Gabriel Hebert

Arthur Gabriel Hebert (1886–1963) was an English monk of Kelham, Nottinghamshire (more strictly a member of the Society of the Sacred Mission), and a proponent within Anglicanism of the ideas of the Liturgical Movement.

Hebert was very much aware of the social implications of liturgical renewal in Continental Europe through contact with Benedictine monasteries in Austria and Germany as well as having contact with artists in Protestant circles in Switzerland.

Furthermore, his interactions with the high church Lutheran movement in Sweden led to becoming a translator of several works from Swedish to English. This included Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking book on the atonement, Christus Victor, when it was published in English in 1931. Aulén would later say in his autobiography that it was Hebert that came up with that name for the work and that he preferred the Englishman's name for it than his own, Den Kristna Försoningstanken (SV. = EN. The Christian Concept of Reconciliation). Hebert would also translate Part I of Anders Nygren's important work Eros och Agape into English in 1932.

Hebert was, in some respects, a disciple of Gregory Dix.

Early life Hebert was born on 28 May 1886 in Silloth, Cumberland, the son of the priest Septimus Hebert and his wife Caroline Charlotte Haslam. He was educated at Harrow School. Following his ordination to the diaconate in 1911, Hebert was priested in 1912.

Works

translator of Eucharistic Faith and Practice by Yngve Brilioth, London: SPCK, 1930 translator of Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement, by Gustaf Aulén, London: SPCK, 1931 translator of Agape and Eros - a study of the Christian idea of love. Part I, by Anders Nygren, London: SPCK, 1932

Liturgy and Society, London: Faber and Faber, 1935 The Parish Eucharist, 1936 The Throne of David, 1941 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