CAMBRIDGE VICAR

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 16

CAMBRIDGE VICAR

Open Lectures At University

Canon H. Montefiore. vicar of Great St. Margaret’s Church in Cambridge, England. which caters for “town and gown,” arrived in Christchurch yesterday on his first visit to New Zealand. Canon Montefiore is here mainly to speak to university students, but he will be taking the evening services at the Cathedral tomorrow and next Sunday. There will also be four open lectures at 1.10 p.m. in the University Hall on Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, and Friday on the theme of “Religion —true and false: a critical look at Christianity.” On Thursday he will lecture in Room si at 11am. Most of Canon Montefiore's week in Christchurch will be occupied in lecturing, preaching, meeting university staff, clergy, and religious bodies. On June 27 he will travel to Dunedin then to the North Island where he will spend most of next month. Canon Montefiore is Canon Theologian of Coventry Cathedral, with which he has been connected since its consecration six or seven years ago. He was formerly Fellow and Dean of Gonville and Gaius College, Cambridge, and a university lecturer in divinity, dealing particularly with the New Testament. As well as being the author of such popular books as “Beyond Reasonable Doubt,” and "Awkward Questions on Christian Love,” Canon Montefiore has written commentaries on the Epistles to the Hebrews. St Thomas’s Gospel, and the writings of Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian.

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