Gabriel Hebert

The Reverend Gabriel Hebert SSM
Born	Arthur Gabriel Hebert (1886-05-28)28 May 1886 Silloth, England
Died	26 July 1963(1963-07-26) (aged 77)
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1911 (deacon) 1912 (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
Influences	Gustaf Aulén Lambert Beauduin Edmund Bishop Yngve Brilioth Ildefons Herwegen F. D. Maurice
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Biblical theology liturgics
School or tradition	Anglo-Catholicism parish communion movement
Notable works	Liturgy and Society (1935) The Parish Communion (1937)
Influenced	Yngve Brilioth Michael Ramsey Donald Robinson

Arthur Gabriel Hebert SSM (1886–1963) was an English monk of Kelham, Nottinghamshire (more strictly a member of the Society of the Sacred Mission), and a proponent within Anglicanism of the ideas of the Liturgical Movement.

Hebert was very much aware of the social implications of liturgical renewal in Continental Europe through contact with Benedictine monasteries in Austria and Germany as well as having contact with artists in Protestant circles in Switzerland.

Furthermore, his interactions with the high church Lutheran movement in Sweden led to becoming a translator of several works from Swedish to English. This included Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking book on the atonement, Christus Victor, when it was published in English in 1931. Aulén would later say in his autobiography that it was Hebert that came up with that name for the work and that he preferred the Englishman's name for it than his own, Den Kristna Försoningstanken (SV. = EN. The Christian Concept of Reconciliation). Hebert would also translate Part I of Anders Nygren's important work Eros och Agape into English in 1932.

Hebert was, in some respects, a disciple of Gregory Dix.

Early life

Hebert was born on 28 May 1886 in Silloth, Cumberland, the son of the priest Septimus Hebert and his wife Caroline Charlotte Haslam. He was educated at Harrow School. He graduated from New College, Oxford, with first-class honours in literae humaniores in 1908 and with first-class honours in theology in 1909. Following his ordination to the diaconate in 1911, Hebert was priested in 1912.

Works

• translator of Eucharistic Faith and Practice by Yngve Brilioth, London: SPCK, 1930
• translator of Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement, by Gustaf Aulén, London: SPCK, 1931
• translator of Agape and Eros - a study of the Christian idea of love. Part I, by Anders Nygren, London: SPCK, 1932
• Liturgy and Society, London: Faber and Faber, 1935
• The Parish Eucharist, 1936
• The Throne of David, 1941
• The Form of the Church, 1945
• contributor to Catholicity: a study in the conflict of Christian traditions in the west / being a report presented to...the Archbishop of Canterbury, Westminster: Dacre Press, 1947
• The Authority of the Old Testament, London: Faber and Faber, 1947
• Fundamentalism and the Church of God, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957
• The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History, London: SCM Press, 1962
• The Old Testament from Within, London: Oxford, 1962
• Apostle and Bishop: a study of the Gospel, the ministry, and the Church-community, London: Faber and Faber, 1963
• contributor to True Worship, ed. Lancelot Sheppard, Baltimore : London: Helicon Press; Darton, Longman & Todd, 1963
• Articles in The Expository Times

See also

• Parish Communion movement

References

Bibliography

• Baldovin, John F. (2006). "The Liturgical Movement and Its Consequences". In Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (eds.). The Oxford Guide to The Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 249–260. ISBN 978-0-19-529756-0.
• Bishop, Andrew (2013). Eucharist Shaping: Church, Mission and Personhood in Gabriel Hebert's "Liturgy and Society" (PDF) (doctoral thesis). London: King's College, London. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
•  ———  (2016). Eucharist Shaping and Hebert's "Liturgy and Society": Church, Mission and Personhood. Abingdon, England: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315580739. ISBN 978-1-315-58073-9.
• Eliot, Valerie; Haffenden, John (2021). "Biographical Register". The Letters of T. S. Eliot. By Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Valerie; Haffenden, John (eds.). Vol. 9. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-36282-0.
• Irvine, Christopher (1993). Worship, Church and Society: An Exposition of the Work of Arthur Gabriel Hebert. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-85311-074-0.
• Lloyd, Edward Gareth (1997). The Revision of the Eucharist in the Church of England: A Study of Liturgical Change in the Twentieth Century (PDF) (doctoral thesis). Durham, England: Durham University. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
• Mason, Alistair (1993). History of the Society of the Sacred Mission. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-85311-079-5.
• Robinson, Donald (1998). "Origins and Unresolved Tensions" (PDF). In Gibson, R. J. (ed.). Interpreting God's Plan: Biblical Theology and the Pastor. Carlisle, England: Paternoster. pp. 1–17. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury