Ernest Gordon Rupp, (Born January 7, 1910 in London)-(Died December 19,1986 in Cambridge, England). was a Methodist preacher, historian and Luther scholar.^[1] London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ... This article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Preacher is a colloquial term for a clergyman, in particular a local priest, pastor or Minister; one who preaches. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... For other people named Martin Luther, see Martin Luther (disambiguation). ...

Early Life and Education

Rupp attended Owen's School in Islington area of London.^[2] He studied history at King's College in London^[3], theology at Cambridge's Wesley House, and in Strasbourg and Basel during 1936-37.^[4] Islington is an inner-city district in north London. ... Kings College London was founded in 1829 and received its royal charter that same year, making it Englands third oldest university institution (predated only by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge). ... Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... City flag City coat of arms Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Département Bas-Rhin (67) Région Alsace Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Intercommunality Urban Community of Strasbourg City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 78. ... Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian, Spanish: Basilea and Czech: Basilej ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second...

Ministry

From 1938-1946 he served as a Methodist minister in New Eltham and Chislehurst, England (southeast London). He came to public notice in 1945 when he challenged the charger that Martin Luther was the spiritual ancestor of Hitler. New Eltham is a place largely in the London Borough of Greenwich, England, although a small part of it falls within the London Borough of Bexley. ...

In 1946, Rupp served as the assistant to the Principle of Wesley House. In 1947, he was appointed assistant professor at Richmond College.^[5]

Rupp participated in the reconstruction efforts of the World Council of Churches in Europe.^[6] In 1947, he visited Berlin, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bremen and Delmenhorst. During this time, he lectured at the conference of the Methodist church of Northwest Germany.^[7] The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the principal international Christian ecumenical organization. ... Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... Stuttgart [], a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 590,000 (as of September 2005) in the city and around 3 million in the metropolitan area. ... Heidelberg is a scenic city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt. ... Main Station Frankfurt Frankfurt International Airport For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ... Bremen may mean: Bremen (city), the city in Germany itself Bremen Airport Bremen (state), which comprises the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven Archbishopric of Bremen, a historical state to the north of the city Duchy of Bremen, a historical state created on the secularization of the archbishopric in 1648 Bremen... Delmenhorst is an urban district (Kreisfreie Stadt) in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

After his tenure at Richmond (1947-1952), he served at Wesley House in Cambridge. In 1956, he was appointed professor of Church History at the University of Manchester. He lectued there until 1967, when he returned to Wesley House in Cambridge as its Principal. At the same time (1968-1977)he served as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge. 1969, he served as the president of the British Methodist church.^[8] The University of Manchester in Manchester, England, was formed by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ... The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Rupp received Honorary doctorates from Cambridge, University of Aberdeen, University of Manchester and University of Paris, and was appointed as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1970.^[9] The University of Aberdeen is one of the ancient universities of Scotland. ... The University of Manchester in Manchester, England, was formed by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ...

Notes

1. ^ Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon s.v. "Rupp, Ernest Gordon," (by Karl Heinz Voigt), (Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2006)
2. ^ Voigt, "Rupp, Ernest Gordon."
3. ^ John Munsey Turner, "Gordon Rupp (1910-1986) as Historian" Epworth Review 18 (1991) No. 1:70.
4. ^ Turner, 70.
5. ^ Turner, 71.
6. ^ Turner, 77.
7. ^ Voigt, "Rupp, Ernest Gordon."
8. ^ Voigt, "Rupp, Ernest Gordon."
9. ^ Voigt, "Rupp, Ernest Gordon."

Works by Gordon Rupp

Holy Book and holy tradition: International colloquium held in the Faculty of Theology, University of Manchester. ed. F.F.Bruce & E. Gordon Rupp. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1968.
Rupp, E. Gordon. "I seek my brethren:" Bishop Bell and the German Churches. London: Epworth, 1975.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Is this a Christian Country? , 1941.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Luther's progress to the Diet of Worms, 1521.NL: NP, 1951.
Rupp, E. Gordon. The King of Glory: Studies in St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians London: Epworth Press, 1940.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Martin Luther, Hitler's Cause or Cure? London and Redhill, Lutterworth press, 1945.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Religion in England 1688 - 1791. London : S.C.M. Press, 1975.
Rupp, E. Gordon. The Righteousness of God: Luther studies., London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Study in the making of the English Protestant Tradition, Mainly into the Reign of Henry VIII. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,, 1947.
Rupp, E. Gordon. Thomas More: the King's good servant, New York : Collins, 1978.

Resources

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon s.v. "Rupp, Ernest Gordon," (by Karl Heinz Voigt), (Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2006).
Turner, John Munsey. "Gordon Rupp (1910-1986) as Historian" Epworth Review 18 (1991) No. 1:70-82.