THREE DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 9

THREE DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS

A 'cablegram published in The Dominion a few days ago announced that tho Bishop of Southwark (Dr. Talbot) had been appointed Bishop of Winchester .in succession to Bishop Rylo, who had accepted.tho Deanery, of. Westminster, tho lato Dean. (Dr.' Armitage Robinson) having for health reasons retired from Westminster in order to take tlie- less strenuous 'office of Dean of Wells. Each of these- thrco Churchmen is a very distinguished modem scholar. Bishop Rylo has made a name for himself as one of tho leaders of the English School of Old Testament criticism, and Dr; Armitage Robinson ■is equally famous as a New Testament scholar. Both adopt the method of historical; investigation which' has becomo known as the higher criticism. The new' Bishop of ■ Winchester (Dr. Talbot) has come to the front in a different lino of scholarship; lir is a High - Churchman of broad - and liberal views and a.Christian Socialist.' He is, one of that able,band,of scholars who have done so much to readjust and reinterpret the Christian faith in the light of modem thought. ; He was ono of the contributors to tho volume- of Oxford Essays published under tho title of "Lux Jlundi," which caused great controversy som'o years ago, and lio is tho author of one of tho. Pan-Anglican papers on the "Christian Revelation and the Similar Claims of Other Keligions." He was made Bishop of RoI Chester in' 1895, and during his cpiscopo that hugo diocese was divided into two I parts — the present sees of Rochester and Southwark —and ho became the first Bishop of Southwark.