Mozley

Mozley, JAMES BOWLING, an able theological writer and High Church divine, was born in Lincoln- shire in 1813. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, he became a fellow of Magdalen, vicar of Old Shoreham, canon of Worcester, and in 1871 regius professor of Divinity at Oxford. His chief books are: The Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination (1855); The Primitive Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration (1856); Review of the Baptismal Controversy (1863); his admirable Bampton Lectures on Miracles (1865); Oxford University Sermons (1876); Ruling Ideas in Early Ages (1877); Theory of Development, in answer to Newman (1878); Essays, Historical and Theological (2 vols. 1878), containing among other papers admirable essays on Laud and Luther, an over-eulogistic study of Strafford, and a still less successful depreciation of Cromwell and Dr Arnold; and Sermons, Parochial and Occasional (1879). Mozley had great intellectual force, subtlety of analysis, and imaginative versatility, but he wrote without facility, and his style is not commensurate in quality with his thought. He died 4th January 1878. See his Letters (1884).—His elder brother Thomas (1806-93), rector of Plymptree, Devon, was the author of Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement (1882), and Reminiscences, chiefly of Towns, Villages, and Schools (1885).