Leonard Hodgson

Nationality

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

1889

Date of Death

1969

Political
Preference

Hodgson was born in the British city of Fullham. After his studies at St. Paul’s School in London and Hertford College in Oxford, he went St. Michael’s College in Llandagg to become an Anglican priest. After he became a priest, he held several teaching positions at college’s in Great Britain and the United States. In 1919, Hodgson became Dean of Divinity and Tutor in Theology at Magdalan College Oxford and in from 1931 to 1938, he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford. In 1944 Hodgson became Regius Professor of Divinity at Magdalen College a position. He held this position until he retired in 1958.

In the 1930s, Hodgson became active within the ecumenical movement. In the Life and Work movement, he was a member of the research department under Hans Schönfeld and Nils Ehrenström from 1934 to 1938. Thenceforth a member of the WCC Provisional Committee, he was also theological secretary to the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches between 1933 and 1952. In July 1943, he was present at the International Round Table of Christian Leaders at Princeton Inn, organized by the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, led by John Foster Dulles.