Cecil John Cadoux (1883 – 16 August 1947) was a British Christian theologian and writer.

Career

He was born in Smyrna (Turkey), the third son of William H. Cadoux and Emma Temple Cadoux. He was a student at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he was appointed (1914) Isherwood Fellow and Lecturer in Hebrew. He moved to the Yorkshire United Independent College at Shipley, in 1919, as professor of New Testament Criticism, Exegesis and Theology and of Christian Sociology. In 1933 he returned to Oxford as Mackennal professor of Church History and vice-principal of Mansfield College.

He was a Congregationalist.[1][2] Linked also to the Quakers, he participated to the Friends' Ambulance Unit as a conscientious objector in the First World War. He wrote many books on Christian Pacifism, including Christian Pacifism Re-examined (1940). During the Second World War Cadoux's two sons became conscientious objectors, and also served in the FAU.[3]

He married Marguerite Asplin. At the time of his death, Cadoux was considering to write a book on the humane treatment of animals. He was a strict vegetarian.[4]

He died on 16 August 1947 at his home in Oxford.[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Sell, Alan P. F. (10 May 2013). The Theological Education of the Ministry: Soundings in the British Reformed and Dissenting Traditions. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 9781620325933.
  2. ^ Mandelbrote, Scott; Ledger-Lomas, Michael (October 2013). Dissent and the Bible in Britain, C.1650-1950. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-960841-6.
  3. ^ Elaine Kaye, C.J. Cadoux : theologist, scholar and pacifist. Edinburgh University Press, 1988. ISBN 085224603X (pp. 166-75)
  4. ^ a b Cadoux, Cecil John (1883–1947). oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

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