Kirsopp Lake was a British-American New Testament scholar who worked on manuscripts, photographed important codices, studied the Caesarean text hypothesis, and co-edited major historical projects on Acts and early Christianity.
Setting: Anglican origins followed by liberal academic theology in Britain and the United States.
Kirsopp Lake was a British-American New Testament scholar who worked on manuscripts, photographed important codices, studied the Caesarean text hypothesis, and co-edited major historical projects on Acts and early Christianity.
His work connects physical manuscript access with broad reconstructions of Christian origins. The biography should distinguish his documentary publications from his wider liberal theological conclusions.
Bibliological positions
Manuscript study, local textual history, and historical criticism establish the earliest recoverable forms of text and tradition.
Qualifications and disputes
Some text-family hypotheses associated with Lake were later revised or abandoned.
The coherence of a Caesarean text and the value of the Lake group remain debated.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — Monographs, facsimiles, and collaborations
Principal works
- Codex 1 of the Gospels and Its Allies (1902); legacy
WRK-1124; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
No reviewed graph relationships are attached yet.
- Record
- PER-3048
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
Links from this record
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Records that cite or connect here
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Chris Thomas, “Kirsopp Lake,” PER-3048, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas