Arthur Gabriel Hebert (1886–1963) was an English

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of Kelham,

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(more strictly a member of the

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), and a proponent within

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of the ideas of the

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. As such he was in familiar contact with

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monasteries in Austria and Germany. Hebert also had contacts with artists and with

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circles in Switzerland and with the high church Lutheran movement in Sweden. He was very much aware of the social implications of liturgical renewal in

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. Hebert was in some respects a disciple of

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Early life

Hebert was born on 28 May 1886 in

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, the son of the priest Septimus Hebert and his wife Caroline Charlotte Haslam. He was educated at

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. He graduated from

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, with

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in '' literae humaniores'' in 1908 and with first-class honours in

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in 1909. Following his ordination to the diaconate in 1911, Hebert was priested in 1912.

Works

*''Christus Victor'', 1931 by Gustaf Aulen (translator) *''Liturgy and Society'', London: Faber and Faber, 1935 *''The Parish Eucharist'', 1936 *''The Form of the Church'', 1945 *contributor to ''Catholicity: a study in the conflict of Christian traditions in the west / being a report presented to...the Archbishop of Canterbury'', Westminster: Dacre Press, 1947 *''The Authority of the Old Testament'', London: Faber and Faber, 1947 *''Fundamentalism and the Church of God'', Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957 *''The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History'', London: SCM Press, 1962 *''The Old Testament from Within'', London: Oxford, 1962 *''Apostle and Bishop: a study of the Gospel, the ministry, and the Church-community'', London: Faber and Faber, 1963 *contributor to ''True Worship'', ed. Lancelot Sheppard, Baltimore : London: Helicon Press; Darton, Longman & Todd, 1963 *Articles in ''The Expository Times''

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