His books include:
Jesus: What Manner of Man (1947)
George Fox's Book of Miracles (1948)
The Book of Acts in History (1955)
The Eclipse of the Historical Jesus (1964)
One biographical sketch tell us that Henry Cadbury:
.... was part of the American branch of the same Quaker family famous in the United Kingdom for chocolate and social reform. ....
Cadbury graduated from Haverford College in 1903....in 1908, he returned to Harvard for a Ph.D. in Biblical literature. His thesis was “The Style and Literary Method of Luke.”...
World War I was a turning point in the life of this Quaker.
In September 1917, the Philadelphia Press obtained and published an AFSC letter with Cadbury’s signature asking young Quaker men to keep the group updated on their situations. The headline: “Quakers prepare for acts which may violate the law.” Cadbury was becoming notorious as a pacifist spokesman,[while teaching at Haverford College.]
The hysteria described below mirrors that currently splashing in the American airwaves.
In Germantown,[Philadelphia] anti-German sentiment was so intense that a protective box was placed over the neighborhood’s monument to its German settlers. Liberty Loan ads targeted Kaiser Wilhelm personally: “Your Liberty Bonds are pledged to a holy cause in purging the earth of this unspeakable Hun!” At the Society of Biblical Literature, a scholar suggested that Americans break their dependence on the German scholarship Cadbury revered....
To Cadbury, it all seemed a bit much—particularly when early German peace overtures only seemed to inflame the blood lust. So, in October 1918, he wrote the Ledger a letter to the editor he soon regretted. “Never in the period of his greatest arrogances and successes did the German Kaiser and Junkers utter more heathen and bloodthirsty sentiments than appear throughout our newspapers today,” went one passage.
Press and public, wrote Cadbury, were indulging in an “orgy of hate” that could produce only a temporary peace.
Reaction was immediate. Germany could never be punished enough, clamored Ledger readers, who insisted Cadbury didn’t care about the victims. “Hate of the Hun is a Christian virtue,” said a Philadelphia writer. Another remarked on the “appropriateness” of Cadbury’s remarks emanating from Haverford College. The Philadelphia Bulletin reported darkly that Cadbury had failed to subscribe to Liberty Bonds.
No one at Quaker Haverford stood up for Cadbury. A meeting with the college president went poorly. The alumni association demanded his removal.....
Remembered for his gentle wit and self-effacing modesty, Cadbury went on to be a leader in civil rights and liberties, peace, and justice issues. He was a founder (in 1917) of the American Friends Service Committee, which he led through numerous triumphs and crises.
Accompanying this article from which we quote, is this picture. Not of a cat, but an honorable man.
Cadbury was at this time, married. We learn from his biography (Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury, Margaret Hope Bacon, 1987 ) that the holiday season in 1915 saw his engagement to Lydia Caroline Brown. And also in the subsequent household:
There was always a cat, whom she invariably called "Boozie," and sometimes a rabbit as well.
Cadbury was, from 1934 to his retirement in 1954, holder of the the Hollis Professorship of Divinity, a Harvard post. He also served as chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, which he had helped found as we read above. In 1947 he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends.
In September 1917, the Philadelphia Press obtained and published an AFSC letter with Cadbury’s signature asking young Quaker men to keep the group updated on their situations. The headline: “Quakers prepare for acts which may violate the law.” Cadbury was becoming notorious as a pacifist spokesman,[while teaching at Haverford College.]
The hysteria described below mirrors that currently splashing in the American airwaves.
In Germantown,[Philadelphia] anti-German sentiment was so intense that a protective box was placed over the neighborhood’s monument to its German settlers. Liberty Loan ads targeted Kaiser Wilhelm personally: “Your Liberty Bonds are pledged to a holy cause in purging the earth of this unspeakable Hun!” At the Society of Biblical Literature, a scholar suggested that Americans break their dependence on the German scholarship Cadbury revered....
To Cadbury, it all seemed a bit much—particularly when early German peace overtures only seemed to inflame the blood lust. So, in October 1918, he wrote the Ledger a letter to the editor he soon regretted. “Never in the period of his greatest arrogances and successes did the German Kaiser and Junkers utter more heathen and bloodthirsty sentiments than appear throughout our newspapers today,” went one passage.
Press and public, wrote Cadbury, were indulging in an “orgy of hate” that could produce only a temporary peace.
Reaction was immediate. Germany could never be punished enough, clamored Ledger readers, who insisted Cadbury didn’t care about the victims. “Hate of the Hun is a Christian virtue,” said a Philadelphia writer. Another remarked on the “appropriateness” of Cadbury’s remarks emanating from Haverford College. The Philadelphia Bulletin reported darkly that Cadbury had failed to subscribe to Liberty Bonds.
No one at Quaker Haverford stood up for Cadbury. A meeting with the college president went poorly. The alumni association demanded his removal.....
Remembered for his gentle wit and self-effacing modesty, Cadbury went on to be a leader in civil rights and liberties, peace, and justice issues. He was a founder (in 1917) of the American Friends Service Committee, which he led through numerous triumphs and crises.
Accompanying this article from which we quote, is this picture. Not of a cat, but an honorable man.
Cadbury was at this time, married. We learn from his biography (Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury, Margaret Hope Bacon, 1987 ) that the holiday season in 1915 saw his engagement to Lydia Caroline Brown. And also in the subsequent household:
There was always a cat, whom she invariably called "Boozie," and sometimes a rabbit as well.
Cadbury was, from 1934 to his retirement in 1954, holder of the the Hollis Professorship of Divinity, a Harvard post. He also served as chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, which he had helped found as we read above. In 1947 he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends.
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