He is survived by their two sons, Charles and Stephen, and two daughters, Helen and Andre.Ĭhadwick was named master of Selwyn College in 1956. In 1947, he was named dean of chapel at Trinity Hall in Cambridge, and in 1949, he married Ruth Hallward, who died this year. John’s in Huddersfield before becoming chaplain at Wellington College, an independent coeducational institution in Berkshire. After the Church of England ordained him a deacon in 1940 and a priest the next year, he served for two years as a curate at St. Henry Chadwick died in 2008.ĭeeply influenced by his teacher Martin Charlesworth, a Christian historian, and by the imprisonment of the theologian Martin Niemoeller in Germany, he stayed an extra year to study theology, earning another first-class degree.Ĭhadwick enrolled in Cuddeson, a theological college near Oxford, to study for holy orders. When he and his younger brother, Henry, an eminent historian of the early church, were asked by Oxford University Press to produce a comprehensive history of Christianity, he took on the task of overseeing what turned out to be a 16-volume work, “The Oxford History of the Christian Church.” He contributed three volumes himself: “The Popes and European Revolution” (1981), “A History of the Popes, 1830-1914” (1998) and “The Early Reformation on the Continent” (2001). “The Reformation” (1964), one of two volumes Chadwick wrote for The Penguin History of the Church – the other was “The Christian Church in the Cold War” (1993) – was required reading in colleges for decades.
“He wrote as he spoke: To read him is to hear him.” “What is memorable about Chadwick’s writing is its pleasing economy and uncluttered clarity of articulation,” John Morrill, a fellow at Selwyn College, wrote in an obituary in The Guardian of London. Long associated with Cambridge University, Chadwick was master of Selwyn College there for nearly 30 years, beginning in the mid-1950s, and Regius professor of modern history from 1968.Īfter publishing “John Cassian: A Study in Primitive Monasticism” (1950), about the monk and theologian who brought the ideas of Egyptian monasticism to the West in the fifth century, Chadwick turned out a long series of histories remarkable for their variety, authority and engaging style. Chadwick was an ordained Anglican priest.
Bene’t’s Church in Cambridge, confirmed his death. He was 99.Īnna Matthews, the vicar of St. Owen Chadwick, an educator and prolific historian of Christianity whose works encompassed sweeping narratives, like his two-volume history of the Victorian church, as well as incisive biographies and vivid pictures of rural church life, died July 17 at his home in Cambridge, England.
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