Clement Charles Julian Webb

Clement Charles Julian Webb (1865–1954) was an English theologian and philosopher. He was Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion from 1920 to 1930.

Early life

Webb was born in London on 25 June 1865, the son of the clergyman Benjamin Webb and his wife Maria, daughter of the academic William Hodge Mill. He attended Westminster School from 1876 to 1884, where he was a queen's scholar and the school captain. He then studied classics at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1884 to 1889; though initially not a spectacular student, he graduated with a first-class degree. who died in 1942; they had no children.

Selected works

(editor), St Anselm, The Devotions of St Anselm (London: Methuen and Co., 1903) (editor), John of Salisbury, Joannis Saresberiensis Episcopi Carnotensis Policratici sive de Nugis Curialium et Vestigiis Philosophorum libri VIII (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909) Problems in the Relations of God and Man (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1911) Natural and Comparative Religion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912) Studies in the History of Natural Theology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915) History of Philosophy (Home University Library, 1915) Group Theories of Religion and the Individual (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1916) In Time of War: Addresses upon Several Occasions (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918) God and Personality (Abingdon: Routledge, 1918). Divine Personality and Human Life (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1920) Kant's Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926) Religion and the Thought of To-Day (London: Oxford University Press, 1929) Pascal's Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929) John of Salisbury (London: Methuen and Co., 1932) The Contribution of Christianity to Ethics (Kolkata: University of Calcutta, 1932) A Study of Religious Thought in England from 1850 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933) Religion and Theism (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1933) The Historical Element in Religion (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1935) Religious Experience (London: Oxford University Press, 1945)