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Gilbert T. Sadler
View on WikipediaGilbert Thomas Sadler (27 September 1871 - 17 July 1939), best known as Gilbert T. Sadler, was a British Congregational minister and writer.
Biography
[edit]Sadler was born in China, he was the son of English missionary Rev. G. Sadler, of Amoy.[1][2] He was educated at Mansfield College, Oxford.[1] Sadler obtained an M.A. in theology from University of Oxford and a B.A. and LL.B. from London University.[2] He was assistant minister to Rev. John Daniel Jones in Lincoln, 1895.[1] He was pastor of Chester Street Congregational Church, Wrexham (1897-1904) .[2]
His book The Relation of Custom to Law (1919) was reviewed in several law journals.[3][4][5]
Christ myth theory
[edit]Sadler was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[6][7] New Testament scholar Craig A. Evans has noted that Sadler's ideas resemble those of William Benjamin Smith.[8]
Publications
[edit]- The Inadequacy of the World's Religions (1871)
- The Inner Meaning of the Four Gospels (1871)
- What Can We Believe? (1905)
- Short Introduction to the Bible (1911)
- Has Jesus Christ Lived on Earth? (1914)
- The Origin and Meaning of Christianity (1916)
- Reason - Love - Vision (1919)
- The Gnostic Story of Jesus Christ (1919)
- The Relation of Custom to Law (1919)
- Behind the New Testament (1921)
- Our Enemy, the State (1922)
- The Roman Praetors (1922)
- The Choice Before the World Today (1923)
- The Fellowship Of Humanity By Reason, Love And Freedom (1923)
- The Husk And The Kernel Of The Pauline Gospel (1923)
- The Law Or the Spirit (1924)
- World-History in a Nutshell (1924)
- A New World by a New Vision (1925)
- What Is Wrong With The Churches? (1929)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cleal, Edward E. (1908). The Story of Congregationalism in Surrey. London: James Clarke & Co. pp. 327-328
- ^ a b c Guppy, Henry. (1970). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Volume 52. Manchester University Press. p. 5
- ^ Hart, James. (1920). Reviewed Work: The Relation of Custom to Law by Gilbert T. Sadler. Virginia Law Review 7 (3): 241-244.
- ^ Husik, Isaac. (1920). Reviewed Work: The Relation of Custom to Law by Gilbert T. Sadler. University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register 68 (3): 304-305.
- ^ Llewellyn, Karl. (1920). Reviewed Work: The Relation of Custom to Law by Gilbert T. Sadler. Yale Law Journal 29 (3): 368.
- ^ A. F. (1917). Reviewed Work: The Origin and Meaning of Christianity by Gilbert T. Sadler. International Journal of Ethics 28 (1): 131-132.
- ^ "The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present". Arthur Drews (1865-1935).
- ^ Evans, Craig A. (2004). The Historical Jesus. Volume 1. Routledge. p. 320. ISBN 0-415-32751-2
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