Eric Lionel Mascall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eric Lionel Mascall

Anglican priest and theologian

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1993

Profession: theologian, Anglican priest, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Eric Lionel Mascall (1905–1993) 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 in most of his writings.Mascall was for many years one of the major figures in British theology and well respected on the Continent and in North America.
He authored more than 20 books, in which he expounded Anglican theology in its most Catholic of forms.
Mascall was arguably the most influential in a group of like-minded theologians, most of whom had predeceased him – Austin Farrer, Gregory Dix, Lionel Thornton and Gabriel Hebert.