Ernest Gordon Rupp

Rupp was born on 7 January 1910 in London and attended Owen's School in Islington. theology at Cambridge's Wesley House, and in Strasbourg and Basel during 1936–1937. ==Ministry==

From 1938 to 1946 he served as a Methodist minister in New Eltham and Chislehurst (southeast London). He came to public notice in 1945 when he challenged the charge that Martin Luther was the spiritual ancestor of Hitler. The charge was made by Peter F. Wiener in a widely distributed pamphlet, ''Martin Luther: Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor''. In 1946, Rupp served as the assistant to the Principal of Wesley House. In 1947, he was appointed assistant professor at Richmond College. Rupp participated in the reconstruction efforts of the World Council of Churches in Europe. 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. 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 lectured 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. In 1968, he served as the president of the British Methodist church. 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. Rupp died on 19 December 1986 in Cambridge. == 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. • Rupp, E. Gordon. Principalities and Powers: Studies in the Christian Conflict in History, London: Epworth, 1952. • Rupp, E. Gordon. Patterns of Reformation, London: Epworth, 1969. Some Reflections on the Origin and development OF the English Methodist tradition, 1738-1898, in: Quarterly and getting fount Review, volume. 178, 1953, 166 FF. ; Methodism in relation ton Protestant tradition, 1954; Thomas Jackson, Methodist Patriarch, 1954; Luther in English theology, in: LR 5/1955/56, 12-24; Six Makers OF English religion, 1500-1700 (Tyndale, Cramer, John Foxe, Milton, Bunyan, Watt), 1957, 19642; Worldmanship and Churchmanship, 1958; The future of the methodistischen tradition, 1959; Protestant Catholicity, 1960; The fishing rod OF his Presence, 1960; Thomas Müntzer, Hans Huth and the “Gospel OF all Creatures…”, 1961; Memories of Stuttgart, in: To to the end of the earth, Martin Niemöller to 70. Geb., hrsg. v. Hanfried Krüger, 1962, 63 FF. ; Load things roofridge, 1964; Consideration RH-considered, The Church OF England and the Methodist Church, 1964; The Doctrine OF the Church RK the reformation, in: The Doctrine OF the Church, hrsg. v. Dow Kirkpatrick, 1964, 64 FF. ; Dilemma OF Peacemaking, 1965; The old reformation and the new, 1967; Patterns OF reformation, 1969; Stronghold and the Cambridge tradition, 1970; Just Men, 1977; "Confessio Augustana: A Methodist appraisal," in Lutheran World Federation Report No. 6/7, dec. 1979, 83-94. The Confessio Augustana in methodistischer view, in: Harding Meyer, Augsburgi confession in the ökumenischen context, 1980, 111 FF. ; John Bunyan, in: TRE, Bd. 7, 1981, 416-419. University of Cambridge, in: TRE, Bd. 7, 1981, 592-598 The plans OF salvation, in: Friends OF Wesley's Chapel, 1982. John Wesley and Martin Luther, 1983 John Wesley the one, 1984 Pellet acre OF Wisdom, lecture, in Wesley's Chapel, 25.1.1985 Preface, in: A. Kingsley Lloyd, Laienapostolat in 18. Century, 1986 Wisdom and wit: At Anthology from the Writings OF Gordon Rupp, hrsg. v. John A. Vickers, 1993 Hrsg.: in accordance with Davies, Rupert, A history OF the Methodist Church in Great Britain, volume. I, 1965, volume. II, 1978, volume. III, 1983, volume. IV, (with bibliography), 1988; Erasmus (Desiderius), De libero arbitrio diatribe seu collatio (translated and edited in collaboration with A.N.Marlow), in: Luther, Martin, De servo arbitrio, Luther and Erasmus, free wants and salvation, 1969 Luther, Martin, (SELECT ion and Extracts) OD. by E. Gordon Rupp and Benjamin Drewery, 1970 Preface to A. Kingsley Lloyd, Laienapostolat in 18. Century, paying and employment of the first methodistischen Prediger in England, with supplementing explanations of Karl Heinz Voigt, 1986. --> == Notes ==