T R Glover

T R Glover became a leading British scholar of his day on the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and for many years was Public Orator of Cambridge University. His active life supporting the Baptist church led him to become well known for his books on Jesus and the early church on which he brought to bear his considerable intellectual and cultural gifts. He is probably best known today for his book 'The Jesus of History'. This book, Glover's 'Vocation', was published as a booklet...See more

T R Glover became a leading British scholar of his day on the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and for many years was Public Orator of Cambridge University. His active life supporting the Baptist church led him to become well known for his books on Jesus and the early church on which he brought to bear his considerable intellectual and cultural gifts. He is probably best known today for his book 'The Jesus of History'. This book, Glover's 'Vocation', was published as a booklet for the Student Christian Movement in 1913 and today copies of the pamphlet are almost impossible to come across, even through online library catalogues. R M Parry has established The Library at Llantwit, an energetic cultural mission to the UK based in Llantwit Major, South Wales. The initiative engages with popular thought and the religious situation of our times, opening resources and encouragement for the spiritual aspirations of people and churches that struggle to find a place in the culture of modern Britain. The Library explores relational Christian traditions in ways that are community based, intellectually vibrant, culturally alive and open to inter-faith dialogue. It is a joyful, fresh path in British faith culture presenting the public offer which is not a middle way, but a deeper way. Edwin Counsell is Rector of the Glamorgan Coast Heritage Parish in South Wales Howard Worsley is Vice-Principal of Trinity Theological College, Bristol See less