British ecclesiastical historian and archaeologist (1916–2005)
W. H. C. Frend
Born William Hugh Clifford Frend
(1916-01-11 ) 11 January 1916Died 1 August 2005(2005-08-01) (aged 89) Political party Liberal Spouse Ecclesiastical career Religion Christianity (Anglican ) Church Ordained 1982 (deacon) 1983 (priest) Academic background Education Academic work Discipline History Sub-discipline Ecclesiastical history Institutions Influenced Peter Brown Military career Service British Army Unit Queen's Royal Regiment
William Hugh Clifford Frend FSA FRSE FRHistS FBA ecclesiastical historian , archaeologist, andAnglican priest .
Haileybury College (scholar)Keble College ,Oxford (scholar, BA first class in modern history 1937,MA 1951, DPhil with thesis on Donatists 1940, DD 1966)Craven Scholarship to study in Berlin (with Hans Lietzmann) and North Africa Research fellowship atUniversity of Nottingham Associate Director,Egypt Exploration Society , Q'asr Ibrim, Nubia 1963–64 Bye Fellow ofGonville and Caius College ,Cambridge (BD 1964) Fellow anduniversity lecturer indivinity . During this timeCharles III , then reading archaeology and anthropology atTrinity , was one of his students. Professor of Ecclesiastical History , and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, in theUniversity of Glasgow 1969–84 (Emeritus 1984–2005)Chairman,Association of University Teachers 1976–78 Frend once stood for local government asLiberal Party candidate in Cambridge In the 1980s he worked at Carthage with a team from theUniversity of Michigan In retirement was again elected Bye Fellow ofCaius and in his last years wrote a new book about the early life of Augustine Assistant Principal, War Office 1940 Seconded to Cabinet Office and served on Committees for Allied Supplies and the Free French Liaison officer, Psychological Warfare Branch, Tunis Service in Austria for 18 months Italy Commissioned officer ,Queen's Royal Regiment 1947–67Frend inclined towards thelow church tradition. He was a sometimes reluctant liberal who cautiously supported theordination of women but criticised BishopDavid Jenkins of Durham over his non-traditional ideas about Christmas. He was considered a good and humble pastor and an enlightening, if theologically unconventional, preacher.
Frend was married to Mary Grace (née Crook; 1951–2002). They had one son, Simon, and one daughter, Sally. His father was a priest ofhigh church persuasion.
The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (1951)Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (1965)The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972)The Rise of Christianity (1984)The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa , 1951Early Church , 1964Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church , 1965Saints & Sinners in the Early Church: Differing & Conflicting Traditions in the First Six Centuries , 1970The Rise of the Monophysite Movement , 1972Religion, Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries , 1976Town and Country in the Early Christian Centuries , 1980The Rise of Christianity , 1984Archaeology and History in the Study of Early Christianity , 1988The Archaeology of Early Christianity: A History , 1996Orthodoxy, Paganism and Dissent in the Early Christian Centuries , 2002From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed , 2003Works co-authored with J. Stevenson [ edit ] A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337 Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church, AD 337–461
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