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DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848–1930)
Archbishop of Canterbury. Born in Edinburgh in 1848, Davidson’s studies for ministry, in the precincts of the English Law Courts, readied him for realistic witness to civil officials. He served a brief assistant curacy, and became chaplain (secretary) to ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, archbishop of Canterbury (1877–1883). As dean of Windsor (1883–1891), Davidson cared for the Royal Family and became a trusted adviser to Queen Victoria. He was consecrated bishop of Rochester in 1891, and transferred to Winchester (1985), then to Canterbury (1903), retiring in 1928. Davidson died in London in 1930.
Davidson’s primacy was a time of great change in CHURCH-STATE relations, in Anglican identity, and in world affairs. The Welsh Church was disestablished. Parliament allowed the CHURCH OF ENGLAND a large measure of self-regulation (1919), but crushingly rejected its proposed Prayer Book revision in 1927 and 1928. State and churches fought over public education, over matrimonial law, over labor relations, and over war policies.
Davidson led the churches in fights for persecuted Jews and Orthodox clergy in Russia, for Abyssinian and Armenian Christians, and for abused Chinese laborers in AFRICA. He encouraged the foundation of the Save the Children Fund. He worked for national unity during the constitutional crisis over the Lords and the emergence of the Republic of Ireland, and during the General Strike.
He led cautiously in new relationships across the ecumenical spectrum. Within his church, Davidson sought moderation and mediation between Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals. He was prepared to ordain men with creedal doubts (including a future archbishop, WILLIAM TEMPLE). A theological student (A.R. Vidler) saw him “as a very great, tactful, cautious statesman: a great pilot in these troublous times.”
See also Anglicanism; Anglo-Catholicism; Ecumenism; Evangelicalism; Judaism; Orthodoxy, Eastern
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