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Frederic William Farrar (Mumbai, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society. ==Biography== Farrar was born in Bombay, India, and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1852. He was for some years a master at Harrow School and, from 1871 to 1876, the headmaster of Marlborough College. Farrar became successively a canon of Westminster and rector of St Margaret's, Westminster (the church next to Westminster Abbey), archdeacon of Westminster Abbey and the Dean of Canterbury; he also served as chaplain in ordinary.〔(A Famous Churchman ), in the ''Red River Prospector'', published 2 May 1901; retrieved 17 May 2014〕 He was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous author, his writings including stories of school life, such as ''Eric, or, Little by Little'' and ''St. Winifred's'' about life in a boys' boarding school in late Victorian England, and two historical romances. Farrar was a classics scholar and a comparative philologist, who applied Charles Darwin's ideas of branching descent to the relationships between languages, engaging in a protracted debate with the anti-Darwinian linguist Max Müller. While Farrar was never convinced by the evidence for evolution in biology, he had no theological objections to the idea and urged that it be considered on purely scientific grounds. On Darwin's nomination, Farrar was elected to the Royal Society in 1866 for his philological work. When Darwin died in 1882, Farrar helped get the church's permission for him to be buried in Westminster Abbey and preached the sermon at his funeral.〔 Farrar's religious writings included ''Life of Christ'' (1874), which had great popularity, and ''Life of St. Paul'' (1879). His works were translated into many languages, especially ''Life of Christ''. Farrar was a believer in universal reconciliation and thought that all people would eventually be saved, a view he promoted in a series of 1877 sermons.〔''The Eternal Fate of Unbelievers, Part II'', "(The Witness of Church History (2): The Modern Period )", excerpted and adapted from ''Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment'' by Robert A. Peterson (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing), 1995, Extract by Garry J. Moes.〕 He originated the term "abominable fancy" for the longstanding Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned would entertain the saved.〔The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964〕 Farrar published ''Eternal Hope'' in 1878 and ''Mercy and Judgment'' in 1881, both of which defend Christian universalism at length.〔F. W. Farrar. ''(Mercy and Judgment )''. 1881.〕〔"(Apocatastasis )". ''New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I''.〕 Farrar was accused of Universalism, but he denies this belief with great certainty. In 1877 Farrar in an introduction to five sermons he wrote, in the preface he attacks the idea that he holds to universalism. He also dismisses any accusation from those who would say otherwise. He says, "I dare not lay down any dogma of Universalism, partly because it is impossible for us to estimate the hardening effect obstinate persistance in evil, and the power of the human will to resist the love of God."〔"Eternal Hope" by Rev. Frederic W. Farrar,(New York:E.P. Dutton & Company, 1878), xvi and xxi.〕 In April 1882, he was one of ten pallbearers at the funeral of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey; the others were: The Duke of Devonshire, The Duke of Argyll, The Earl of Derby, Mr. J. Russell Lowell, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. A. R. Wallace, Professor Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederic Farrar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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