Henry Cadbury

Henry J. Cadbury
Born 1 December 1883
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died 9 October 1974
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality American
Fields New Testament
History of Christianity
Institutions Haverford College
Andover Theological Seminary
Bryn Mawr College
Harvard Divinity School
Alma mater Haverford College
Harvard University
Notable awards Nobel Peace Prize (on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee)

Henry Joel Cadbury (December 1, 1883 October 7, 1974) was a biblical scholar, Quaker historian, writer, and non-profit administrator. A graduate of Haverford College, he was a Quaker throughout his life, though essentially an agnostic.[1] Forced out of his teaching position at Haverford for writing an anti-war letter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in 1918, he saw the experience as a milestone, leading him to larger service beyond his Orthodox Religious Society of Friends. He was offered a position in the Divinity School at Harvard University, from which he had received his Ph.D, but he first rejected its teacher's oath for reasons of conscience, the Quaker insistence on telling the truth, and as a form of social activism. He later accepted the Hollis Professorship of Divinity (1934–1954). He also was the director of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library (1938–1954), and chairman (1928–1934; 1944–1960) of the American Friends Service Committee, which he had helped found in 1917. He delivered the Nobel lecture on behalf of the AFSC when it, together with the British Friends Service Council, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends.

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References

  1. "My Personal Religion", lecture given to Harvard divinity students in 1936.

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