Henry Scott Holland (January 27, 1847 - March 17, 1918) is the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. He is also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. The Scott Holland Memorial Lectures was held in his memory.
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Family and education
He was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, son of George Henry Holland (1818-1891) from Dumbleton Hall, Evesham, and Hon. Charlotte Dorothy Gifford, daughter of Lord Gifford. He was educated at Eton where he was a student of influential Master William Johnson Cory, and at Balliol College at Oxford University where he took a first class degree in the Greats. During Oxford time he was greatly influenced by T.H. Green. He has a level of Oxford DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt.
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Religious and political activities
After graduation, he was elected as a Student (colleague) from Christ Church, Oxford. In 1884, he left Oxford to St Paul's Cathedral where he was designated as a canon.
He was very interested in social justice and shaped the PESEK (Politics, Economics, Socialism, Ethics and Christian) who blamed capitalist exploitation for contemporary urban poverty. In 1889, he formed the Christian Social Union.
In 1910, he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, a post he held until his death in 1918. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Cuddesdon near Oxford. Because of her family name, Mary Gladstone called it lovingly as "Flying Dutchman" and Fliegende Hollander .
While at St. Paul's Cathedral Holland delivered a sermon in May 1910 after the death of King Edward VII, entitled Death of the King of Terror , in which he explored the natural response but seemed to contradict death: the unexplained fear and conviction continuity. From his discussion of the latter perhaps his most famous writings, Death there is nothing , drawn:
Death is nothing. It does not count. I just sneak into the next room. Nothing happens. Everything stays exactly like that. I am I, and you are you, and the old life we ​​live with is lovingly untouched, unchanging. Whatever we are to each other, we are alive. Call me by the old familiar name. Talk to me the easy way you always use. There is no difference in your tone. No need to impose sadness or sadness. Laugh as we always laugh at the little jokes we enjoy together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be a household word that is always there. Let it be uttered without effort, without the shadow of the ghost on it. Life means everything that ever means anything. It's the same as it used to be. There is absolute and uninterrupted continuity. What is this death, but a meaningless accident? Why should I get out of my mind because I'm invisible? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very close, just round the corner. Everything is fine. No one was hurt; nothing is missing. One brief moment and everything will be like before. How are we going to laugh at the trouble of separation when we meet again!
The frequent use of this passage has led to several critics failing to accurately reflect Dutch theology as a whole, or the focus of the sermon in particular. What does not provoke much criticism is the affinity of the Dutch part for St. Augustine's thought in his 4th-century letter 263 to Sapida, where he writes that Sapida's brother and their love, even though he died, still exist, as gold is still yours even if you keep it in some lockers.
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Source
- George William Erskine Russell, Prime Minister and Some Others, available at [1]
- The obituary Times
External links
- The work by Henry Scott Holland in Faded Page (Canada)
- Henry S. Holland (in Spartacus Educational)
- Works by or about Henry Scott Holland in the Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Scott Holland on LibriVox (public domain audiobook)
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