Select Works of William Temple (11 vols.)

by William Temple

Publishers:

Penguin; Macmillan and Co.; Longmans, Green, and Co.

, 1911–1960

Overview

William Temple eventually followed his father, Frederick, to the position of archbishop of Canterbury. Like his father, he was a natural academic. He was educated at the boarding school his father had directed, and like his father, graduated from Oxford with a double first. Also like his father, William Temple went into education, spending five years as the headmaster of Repton School. He also shared his father’s vision for a united Church and cooperation between Christians. He was a member of the labour party and a fierce advocate for social justice. He was the first president of the Workers Educational Association and he believed the Church has a key role to play in bettering society.

William Temple was ordained in 1909. His 35 years of ministry spanned both world wars, during a time when a global society was a new and malleable concept. Throughout his life, William Temple wrote about the relationship of Christian faith with society, the state, philosophy, human nature, and the global community. This collection gathers many of his philosophical works discussing these subjects, including Christianity and the Social Order—advocating socialism from a Christian perspective, Christianity and the State—laying out his religious political philosophy, and his longest work, Mens Creatrix—detailing how all of mankind’s creative energies culminate in Christian revelation.

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Key Features

• Gathers 11 of William Temple’s philosophical works
• Contains early-twentieth-century perspective on the church’s roll in the global community
• Includes the popular Christianity and the Social Order, advocating Christian socialism

Product Details

• Title: Select Works of William Temple
• Author: William Temple
• Volumes: 11
• Pages: 2,890

Christianity and the Social Order

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1942
• Pages: 128

This volume contains William Temple’s Christianity and the Social Order.

Christianity and the State

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1928
• Pages: 220

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Contents

• General Considerations
• Historic Theories of the State
• The State in Its Internal Relations
• The State in Its External Relations
• Appendix

Christus Veritas

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1924
• Pages: 302

This volume contains William Temple’s Christus Veritas.

Church and Nation

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1915
• Pages: 230

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Contents:

• The Kingdom of Freedom
• Church and State
• Justice and Liberty in the State
• Holiness and Catholicity in the Church
• The Citizenship of Heaven
• God in History
• On the Apocalyptic Consciousness
• On Moral and Spiritual Authority
• On Justice and Education
• On Orders and Catholicity
• On Providence in History

Fellowship with God

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1920
• Pages: 264

Contents:

• The Secret of Peace
• Sacrament and Miracle
• “Inasmuch”
• The Essence of Idolatry
• The Eternal God
• All Saints’ Day
• The Comforter
• The Work of the Comforter
• The Exalted Christ and the Coming of the Spirit
• The Spirit and the Word
• The Holy Spirit and the Blessed Trinity
• God’s Call to the Church
• Priesthood
• The Christian Sacrifice
• More than Conquerors
• The Peace of God
• Triumphant Sacrifice
• Other Worldliness
• The Philosophy of the Incarnation

Mens Creatrix

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan and Co.
• Publication Date: 1949
• Pages: 392

Contents:

• Prologue
• Man’s Search
• Art
• Conduct
• Religion
• God’s Act
• Epilogue

Nature, Man and God

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMillan & Co.
• Publication Date: 1960
• Pages: 562

This volume contains William Temple’s Nature, Man and God.

Personal Religion and the Life of Fellowship

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
• Publication Date: 1926
• Pages: 400

This volume contains William Temple’s Personal Religion and the Life of Fellowship.

Plato and Christianity

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMilland and Co.
• Publication Date: 1916
• Pages: 122

This volume contains William Temple’s Plato and Christianity.

Readings in St. John’s Gospel

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMilland and Co.
• Publication Date: 1959
• Pages: 412

This volume contains William Temple’s Readings in St. John’s Gospel.

The Nature of Personality

• Author: William Temple
• Publisher: MacMilland and Co.
• Publication Date: 1911
• Pages: 160

Contents:

• Materialism and Agnosticism
• Thing, Brute, and Person
• Rights and Duties: Determinism and Individuality
• The Will and Its Freedom
• Original Sin and Moral Duty
• Duty and Society
• Personality and the Time-Process: The Social Purpose
• The Triune Personality of God

About William Temple

William Temple (1881–1944) was archbishop of Canterubry from 1942 to 1944. His father was archbishop of Canterbury before him. He attended the Rugby School as a boy, and Balliol College, Oxford. He earned a double first in classics and was president of the Oxford Union. Ordained in 1909, he was headmaster at Repton school for five years before returning to full-time ministry as Bishop of Manchester. He was elevated to archbishop of York in 1929. During World War II he founded the Council of Christians and Jews to combat anti-Semitism in Britain. He died in 1944 and became the first Primate of the Church to be cremated. Temple is honored in the Calendar of the Church on November 6.