B. H. Streeter

{{Short description|English Anglican theologian and biblical scholar (1874–1937)}}

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| death_place = Near Waldenburg, Switzerland

| title = Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford (1933–1937)

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Burnett Hillman Streeter {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}}{{sfn|Hardwick|1938|p=251}} (17 November 1874 – 10 September 1937) was an English Anglican theologian, biblical scholar, and textual critic.

Life

File:Burnett Hillman-Streeter (1874–1937) .jpg

Streeter was born in Croydon, London, on 17 November 1874 and educated at The Queen's College, Oxford.{{sfn|Court|2006|p=19}} He was ordained in 1899 and was a member of the Archbishops' Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England (from 1922 to 1937).{{sfn|Court|2006|pp=19, 21}} In 1910, Streeter formed a group of Oxford dons known as The Group, which met weekly to discuss theological topics.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} He attended the 1935 Nuremberg Rally with Frank Buchman.{{sfnm |1a1=Belden |1y=1976 |1p=272 |2a1=Lean |2y=1985 |2p=236}} He wrote a dozen volumes in the fields of philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and New Testament textual studies.

He was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1933, when he became Provost of Queen's College.

The most important work of Streeter was The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins (1924), in which he proposed a "four-document hypothesis" (instead of the "two-source hypothesis") as a new solution to the synoptic problem.{{sfn|Streeter|1924|pp=223–270}}{{verification needed|date=September 2020}} In this work, he also developed the theory of "local texts" in the manuscript transmission of the New Testament (pp. 27–50). Johann Leonhard Hug was his forerunner.{{sfn|Metzger|Ehrman|2005|p=215}}

Streeter found a new textual family: Caesarean text-type. He remarked a close textual relationship between Codex Sinaiticus and Vulgate of Jerome.

Streeter and his wife, Irene, were the only passengers on a Koolhoven FK.50, HB-AMO which crashed into Mount Kelleköpfli on a flight from Bern to Basel on 10 September 1937. The crew started the descent to Basel in low visibility due to foggy conditions. The plane hit Mount Kelleköpfli located near Waldenburg, 25 kilometres southeast of Basel airport. The pilot Walter Eberschweiler and the Streeters were killed immediately, while the radio operator/navigator Hans Huggler survived the accident, but was severely injured.

Works

[https://archive.org/stream/foundationsastat00unknuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Foundations: A Statement of Christian Belief in Terms of Modern Thought], (Macmillan and Co.: London 1912).
[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029357666 Restatement and Reunion: A Study in First Principles] (Macmillan and Co.: London 1914)
[https://archive.org/details/warthiswarsermon00strerich War: This war (1914–1918) and the Sermon on the Mount] (Oxford University Press: London 1915)
[https://archive.org/stream/immortalityaness00streuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Immortality: an Essay in Discovery Coordinating Scientific Psychical and Biblical Research] (Macmillan Company: New York 1917)
[https://archive.org/stream/womanchurch00streuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Woman and the Church] (T. Fisher Unwin: London 1917)
[https://archive.org/stream/godandthestruggl00darcuoft#page/n3/mode/2up God and the Struggle for Existence] (Association Press: New York 1919)
[https://archive.org/stream/messageofsadhusu00stre#page/n5/mode/2up The Message of Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Study in Mysticism and Practical Religion], (Macmillan Company: New York 1921).
[https://archive.org/stream/spiritrelation00stre#page/n3/mode/2up The Spirit: the Relation of God and Man, Considered from the Standpoint of Recent Philosophy and Science] (Macmillan Company: New York 1922).
[http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/book_4gospels_streeter.html The Four Gospels, a Study of Origins treating of the Manuscript Tradition, Sources, Authorship, & Dates (1924)], (4th Revised Edition, Macmillan and Co.: London 1930).
[https://archive.org/stream/MN40150ucmf_14#page/n5/mode/2up Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion], (Macmillan and Co.: London 1926); reprinted subsequently.
[https://archive.org/details/primitivechurchs027908mbp Primitive Church Studied with Special Reference to the Origins of the Christian Ministry], (Macmillan Company: New York 1929).
[https://archive.org/details/TheChainedLibrary The Chained Library], (Burt Franklin: New York 1931).
The Buddha and the Christ, Bampton Lectures (1932).
[https://archive.org/details/MN40272ucmf_11 The God who speaks], (Macmillan Company: New York 1936).

References

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= Bibliography =

{{cite thesis

|last=Belden

|first=David C.

|year=1976

|title=The Origins and Development of the Oxford Group (Moral Re-Armament)

|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:af3e69ed-81c2-493f-a6bf-d05cfdec6c48

|degree=DPhil

|location=Oxford

|publisher=University of Oxford

|access-date=28 September 2020

}}

{{cite journal

|last=Boobbyer

|first=Philip

|year=2010

|title=B. H. Streeter and the Oxford Group

|journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

|volume=61

|issue=3

|pages=541–567

|doi=10.1017/S0022046908005939

|s2cid=146212540

|issn=1469-7637

}}

{{cite journal

|last=Court

|first=John M.

|year=2006

|title=Burnett Hillman Streeter (17th November 1874 – 10th September 1937)

|journal=The Expository Times

|volume=118

|issue=1

|pages=19–25

|doi=10.1177/0014524606069719

|s2cid=145584485

|issn=1745-5308

}}

{{cite journal

|last=Hardwick

|first=J. C.

|year=1938

|title=Burnett Hillman Streeter (1875–1937)

|journal=The Expository Times

|volume=49

|issue=6

|pages=249–254

|doi=10.1177/001452463804900603

|s2cid=170240359

|issn=1745-5308

}}

{{cite book

|last=Lean

|first=Garth

|year=1985

|title=Frank Buchman: A Life

|url=http://frankbuchman.info

|location=London

|publisher=Constable & Co.

|access-date=28 September 2020

}}

{{cite book

|last1=Metzger

|first1=Bruce M.

|author1-link=Bruce M. Metzger

|last2=Ehrman

|first2=Bart D.

|author2-link=Bart D. Ehrman

|year=2005

|title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration

|edition=4th

|location=New York

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|isbn=978-0-19-516122-9

}}

{{cite book

|last=Neville

|first=David J.

|year=1994

|title=Arguments from Order in Synoptic Source Criticism: A History and Critique

|series=New Gospel Studies

|volume=7

|location=Macon, Georgia

|publisher=Mercer University Press

|isbn=978-0-86554-399-7

}}

{{cite book

|last=Streeter

|first=Burnett Hillman

|year=1924

|title=The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins

}}

External links

{{BBKL|s/s4/streeter_b_h|volume=11|author=Klaus-Gunther Wesseling|pages=46-48}}
[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/568744/Burnett-Hillman-Streeter Encyclopædia Britannica]
[http://www.katapi.org.uk/4Gospels/Contents.htm Streeter, The Four Gospels]
{{Internet Archive author |sname=Burnett Hillman Streeter}}
[http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/streeter/reality/5764c.htm Reality]