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Bezzant/E/1/8
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- Circa 1954-1965 (Creation)
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1 file; paper
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Bezzant was educated privately and at Pembroke College, Oxford. He graduated in Modern History in 1921, and took a First Class in Theology in 1923. From 1925 to 1933 Bezzant was Vice-Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, while also serving as Chaplain and Lecturer of Exeter College, and Tutor in Theology at Pembroke College. In 1933 he moved to Liverpool as Canon Residentiary and Chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral, holding both posts until 1952. Bezzant was Select Preacher at both Cambridge and Oxford, served as an Examining Chaplain to various Bishops, and as an Examiner in Theology at London and Oxford. He spent several periods of residence in the United States as a lecturer. During the War, Bezzant served as Chaplain in the R.N.V.R. In 1952 he was elected to a Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, and became Dean. From 1953 to 1964 he served as University Lecturer in Divinity. He published various theological monographs and articles and died in 1967.
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This file contains articles, by Bezzant and others, in offprint and cutting form. They are sequenced according to their listing on the accompanying envelope, as follows.
J.S. Bezzant, 'Eschatology', review of John A.T. Robinson's 'Jesus and His Coming' (unknown journal)
J.S. Bezzant, 'Sin and Infant Baptism' ('Theology', 473, November 1959)
John Burnaby, 'Original Sin' ('Theology', 463, January 1959)
J.S. Bezzant, review of John Burnaby's 'The Belief of Christendom' ('The Cambridge Review', 6 June 1959)
B.M.G Reardon, 'Demythologizing and Catholic Modernism' and John Macquarrie, 'A New Kind of Demythologizing?' ('Theology', 437, November 1956)
John Burnaby, 'Bible and Dogma' ('Christian Quarterly Review', 159, April-June 1958)
J.S. Bezzant, '"De-Mythologizing" the Gospel' ('Theology', 408, June 1954)
Leonard Hodgson, 'A Nine Days' Wonder' (unknown journal)
J.S. Bezzant, 'The Synoptic Gospels and Sceptical Credulity', review of F.W. Beare's 'The Earliest Records of Jesus' (unknown journal)
J.S. Bezzant, review of W. Norman Pittenger's 'The Word Incarnate' (unknown journal)
John Burnaby, 'Whosoever Will' and J.S. Bezzant, review of F.R. Tennant's 'Philosophical Theology' ('Theology', 504, June 1962)
J.S. Bezzant, review of Ronald Hepburn et al.'s 'Objections to Humanism' ('Prism', February 1964)
J.S. Bezzant, review of the Bishop of Woolwich's 'The New Reformation?', D.T. Niles's 'We Know in Part' and Monica Furlong's 'With Love to the Church' (unknown publication)
Hugo Meynell, 'Gospel without God' ('Theology', 542, August 1965)
Cyril Hinshelwood, 'Science and scientists' ('The Listener', 74, 2 September 1965)