Talk:William Temple (bishop)
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Only father-son pair of Archbishops?
[edit]Given the confusability between the two, I wonder if the Temples are the only father-son pair of Archbishops of Canterbury, or if they had predecessors (in which case the Temples would be the last instance) in this respect? Worth noting in the article.Cloptonson (talk) 09:14, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Normandy landings
[edit]I have deleted the mistaken claim added to this article in an edit on 26 Nov 2007 that:
A visit to Normandy during Operation Overlord in the summer of 1944 made Temple the first Archbishop of Canterbury to go into battle since the Middle Ages.[1]
This claim has subsequently been repeated in derived wording on a number of other websites[2]. The cited source by Max Hastings does not mention Temple, but p.257 does refer to "a future British Home Secretary, a moderator of the Church of Scotland and an Archbishop of Canterbury" going into action; this (future) archbishop was Robert Runcie, then a young Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, but the contributor may well have misunderstood. Temple's standard biography [3] makes no mention of any such trip, and gives no indication the Archbishop ventured anywhere more dangerous or exotic than Croydon during these last few months of his life.
- ^ Hastings, Max Overlord
- ^ eg. Schori, Katharine Jefferts (2009). "Sermon for the Atlanta Annual Council, Feast Day of William Temple". Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Iremonger, F. A. (1948). William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: his life and letters. OUP.
Elephenor (talk) 17:49, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for the deletion. I had serious doubts about the claim partly because the alleged visit is not in Iremonger and partly because Temple's gout and general ill health at the end of his life seemed to imply the the trip would not have been feasible; but, being unable to get hold of Hastings, did nothing. For the record, Temple's visit to Croydon coincided with the fall of several bombs in the immediate area (Iremonger p.618). Jpacobb (talk) 23:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:William Temple (bishop)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
I have asked for a citation on the source of the one of quotes attributed to William Temple. It is one of the phrases the Rev. Dr. John Luoma has used frequently in his sermons to us.
"the Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members". This isn't, btw, meant as a challenge; I'd just like to know the source. With thanks, Peter Sabin |
Substituted at 18:45, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Roald Dahl chapter in 'Boy'
[edit]This wiki article describes Temple as ill-suited to be headmaster at Repton, but only because his mind was on other matters. A chapter in Roald Dahl's autobiography 'Boy' describes him as a cruel man who Dahl could not imagine would be Archbishop. Dahl describes his violent behaviour as the reason he began to have doubts about religion. 82.132.184.148 (talk) 15:34, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
- Dahl says no such thing in Boy. Temple is not mentioned, which is not surprising as he left the staff of Repton fifteen years before Dahl went there. Tim riley talk 16:56, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
What 'Towards the Conversion of England' reveals
[edit]This report created following a request from the Church Assembly - the forerunner of General Synod - clearly evidences Temple's concern for evangelism, which this article totally fails to reflect. The report is available online https://archive.org/details/towardsconversio0000chur
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