Eric Lionel Mascall

Eric Lionel Mascall OGS (12 December 1905 – 14 February 1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and was Professor of Historical Theology at King's College London (in the University of London). His name was styled as E.L. Mascall on most of his writings.

Life

Mascall was the son of John Mascall and his wife Susan. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Ely Theological College.

After a period as a schoolmaster (before theological college) he was ordained priest in 1933 and spent some years as a curate in various parishes in the Diocese of London, including St Matthew's Westminster. Subsequently he taught theology at Lincoln Theological College and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1962 he became Professor of Historical Theology at King's College, London and followed this appointment by a period as Canon Theologian of Truro Cathedral.

Intellectual interests

Mascall was an Anglo-Catholic and took the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. He was active in relations between the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Sources

• Biographical memoir by H .P. Owen; published in Proceedings of the British Academy 84 , 409-418

Further reading

• Mascall, Rev. Canon; Eric Lionel (b. Seaford, East Sussex 12 December 1905 - d. 14 February 1993). Who's Who 2006 and Who Was Who 1897-2005 (2005).
• Hebblethwaite, Brian ‘Mascall, Eric Lionel (1905–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Mascall, E. L. (1992) Saraband: the memoirs of E. L. Mascall. Leominster: Gracewing

External links

• Eric Mascall's essay Women Priests?
• The Openness of Being, 1970-71 Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh.
• The Christian Universe, by Eric Mascall (The Boyle Lecture, 1965.)