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Clement Charles Julian Webb

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'''Clement Charles Julian Webb''', [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (1865–1954) was an English theologian and philosopher. He was [[Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion]] from 1920 to 1930.

== Early life ==

Webb was born on 25 June 1865, the son of the clergyman [[Benjamin Webb (clergyman)|Benjamin Webb]] and his wife Maria, daughter of the academic [[William Hodge Mill]].<ref name=":0">[[Mark Chapman (theologian)|Mark D. Chapman]], [https://ift.tt/3tDPmlv "Webb, Clement Charles Julian"], ''[[The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (online ed., [[Oxford University Press]], 2007). Retrieved 9 February 2021.</ref> He attended [[Westminster School]] from 1876 to 1884, where he was a [[Queen's Scholar (Westminster School)|queen's scholar]] and the [[School Captain|school captain]]. He then studied [[classics]] at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], from 1884 to 1889; though initially not a spectacular student, he graduated with a first-class degree.<ref name=":0" />

== Academic career ==

Webb was elected to a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|fellowship]] at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], in 1889. He taught at [[New College, Oxford]], initially before taking up a [[tutorship]] at Magdalen in 1890; at the latter, he was also senior [[Dean (education)|dean]] from 1894 to 1897 and vice-president from 1898 to 1899. He served as senior [[proctor]] of the university in 1905–06 and held other administrative positions. In 1911, he was elected [[Wilde Lecturer in Natural and Comparative Religion]] for a period of three years. He was also [[Gifford Lectures|Gifford Lecturer]] at the [[University of Aberdeen]] (1918–19). In 1920, Webb was appointed the inaugural holder of the [[Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion|Nolloth Chair of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion]] at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] (where he was also elected a fellow in 1922). He remained there until he retired in 1930, after which he was the [[Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghosh Lecturer]] at the [[University of Calcutta]] (1930–31), [[Olaus Petri Lecturer]] at [[Uppsala University]] (1932), [[Forwood Lecturer]] at the [[University of Liverpool]] (1933) and [[Lewis Fry Lecturer]] at the [[University of Bristol]] (1934).<ref name=":0" />

Webb received several higher doctorates: the [[Legum Doctor|LLD]] from the [[University of St Andrews]] (1921), the [[Doctor of Letters|DLitt]] from the [[University of Oxford]] (1930), the [[Doctor of Theology|DTheol]] from Uppsala University (1932) and the [[Doctor of Divinity|DD]] from the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1937. He was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] in 1927, and was an honorary fellow of Magdalen College from 1938 and an honorary [[Student (Christ Church)|student]] at Christ Church from 1953. He died on 5 October 1954 at [[Aylesbury]], where he had retired to in the late 1930s. His wife, Eleanor Theodora, ''née'' Joseph (daughter of Rev. Alexander Joseph and sister of the philosopher [[H. W. B. Joseph|Horace Joseph]]) had died in 1942; they had no children.<ref name=":0" />

== Selected works ==

* (editor), St Anselm, ''The Devotions of St Anselm'' (London: Methuen and Co., 1903)
* (editor), John of Salisbury, ''Joannis Saresberiensis Episcopi Carnotensis Policratici sive de Nugis Curialium et Vestigiis Philosophorum libri VIII'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909)
* ''Problems in the Relations of God and Man'' (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1911)
* ''Natural and Comparative Religion'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912)
* ''Studies in the History of Natural Theology'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915)
* ''History of Philosophy'' (Home University Library, 1915)
* ''Group Theories of Religion and the Individual'' (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1916)
* ''In Time of War: Addresses upon Several Occasions'' (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918)
* ''God and Personality'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1918).
* ''Divine Personality and Human Life'' (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1920)
* ''Kant's Philosophy of Religion'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926)
* ''Religion and the Thought of To-Day'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1929)
* ''Pascal's Philosophy of Religion'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929)
* ''John of Salisbury'' (London: Methuen and Co., 1932)
* ''The Contribution of Christianity to Ethics'' (Kolkata: University of Calcutta, 1932)
* ''A Study of Religious Thought in England from 1850'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933)
* ''Religion and Theism'' (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1933)
* ''The Historical Element in Religion'' (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1935)
* ''Religious Experience'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1945)

== References ==


== Further reading ==
* W. D. Ross, "Clement Charles Julian Webb", ''[[Proceedings of the British Academy]]'', vol. 41 (1955), pp. 339–347.

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[[Category:English theologians]]
[[Category:English philosophers]]
[[Category:People educated at Westminster School, London]]
[[Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford]]
[[Category:Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Nolloth Professors of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion]]
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