Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Ledbury and educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. After graduation, he was elected as a Student (fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.

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  • Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Ledbury and educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. After graduation, he was elected as a Student (fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. In 1884, he left Oxford for St Paul's Cathedral where he was appointed canon. He was keenly interested in social justice and formed PESEK (Politics, Economics, Socialism, Ethics and Christianity) which blamed capitalist exploitation for contemporary urban poverty. In 1889, he formed the Christian Social Union. In 1910, he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, a post he held until his death in 1918. He is buried in the churchyard of All Saints church, Cuddesdon in Oxford. For obvious reasons, Mary Gladstone referred to him affectionately as "Flying Dutchman" and "Fliegende Hollander". While at St Paul’s Cathedral Holland delivered a sermon in May 1910 following the death of King Edward VII, titled The King of Terrors, in which he explores the natural but seemingly contradictory responses to death: the fear of the unexplained and the belief in continuity. It is from his discussion of the latter that perhaps his best-known writing, Death is nothing at all, is drawn: The frequent use of this passage has provoked some criticism that it fails to accurately reflect either Holland's theology as a whole, or the focus of the sermon in particular.
  • Henry Scott Holland war Regius Professor of Divinity an der Universität von Oxford. Er lehrte Philosophie und Religion und veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schriften zu diesen Themen. Holland war Domherr der Christ Church Cathedral.
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  • 1911—1918
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  • Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Ledbury and educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. After graduation, he was elected as a Student (fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.
  • Henry Scott Holland war Regius Professor of Divinity an der Universität von Oxford. Er lehrte Philosophie und Religion und veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schriften zu diesen Themen. Holland war Domherr der Christ Church Cathedral.
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  • Henry Scott Holland
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