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[German Version] (Sep 1, 1866, Burslem, Staffordshire, UK – Sep 9, 1957, Cambridge, UK), scientist, priest, and from 1931 lecturer in theology at Trinity College, Cambridge. In his work Philosophical Theology (2 vols., 1928–1930) Tennant argues for an “empiricist” teleology. Examination of the “ordo cognoscendi” is the only way to a known “ordo essendi.” Ten-¶ nant was influenced not only by J. Locke and J. Butler but also the genetic psychology of his Cambridge contemporary James Ward. His method embarks from an examination of “the facts,” as deriv…

[German Version] ( Jun 27, 1884 – Jul 19, 1960), influential Anglican theologian, priest of the Community of the Resurrection (Mirfield, Yorkshire) from 1913, lecturer in dogmatic theology at the College of the Resurrection from 1914. In the spirit of lux mundi (Anglo-Catholicism), the first phase of his work, The Incarnate Lord (1928), attempts to reconcile the “organic” philosophy of A.N. Whitehead and others, and an evolutionary understanding of science, with a thoroughly orthodox understanding of the Incarnation. Jesus Christ is “Absolute A…

[German Version] (Jul 26, 1845, Winchester – Jun 8, 1903, Christ Church College, Oxford), liberal High Church Anglican theologian and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, Oxford (1892–1903). Moberly belonged to the circle of theologians around C. Gore, who edited the collection Lux Mundi: A Series of Essays in the Religion of the Incarnation (1889), seeking to mediate between Christian dogma and the theory of evolution in the natural and historical sciences. Moberly's contribution to this volume was “The Incarnation as the Basis of Dogma.” In 1897 ¶ he wrote Ministerial Priesthood …