The conventional picture of Benjamin Jowett (1817-93) is of the
outstanding educator, the famous master of Balliol College, Oxford,
whose pupils were extremely influential in the public life of
Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, he
is also recognized as a theologian since he contributed an essay
'On the Interpretation of Scripture' to Essays and Reviews, a
collection published in 1860; the book's liberalism aroused great
controversy, and it was eventually synodically condemned in 1864.
It has been thought that having got into trouble over his essay,
Jowett abandoned theology and became a purely secular figure. This
book attempts to identify the ideas which caused Jowett to develop
his theology, the thinkers who influenced him and how his own
religious ideas evolved. It argues that, after the Essays and
Reviews controversy, he deliberately chose to disseminate those
ideas through the college of which he became master. It also shows
how he influenced other religious thinkers and theologians of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that he was
more important in the history of English theology than is usually
recognized.
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