N. P. Williams

His 1924 Bampton Lectures were published in 1927 under the title ''The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin'', which continues to be an influential source for students of original sin to this day and was included in Ronald W. Hepburn's 1973 entry on the "Cosmic Fall" in the ''Dictionary of the History of Ideas''. Williams argued for a "transcendental" or "pre-cosmic fall" that occurred in the "life-force" and "during an 'absolute' time" prior to the "differentiation of life into its present multiplicity of forms and the emergence of separate species."
He served as the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Oxford, from 1927 until his death in April, 1943. Also in 1927, he became the Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. A collected edition of his works was published by Eric Waldram Kemp in 1954, entitled simply ''N. P. Williams''. On the flap jacket of this edition, N. P. Williams was given this description:
Williams married Muriel, daughter of Arthur Philip Cazenove, of a landed gentry family; their son was Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel. Provided by Wikipedia