Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell

THE present Bishop of Oxford, to his lasting honour, preaching in Christ Church Cathedral, as Dean, in October 1893, exhorted his hearers to praise God for the strenuous ungrudging energy, the hidden bountifulness, the true kind heart, the public spirit, the unworldliness, the deep reserve of strength, which were in Benjamin Jowett [1] . The Regius Greek Professor of the years from 1855 to 1893 had triumphantly lived down' [2] the obloquy which, from conscientious motives, had been commence...