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Henry

Parry Liddon (1829–1890), also

known as H. P. Liddon, was an English theologian. From 1870 to

1882, he was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at

the University of Oxford. The

son of a naval captain, Liddon was born on 20 August 1829 at North Stoneham, near Eastleigh, Hampshire. He was educated at King's College School, and

at Christ Church, Oxford,

where he graduated, taking a second class, in 1850. As vice principal of

the theological college at Cuddesdon (1854–1859) he wielded considerable influence,

and, on returning to Oxford as vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, became a

force among the undergraduates, exercising his influence in opposition to the

liberal reaction against Tractarianism, which had set in after John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism in 1845. In

1864 Walter Kerr Hamilton,

the Bishop of Salisbury, whose

examining chaplain Liddon had been, appointed him prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral. In

1866 he delivered his Bampton Lectures on the doctrine of the divinity of Christ,

published as The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (1867).

From that time his fame as a preacher was established. In 1870 he was made canon

of St Paul's Cathedral,

London. He had before this published Some Words for God against

the scepticism of the day. His preaching at St Paul's soon attracted vast

crowds. The afternoon sermon, which fell to the canon in residence, had usually

been delivered in the choir, but soon after Liddon's appointment it became

necessary to preach the sermon under the dome, where from 3000 to 4000 persons

used to gather to hear him. Liddon was praised for grasp of his subject,

clarity and lucidity, use of illustration, vividness of imagination, elegance

of diction, and sympathy with the intellectual position of those whom he

addressed. In the arrangement of his material, he is thought to have imitated

the French preachers of the age of Louis XIV. In 1870 Liddon

had also been made Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford. The combination of

the two appointments gave him extensive influence over the Church of England. With Dean Church he restored the influence of the Tractarian

school, and he succeeded in popularising the opinions which, in the hands

of Edward Bouverie Pusey and John Keble, had appealed to thinkers and scholars. His Act of 1874, and denounced the Bulgarian atrocities

of 1876. In 1882 he resigned his professorship and travelled in Palestine and Egypt;

and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Döllinger at Munich. In 1886, he became chancellor of St Paul's, and

declined more than one offer of a bishopric. Liddon was a friend of Lewis Carroll, who accompanied him on a trip to Moscow where

Liddon made approaches to leading Russian Orthodox clergy, seeking closer links between

them and the Church of England. He

died on 9 September 1890 at the height of his reputation, having nearly completed

a biography of Pusey, whom he admired; this work was completed after his death

by John Octavius Johnston and Robert Wilson. Liddon's

influence during his life was due to his personal fascination and his pulpit

oratory rather than to his intellect. As a theologian his outlook was

old-fashioned; to the last he maintained the narrow standpoint of Pusey and

Keble, in defiance of modern thought and modern scholarship. The publication in

1889 of Lux Mundi edited

by Charles Gore, a series of

essays attempting to harmonise Anglican Catholic doctrine with modern thought, showed

that even at Pusey House, established

as the citadel of Puseyism at Oxford, the principles of Pusey were being

departed from. He was the last of the classical pulpit orators of the English

Church, the last great popular exponent of the traditional Anglican orthodoxy,

with the exception of John Charles Ryle (1816-1900),

the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool (1880-1900). 

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