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  John William Colenso - LoveToKnow 1911
JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO (1814-1883), English bishop of Natal, was born at St Austell, Cornwall, on the 24th of January 1814.
Colenso, who had refused to appear before their tribunal otherwise than as sending a protest by proxy, appealed to the privy council, which pronounced that the metropolitan of Cape Town (Robert Gray) had no coercive jurisdiction and no authority to interfere with the bishop of Natal.
Colenso, encouraged by a handsome testimonial raised in England, to which many clergymen subscribed, returned to his diocese, and devoted the latter years of his life to furtherlaboursasa biblical commentator and translator.
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 John William Colenso - Biography
Colenso was born at St Austell, Cornwall, on January 24, 1814.
Colenso, encouraged by a handsome testimonial raised in England, to which many clergymen subscribed, returned to his diocese, and devoted the latter years of his life to further labours as a biblical commentator and translator.
In the film Zulu Dawn Colenso is portrayed sympathetically by Freddy Thomas as as a principled critic of the decision to declare war on Cetshwayo and the Zulus.
encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/12249/John-William-Colenso.html   (544 words)

  
 Colenso, John William - MSN Encarta
Colenso appealed to the judicial committee of the Anglican Church’s Privy Council in London and was acquitted on a technicality.
In the 1870s Colenso opposed the policies of the Afrikaners (Boers) and Cape officials, who were depriving Zulu of their land and rights.
Colenso opposed the policy of Sir Bartle Frere during the Zulu War (1879), but British expansionist policy in South Africa ultimately triumphed and the Zulu were defeated at the Battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879.
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 Janus: Papers of John William Colenso
Colenso's popularity was severely undermined, however, by the stand he took during the rise of troubles between the colonists and the native African population in the 1870s.
Colenso's outspoken stance aroused bitter feelings in the colony, which were further exacerbated by his support for the Zulu king Cetshwayo and his opposition to the invasion of Zululand in 1878 and the subsequent war.
Correspondence of JWC discussing theological matters and details of his church work and life in Natal; a notebook containing copies of letters sent to JWC on theological matters; correspondence arising from the visit of the Reverend James D La Touche to Natal in support of the work of JWC.
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0275/Colenso   (459 words)

  
 John William Colenso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colenso, who had refused to appear before their tribunal otherwise than as sending a protest by proxy, appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
Colenso, encouraged by a handsome testimonial raised in England, to which many clergymen subscribed, returned to his diocese, and devoted the latter years of his life to further labours as a biblical commentator and translator.
In the film Zulu Dawn Colenso is portrayed sympathetically by Freddy Thomas as as a principled critic of the decision to declare war on Cetshwayo and the Zulus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_William_Colenso   (875 words)

  
 Hooker’s Australasian Collectors (New Zealand)
Colenso was ordained as a deacon in 1844 and sent to the mission station in Hawke’s Bay.
Colenso was suspended in 1852 and lived as virtual recluse for about 4 years, apparently a figure of fun among the Maori he had so often lectured about sin and adultery.
Colenso, William Excursion in the northern island of New Zealand : in the summer of 1841–2.
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 William Flamank of St Austell
William Flamank, born in Mitchell Cornwall, was baptised in St Enoder Cornwall on the 22 January 1741 the Eldest Son of John Flamank and Frances Ivey of Summercourt St Enoder.
John Williams Colenso remarried Mary Ann Blackmore in 1811, and they were the parents of Bishop Colenso.
William died on the 18th of October 1810 and was buried on the 21st in St Austell.
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Colenso is undoubtedly right in his observations, and the use of ukukholwa ironically undermines the sola fide understanding of its missionary proponents.
Colenso’s emphasis on the value and importance of natural religion, of the universal operation of conscience, and of the equality of all races and cultures, made for a “cool conversion” in the terms of Berger and Luckmann.
Colenso abandoned his early visions of an alliance with imperial authorities to put a Christian king on the Zulu throne and came to be a fierce defender of Zulu independence and legal rights against the colonialists: first Langalibalele, then Cetshwayo, and then, posthumously through his family, Dinizulu.
www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/religious_studies/SBL2000/draper.doc   (6303 words)

  
 Guide to the John William Colenso Papers (Record Group No. 129): Finding Aid
John William Colenso (1814-1883) was appointed Bishop of Natal, South Africa in 1854.
Colenso appealed to the crown and the judicial committee of privy council declared the whole of Gray's proceedings null and void.
Colenso was an important figure in South African church history, representative of mid-nineteenth century "liberal" Anglican theology; these writings document his thought and the controversies that he aroused.
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/divinity.129.con.html   (991 words)

  
 John William COLENSO, South Africa, Anglican
Colenso was an outspoken and influential advocate of African rights.
Many members of Colenso's family were also active advocates of African causes.
Most notable, perhaps was his daughter, Harriette Colenso (1847-1932), a prolific pamphleteer.
www.dacb.org /stories/southafrica/colenso_john.html   (263 words)

  
 A Globe of Witnesses
On 30th November 1853, John William Colenso was consecrated bishop in the Abbey to serve in the new diocese of Natal in what we now call South Africa.
To his critics, Colenso's answer was that baptism merely confirmed to the Christian what was already the case for every human soul.
The appointment offered Colenso just the platform he desired, giving him the context he needed to demonstrate that what he believed to be true was in fact the case.
www.thewitness.org /agw/chivers112503.html   (1536 words)

  
 Bishop Colenso
Colenso published a critical examination of the Pentateuch which is when his radical theology caused a controversy that shook the Anglican Church in Natal, raising constitutional as well as doctrinal issues.
Colenso returned to England and appealed to the crown with the result that the judicial committee of privy council declared the whole of Bishop Gray's proceedings null and void
The annual 'Colenso Lecture' series on the 'symbolic meaning of the life and work of John Colenso in Natal' was established in 1995, although it was agreed that broader non-theological issues could be discussed.
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 JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO (... - Online Information article about JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO (...
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 John William Colenso - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John William Colenso (1814-1883), obispo anglicano procedente de Natal (Sudáfrica), que convirtió a numerosos zulúes.
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John Coltrane (1926-1967), saxofonista y compositor estadounidense, una de las figuras clave de la música del siglo XX.
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 Colenso
The town of Colenso in South Africa is situated on the banks of the Tugela River and surrounded by the Drakensberg foothills, Colenso was known as Commando Drift before being renamed in honour of the first Bishop of Natal.
John William Colenso was a missionary who translated the New Testament into Zulu...earning the title Sobantu - Father of the People.
Many of the men who fell in the Battle of Colenso, during the Anglo- Boer War, particularly the Irish regiments, are buried here.Take the Weenen/ Colenso off ramp from the R103 (approaching from Estcourt) and turn left to Winterton.
www.south-africa-tours.com /colenso.html   (580 words)

  
 Sermon, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC
In 1853 a thirty-nine year old Englishman named John William Colenso was consecrated bishop of the fairly new diocese of Natal in the eastern part of South Africa.
Colenso attracted sympathy among his flock, but considerable antagonism back in England, by ruling that in such cases it was not necessary for the new Christian to repudiate all except one of the wives.
Colenso's answer, to these and similar conundrums, was developed in an extensive work entitled The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined, published over a period of some seventeen years between 1862 and 1879.
www.rtpnet.org /~cofthec/serms/s03-04/s04feb01.htm   (1503 words)

  
 COLENSO, John William
); - Francis Sitwell, Bishop C. and the Inspiration of Scripture, 1888; - George William Cox, The Life of J. C., Bishop of Natal, 2 Bde., ebd.
1952; - Frances Sarah Colenso, C. Letters from Natal, Pietermaritzburg 1958; - Peter Bingham Hinchliff, The Anglican Chureh in South Africa.
Hans Ausloos, J.W.C. (1814-1883) and the Deuteronomist, in: RB 113.2006, S. Letzte Änderung: 06.10.2006
www.bautz.de /bbkl/c/colenso_j_w.shtml   (429 words)

  
 John Ruskin
John William Colenso was both a linguist and a pioneer of the critical examination of scripture.
John James, who grumbled in his diary about the visits from Winnington girls (`Miss Bell, 5 virgins to strawberries') felt differently about `innocent and loving Rose', as the diary describes her, while Margaret Ruskin took delight in an infant piety that was already a marked part of her character.
John James Ruskin's dinner table was far too lively for the dour John La Touche.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/h/hilton-ruskin.html   (3586 words)

  
 Bishop Colenso and the Literal Truth of the Bible
After investigating the details, as presented in Exodus, of camp life, of sacrifice, of numbers of men and animals-- details all of which, according to contemporary ecclesiastic law, had to be literally true--Bishop Colenso was led to the conviction, painful, he said, both to himself and his reader, that
To feel the force of these words and to understand the anguish they both caused and relieved, it is necessary to realize how widespread was the view, quoted by Colenso, that "The Bible cannot be less that verbally inspired.
The Bible is none other than the word of God -- not some part of it more, some part of it less, but all alike, the utterance of Him, who sitteth upon the Throne -- absolute -- faultless -- unerring -- supreme.
www.victorianweb.org /religion/colenso.html   (421 words)

  
 Anglicans Online | Church History Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John Purchas (1823-1872) was a ritualist leader and liturgist whose important Directorium Anglicanum was digitised earlier this year by AO staff member Peter Owen.
William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) was an American theologian, Civil War veteran and Dean of the School of Theology of the University of the South.
1859-1923) was ordained to the diaconate by missionary bishop John Selwyn in 1890, and to the priesthood in 1903.
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 Gerald Parsons, Department of Religious Studies, The Open University
Bishop John William Colenso (1814-1883) was the first Anglican Bishop of Natal.
A graduate of St.John's College, Cambridge and a Broad Churchman, he was appointed to the newly created diocese of Natal in 1853, as both bishop to the colonists and missionary bishop to the Zulu.
My own research on Bishop Colenso is focused, in particular, upon the coherence of his version of Broad Church theology and upon the extent and significance of his contacts and relationships with Victorian Unitarians.
www.open.ac.uk /Arts/relstud/colenso.htm   (345 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Colenso
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Colenso" at HighBeam.
Colenso BBDO dealt winning hand by CAANZ.(Communication Agencies Association of New Zealand)
The View Across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle Against Imperialism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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 John William Colenso letters. MSS 294   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
John William Colenso, radical biblical critic and bishop in the Church of England, was born in Cornwall on January 24, 1814.
Colenso wrote several books including Commentary of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, and The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined, as well as a grammar and dictionary of Zulu and a Zulu translation of the Prayer Book.
The two letters were written by Colenso during the controversy over his book about the Pentateuch.
www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/mss294.html   (211 words)

  
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John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" (full text)begins Tractarian movement; first of the Tracts for the Times appears.
Conversion of John Henry Newman to Roman Catholicism.
Bishop John William Colenso, The Pentateuch Critically Examined.
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 Stepney
The christening date for John, probably the eldest from the order mentioned in the will, suggests that Phillippa Lewarne is the mother of this family.
There is also a John Calinsoe, of Madron, marrying Bridget Harry, also of Madron, in Paul in 1707.
Unfortunately the records of this era are very patchy and there are not many options – one is John, son of William Calensow born 1607 in St Martin in Meneage.
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 Jonathan A. Draper
The Eye of a Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Interpretation.
In J.A. Draper (ed), The Eye of a Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration.
"The Trial of Bishop John William Colenso", in J.A. Draper (ed), The Eye of a Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration, 306-325.
www.sorat.ukzn.ac.za /theology/staff/draper/default.htm   (2489 words)

  
 The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration:0826470904:Draper, Jonathan A. ...
The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration:0826470904:Draper, Jonathan A. :eCampus.com
Colenso on Myth or Colenso as Myth: A Response to Timothy Larsen
John William Colenso and the Enigma of Polygamy
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 The Witness: Lessons from a Heretic
to the figures of Jeffrey John and Gene Robinson, challenging the outworn conservatism of the contemporary Church.
of one thing, we can be absolutely sure: the call of God's kingdom will always be heard on the outside amongst the Colensos of this world, way beyond the places of faith and security in which we cocoon ourselves.
For it is a call that sounds from a lonely hill beyond the city walls, in the tortured and broken body of the man who hangs there, a man who reminds us that whatever we do to the least of his brethren we do to him.
thewitness.org /article.php?id=531   (1549 words)

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