James E. Davey

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Template:Use dmy dates James Ernest Davey (1890–1960) was a Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, historian, and theologian who was acquitted on charges of heresy in 1927Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1953.

Education

Davey was born on 24 June 1890 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, the eldest child of the Rev Charles Davey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Margaret. When Ernest was one the family moved to Belfast. He attended both Methodist College Belfast and Campbell College before graduating in 1912 from King's College, Cambridge.[1]

Theologian and historian

From 1917 until his death in 1960 he was on the staff of the Presbyterian college, in Belfast, variously occupying the four chairs of church history; biblical literature and Hellenistic Greek; Hebrew and Old Testament; and New Testament language, literature, and theology.

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Academic offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Professor of Church History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1917-1922 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byas Professor of Biblical Criticism Template:S-bef/check Professor of Biblical Literature and Hellenistic Greek of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1922-30 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded byas Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Homiletics
Preceded byas Professor of Hebrew Template:S-bef/check Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1930-33 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded byas Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology
Preceded byas Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Homiletics Template:S-bef/check Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1933-1960 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded byas Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Principal of Assembly's College, Belfast
1942-1960 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Presbyterian Church titles
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1953 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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