N. P. Williams

Norman Powell Williams (1883–1943), known as N. P. Williams, was an English Anglo-Catholic theologian and priest. Educated at Durham School and at Christ Church, Oxford, he enjoyed a succession of appointments at that university: Fellow of Magdalen (1906), Chaplain of Exeter (1909), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church (1927).[2] In 1924 he was Bampton lecturer.[2]

The Reverend

N. P. Williams
Born
Norman Powell Williams

(1883-09-05)5 September 1883[1]
Durham, England[1]
Died11 May 1943(1943-05-11) (aged 59)[2]
Oxford, England[2]
Spouse(s)
Muriel de Lérisson
(
m. 1927)
[1]
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 1908 (deacon)[2]
  • 1909 (priest)[2]
Academic background
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
School or traditionLiberal Anglo-Catholicism[2]
Institutions

His 1924 Bampton Lectures were published in 1929 under the title The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin, which continues to be an influential source for students of original sin to this day.

Selected works
  • The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin (Bampton Lectures 1924), 1927
  • The Grace of God, 1930
  • Sermons and Addresses, Compiled with a Memoir, SPCK, 1954
  • Northern Catholicism; ed. by N. P. Williams & Charles Harris. London. S.P.C.K., 1933
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References

Footnotes
  1. Kemp 2004; "Williams, Rev. Norman Powell" 2007.
  2. Kemp 2004.

Bibliography
Kemp, E. W. (2004). "Williams, Norman Powell (1883–1943)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36927.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
"Williams, Rev. Norman Powell". Who Was Who. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U233496.

Further reading
Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2005). "Williams, Norman Powell". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (rev. 3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Kemp, E. W., ed. (1954). N.P. Williams: Sermons and Addresses, Compiled with a Memoir. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Walter Lock		 Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity
1927–1943		 Succeeded by
F. L. Cross


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