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'''Henry Joel Cadbury''' (December 1, 1883 &ndash; October 7, 1974) was a biblical scholar, Quaker historian, writer, and non-profit administrator. A graduate of [[Haverford College]], he was a [[Quakers|Quaker]] throughout his life, though essentially an [[agnostic]].<sup>[1]</sup> Forced out of his teaching position at Haverford for writing an anti-war letter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in 1918, he saw  the experience as a milestone, leading him to larger service beyond his Orthodox Religious Society of Friends. He was offered a position in the Divinity School at [[Harvard University]], from which he had received his Ph.D, but he first rejected its teacher's oath for reasons of conscience, the Quaker insistence on telling the truth, and as a form of social activism. He later accepted the [[Hollis Chair of Divinity|Hollis Professorship of Divinity]] (1934–1954). He also was the director of the [[Andover-Harvard Theological Library]] (1938–1954), and chairman (1928–1934; 1944–1960) of the [[American Friends Service Committee]], which he had helped found in 1917. He delivered the Nobel lecture on behalf of the [[American Friends Service Committee|AFSC]] when it, together with the British [[Quaker Peace and Social Witness|Friends Service Council]], accepted the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1947 on behalf of the [[Religious Society of Friends]].

==Select Publications==
* ''The Style and Literary Method of Luke'' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919)
* ''National Ideals in the Old Testament'' (New York: Scribner’s, 1920)
* ''[https://archive.org/stream/s8expositor24londuoft#page/400/mode/2up The Knowledge Claimed in Luke's Preface]'' (The Expositor, 1922, p.&nbsp;401-420)
* ''The Making of Luke-Acts'' (New York: MacMillan, 1927)
* ''The Peril of Modernizing Jesus'' (New York: MacMillan, 1937)
* ''Jesus: What Manner of Man'' (New York: MacMillan, 1947)
* ''George Fox's Book of Miracles'' (Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, 1948)
* ''The Book of Acts in History'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1955)
* ''The Eclipse of the Historical Jesus'' (Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill, 1964)
* ''John Woolman in England: A Documentary Supplement'' (London: Friends Historical Society, 1971)
* ''Narrative Papers of George Fox'' (Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1972)

==References==
* 1. [http://www.universalistfriends.org/UF035.html#Cadbury "My Personal Religion", lecture given to Harvard divinity students in 1936]
*Bacon, Margaret H., ''Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury''. U of Pennsylvania P, 1987. ISBN 0-8122-8045-8.

==External links==
* [http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG051-099/DG081HCadbury.html Philadelphia Inquirer obituary]
* [http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Cadbury__Henry_Joel.html  Biography was prepared by Sarah DeSantis, Spring 2009]
* [http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1947/friends-committee-lecture.html Nobel Peace Prize lecture

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