Papers and letters concerning the lay Christian ecumenical society 'The Moot' 1939

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969

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Epithet: Editor `The Christian News-Letter' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x00012b Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, pioneer of ecumenical missionary and social concern, was born in 1874 of Scottish parents in India. He was educated in Edinburgh and at Oxford from where he graduated in 1896. A religious conversion prompted Oldham to travel to India in 1897 to work with the YMCA where he stayed fo...

Moot

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'The Moot' was a lay Christian ecumenical society formed during 1939 largely on the initiative of the ecumenist, Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1874-1969),an Oxford graduate who was converted under the preaching of D.L. Moody. In 1939 Oldham had established the short-lived Council on the Christian Faith and the Common Life with a view to encouraging the adoption of a Christian sociology in Britain, but, as he explains in the introduction to his Christian Newsletter Book The Resurrection of Christend...

Council on the Christian Faith and the Common Life

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