JOWETT, Benjamin

JOWETT, Benjamin
(1817-1893)
   Master of Balliol College, Oxford, IDEALIST philosopher and translator of Greek classics, who promoted liberal THEOLOGY in England. He contributed a highly controversial essay titled "The Interpretation of Scripture" to the Victorian theological world in Essays and Reviews (1860).

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