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His ''The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology'' surveyed different approaches to the Christian doctrine of [[Atonement in Christianity|atonement]], concluding with an influential defence of the "subjective" theory of the atonement that Rashdall attributed to both [[Peter Abelard]] and [[Peter Lombard]]. Rashdall argued that the "objective" view of the atonement associated with [[Anselm of Canterbury]] was inadequate, and that the most authentically Christian doctrine was that Christ's life was a demonstration of God's love so profound that Christ was willing to die rather than compromise his character. This in turn inspires believers to emulate his character and his intimacy with the Father.{{sfn|Rashdall|1919|pp=437–447}}
His ''The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology'' surveyed different approaches to the Christian doctrine of [[Atonement in Christianity|atonement]], concluding with an influential defence of the "subjective" theory of the atonement that Rashdall attributed to both [[Peter Abelard]] and [[Peter Lombard]]. Rashdall argued that the "objective" view of the atonement associated with [[Anselm of Canterbury]] was inadequate, and that the most authentically Christian doctrine was that Christ's life was a demonstration of God's love so profound that Christ was willing to die rather than compromise his character. This in turn inspires believers to emulate his character and his intimacy with the Father.{{sfn|Rashdall|1919|pp=437–447}}


Rashdall may have coined the phrase "equality of opportunity."<ref>[[J.B.S. Haldane]], ''The Inequality of Man and Other Essays'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59251/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theater p.23] (London: [[Pelican Books]], 1938).</ref>
Rashdall may have coined the phrase "equality of opportunity."<ref>[[J.B.S. Haldane]], ''The Inequality of Man and Other Essays'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59251/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theater p.24] (London: [[Pelican Books]], 1938).</ref>


Rashdall received the degree [[Doctor of Letters]] (DL) from New College, Oxford, in October 1901.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=University Intelligence |date=18 October 1901 |page=4 |issue=36589}}</ref>
Rashdall received the degree [[Doctor of Letters]] (DL) from New College, Oxford, in October 1901.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=University Intelligence |date=18 October 1901 |page=4 |issue=36589}}</ref>

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Hastings Rashdall Template:Post-nominals (24 June 1858 – 9 February 1924) was an English philosopher, theologian, historian, and Anglican priest. He expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism, and he was a major historian of the universities of the Middle Ages.[1] He argued for personal idealism and theistic finitism.

Biography

Born in Kensington, London, on 24 June 1858,Template:Sfn Rashdall was the son of an Anglican priest. He was educated at HarrowTemplate:Sfn and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of first Hertford College, Oxford, then New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil (1907), to the memory of his teachers T. H. Green and Henry Sidgwick.

The dedication is appropriate, for the particular version of utilitarianism put forward by Rashdall owes elements to both Green and Sidgwick.Template:Sfn Whereas he holds that the concepts of good and value are logically prior to that of right, he gives right a more than instrumental significance. His idea of good owes more to Green than to the hedonistic utilitarians. "The ideal of human life is not the mere juxtaposition of distinct goods, but a whole in which each good is made different by the presence of others." Rashdall has been eclipsed as a moral philosopher by G. E. Moore, who advocated similar views in his earlier work Principia Ethica (1903). Rashdall was also a Berkeleyan and advocated his own variant of personal idealism.[2] He rejected absolute idealism and criticized other philosophers who identified God with the absolute. He argued that there can be no matter without a perceiving mind and that God is an infinite mind, ground of all things and the supreme personality.[2] He argued for an anthropomorphic God that is limited in power to explain the problem of evil.[3][4]

His historical study, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages,[5] was described in the introduction to its recent reprinting as "one of the first comparative works on the subject" whose "scope and breadth has assured its place as a key work in intellectual history."

His The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology surveyed different approaches to the Christian doctrine of atonement, concluding with an influential defence of the "subjective" theory of the atonement that Rashdall attributed to both Peter Abelard and Peter Lombard. Rashdall argued that the "objective" view of the atonement associated with Anselm of Canterbury was inadequate, and that the most authentically Christian doctrine was that Christ's life was a demonstration of God's love so profound that Christ was willing to die rather than compromise his character. This in turn inspires believers to emulate his character and his intimacy with the Father.Template:Sfn

Rashdall may have coined the phrase "equality of opportunity."[6]

Rashdall received the degree Doctor of Letters (DL) from New College, Oxford, in October 1901.[7]

He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1904 to 1907,Template:Sfn a member of the Christian Social Union from its inception in 1890, and was an influential Anglican modernist theologian of the time, being appointed to a canonry in 1909.

He was Dean of Carlisle from 1917 to 1924, and died of cancer in Worthing[8] on 9 February 1924.Template:Sfn He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes"., where Rashdall's The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages is referred to as "a standard work."
  2. ↑ a b Sell, Alan P. F. (2012). The Philosophy of Religion 1875-1980. Wipf & Stock Publishers. pp. 46-47. Template:ISBN
  3. ↑ Nicholls, David. (1989). Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Routledge. pp. 53-54. Template:ISBN
  4. ↑ Henry, Carl Ferdinand Howard. (1999). God, Revelation and Authority: God Who Stands and Stays, Volume 6. Crossway Books. p. 285. Template:ISBN
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  6. ↑ J.B.S. Haldane, The Inequality of Man and Other Essays, p.24 (London: Pelican Books, 1938).
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