Autograph letter signed from John William Colenso, London, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1863 August 8.

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Autograph letter signed from John William Colenso, London, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1863 August 8.

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Also included, two printed letters to Bishop Colenso, one of which is from Abraham Kuenen.

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Colenso, John William, 1814-1883

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John William Colenso, radical biblical critic and bishop in the Church of England, was born in Cornwall on January 24, 1814. Although mathematics was his first love, he was also taken with the study of religion and soon joined the ministry. Named Bishop of Natal in 1853, he went to Africa, where the natives' lives and questions prompted him to take a more radical view of the Bible. As a result of his revolutionary ideas, in 1863 he was excommunicated by Bishop Gray in Capetown. Although this jud...

Kuenen, Abraham, 1828-1891

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