Kirsopp Lake

thumb|Kirsopp Lake in later life Kirsopp Lake (7 April 1872 – 10 November 1946) was a New Testament scholar and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He had an uncommon breadth of interests, publishing definitive monographs in New Testament textual criticism, Greek palaeography, theology, and archaeology. He is probably best known for the massive five-volume work The Beginnings of Christianity—an edition, translation, commentary, and study of the Acts of Apostles—that he conceived and edited with F. J. Foakes-Jackson. Quotes [B]y the end of the nineteenth century... ...a rapid change had set in. Men were no longer convinced that the writers of Scripture knew more about a future life than they did themselves. Historical criticism began to suggest that writers who were far from infallible in their descriptions of the past were not wholly to be trusted in their prognostications of the future." Immortality and the Modern Mind Category:Academics from England Category:1872 births Category:1946 deaths Category:Theologians from England Category:Historians from England Category:Educators from England Category:Clergy Category:Anglicans from the United States Category:People from Southampton Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Harvard University faculty Category:Immigrants to the United States