Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Pages faces are very good. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> HERE are many nineteenth century personali ties” ties” wrote recent reviewer “whose lives and a characters are nowadays due for a revaluation.” There are few to whom this remark could be more fitly applied than Bishop Lightfoot of whom The Times wrote on the morrow of his death: “The Church of England has been too soon deprived of one of the greatest minds by whom it has been served and adorned not only in this generation but in its whole history…. He was at once one of the greatest Theological scholars and an eminent Bishop. It is scarcely possible to estimate adequately as yet the influence of his life and work”. It is the object of this book to preserve some knowledge of the personality of Lightfoot while there yet survive some of those who knew him intimately both at Durham and elsewhere. There are happily several chance references to him in the biographies of his lifelong friends Archbishop Benson and Bishop Westcott his successor and such (SP)