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J. H. (Joseph Hugh) Beibitz
1868–1936
An Anglican clergyman and religious writer, he is best remembered for thoughtful works that bring Christian doctrine into conversation with everyday moral and spiritual questions. His best-known book, Gloria Crucis, grew out of Holy Week addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral in 1907.
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Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907
by J. H. (Joseph Hugh) Beibitz
About the author
Born in 1868 and remembered in library records as Joseph Hugh Beibitz, he wrote as J. H. Beibitz and published several works of Christian theology and religious reflection. Public-domain and library catalogs consistently connect him with Gloria Crucis, Belief, Faith, & Proof, What I Believe and Why I Believe It, and Rationalism & Orthodoxy of To-day.
The surviving record suggests he was an Anglican priest as well as an author. A digitized 1927 title page for Rationalism & Orthodoxy of To-day identifies him as Vicar of All Saints, Warwick, an Honorary Canon of Coventry, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Coventry, and formerly Vice-Principal of the Theological College, Lichfield.
His writing is serious but accessible, centered on questions of faith, the meaning of the Cross, natural theology, and the challenge of explaining belief in a modern intellectual world. Gloria Crucis, the work most often associated with him, was published from addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral during Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907.