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See also:EWING, See also:ALEXANDER (1814-1873) , Scottish divine, was See also:born of an old Highland See also:family in See also:Aberdeen on the 25th of See also:March 1814. In See also:October 1838 he was admitted to See also:deacon's orders, and after his return from See also:Italy he took See also:charge of theepiscopal See also:congregation at See also:Forres, and was ordained a See also:presbyter in the autumn of 184r. In 1846 he was elected first See also:bishop of the newly restored See also:diocese of See also:Argyll and the Isles, the duties of which position he discharged till his See also:death on the 22nd of May 1873. In 1851 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the university of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Though hampered by a delicate bodily constitution he worked in a spirit of buoyant cheerfulness. By the See also:charm of his See also:personal manner and his See also:catholic sympathies he gradually attained a prominent position. In theological discussion he contended for the exercise of a wide tolerance, and attached little importance to ecclesiastical authority and organization. His own theological position had See also:close See also:affinity with that of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Erskine of Linlathen and See also:Frederick See also:Denison See also:Maurice; but his opinions were the See also:fruit of his own meditation, and were coloured by his own individuality; The trend of his teaching is only to be gathered from fragmentary publications—letters to the See also:newspapers, See also:pamphlets, See also:special sermons, essays contributed to the See also:series of See also:Present See also:Day Papers, of which he was the editor, and a See also:volume of sermons entitled See also:Revelation considered as See also:Light.
Besides his strictly theological writings, Ewing was the author of the See also:Cathedral or See also:Abbey See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Iona (1865), the first See also:part of which contains drawings and descriptive letterpress of the ruins, arid the second a See also:history of the See also:early See also:Celtic church and the See also:mission of St See also:Columba. See Memoir of Alexander Ewing, D.C.L., by A. J. See also:Ross (1877).
End of Article: EWING, ALEXANDER (1814-1873)
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