Leslie Weatherhead
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Leslie Dixon Weatherhead (1893-1976) was an English Christian theologian in the liberal Protestant tradition. Renowned as one of Britain's finest preachers in his day, Weatherhead was noted for his preaching ministry at City Temple in London and for his books, including The Will of God, The Christian Agnostic and Psychology, Religion, and Healing.
Weatherhead trained for the Methodist Ministry at Richmond Theological College, in south-west London. The first world war cut short his training, and he became Methodist Minister at Farnham, Surrey, in September 1915. After serving in India, Manchester, and Leeds, Weatherhead was called, as a Methodist Minister, to be Minister of the City Temple, a Congregational Church on Holborn Viaduct in London. He served there from 1936 until his retirement in 1960. From 1930 till 1939 Weatherhead was a member of Dr Frank Buchman's Oxford Group and wrote several books directed at the group values. [Will of God Discipleship] He often symbolized the "head" of the Oxford Group London.
His book This is the Victory was first printed in 1940 (preface dated November 1940) and reprinted in March 1942. In the space of time between these two editions, the City Temple was "gutted by fire from incendiary bombs dropped from enemy aeroplanes". He was able to continue his ministry thanks to the nearby St Sepulchre church. After the war, Weatherhead raised the funds to rebuild the City Temple, largely from John D. Rockefeller. The City Temple stands to this day and is a congregation of the United Reformed Church.
Weatherhead served as President of the Methodist conference in 1953. The re-built City Temple was opened in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II in 1958. In 1960, Weatherhead retired to live at Bexhill-on-Sea. He died in 1976.
His son A. Kingsley Weatherhead, a professor of English, wrote Leslie Weatherhead: A Personal Portrait. At least three other biographies of Leslie Weatherhead have appeared since his death, most recently in 1999 Doctor of Souls: Leslie Dixon Weatherhead by John C. Travell ( ISBN 9780718829919 ).
Notable Weatherhead quotations include:
- "The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is disobedience."
- "The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing."
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Weatherhead wrote many books, including:
- After Death (1923).
- The Transforming Friendship (1929).
- " How Can I Find God?" (1934).
- Why Do Men Suffer? (1935).
- It Happened in Palestine (1936).
- This is Victory (1940).
- In Quest Of A Kingdom (1944).
- The Will of God (1944).
- Psychology, Religion, and Healing (1951).
- Over His Own Signature (1955).
- A Private House of Prayer (1958).
- The Resurrection of Christ in the Light of Modern Science and Psychical Research (1959).
- Salute To a Sufferer (1962).
- The Christian Agnostic (1965).Wikiquote: The Christian Agnostic
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