Eric Lionel Mascall

E. L. Mascall
Born
Eric Lionel Mascall

(1905-12-12)12 December 1905
London, England
Died14 February 1993(1993-02-14) (aged 87)
Seaford, England
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained1933
Academic background
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Academic work
DisciplineTheology
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Eric Lionel Mascall OGS (1905–1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and was Professor of Historical Theology at King's College London (in the University of London). His name was styled as E. L. Mascall in most of his writings.[1]

Mascall was for many years one of the major figures in British theology and well respected on the Continent and in North America. He authored more than 20 books, in which he expounded Anglican theology in its most Catholic of forms. Mascall was arguably the most influential in a group of like-minded theologians, most of whom had predeceased him – Austin Farrer, Gregory Dix, Lionel Thornton and Gabriel Hebert.[2]

  1. ^ Hebblethwaite, Brian ‘Mascall, Eric Lionel (1905–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ^ Obituary: Canon E. L. Mascall Mascall, Eric (17 February 1993). "Canon". The Independent.