"H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a ""father of science fiction"", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on"
"George Albert Wells George Albert Wells (22 May 1926–23 January 2017), usually known as G. A. Wells, was a Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book ""The Jesus of the Early Christians"" in 1971. He is best known as an advocate of the thesis that Jesus is essentially a mythical rather than a historical figure, a theory that was pioneered by German biblical scholars such as Bruno Bauer and Arthur"
"""H. G. Wells in Love"", his father's account of his main extramarital love affairs. G. P. Wells George Philip Wells FRS (17 July 1901 – 27 September 1985), son of the British science fiction author H. G. Wells, was a zoologist and author. He co-authored, with his father and Julian Huxley, ""The Science of Life"". A pupil at Oundle School, he was in the first class to learn Russian as a modern language in a British school. He accompanied his father to Soviet Russia in 1920, acting as his Russian translator and exchanging ideas with Russian zoology students. He won"
"Political views of H.G. Wells Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) — known as H.G. Wells — was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells called his political views socialist. Wells was for a time a member of the socialist Fabian Society, but broke with them as his creative political imagination, matching the originality shown in his fiction, outran theirs. He later grew staunchly critical of them as having a poor understanding of economics and educational reform. He ran as a Labour Party candidate for London"
"its scholarship. Although most NT scholars will not (or do not) consider his work either convincing or particularly well argued."" (p. 19). Wells provided an answer to these points in an article in ""Free Inquiry"". His major works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German language thought and letters are George Albert Wells George Albert Wells (22 May 1926–23 January 2017), usually known as G. A. Wells, was a Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus,"
"G. P. Wells George Philip Wells FRS (17 July 1901 – 27 September 1985), son of the British science fiction author H. G. Wells, was a zoologist and author. He co-authored, with his father and Julian Huxley, ""The Science of Life"". A pupil at Oundle School, he was in the first class to learn Russian as a modern language in a British school. He accompanied his father to Soviet Russia in 1920, acting as his Russian translator and exchanging ideas with Russian zoology students. He won an entrance Exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became Senior Scholar in his"
"H.G. Wells). The book contains a foreword by Mihajlo Pupin and twelve talks by Julian Huxley, J. Arthur Thomson, J.S. Haldane, E.W. Barnes, B. Malinowski, H. R. L. Sheppard, B. H. Streeter, C.W. O'Hara, Arthur S. Eddington, S. Alexander, W.R. Inge, and L.P. Jacks. Science & Religion: A Symposium Science & Religion: A Symposium (1931) is a book first published in 1931, consisting of a lightly edited transcription of twelve talks broadcast on the BBC between September and December 1930. In contrast to the 1920s conflicts between science and religion in the U.S. (e.g., the Scopes trial), 1920's Great Britain"
"Crux Ansata Crux Ansata, subtitled 'An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church' by H. G. Wells is a (96 page) wartime book first published in 1943 by Penguin Books, Hammonsworth (Great Britain): Penguin Special No. 129. The U. S. edition was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix of an interview with Wells recorded by John Rowland. The U.S. edition of 144 pages went into a third printing in August 1946. H. G. Wells, living in London under the regular bombings from across the English Channel, extensively attacks Pope"
"The Martian War The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells is a 2006 science fiction novel by Kevin J. Anderson under his pseudonym Gabriel Mesta. It is a retelling of H.G. Wells' ""The War of the Worlds"" similar to Anderson's past work, """". It recounts the Martian invasion from a variety of viewpoints, and has ties to Wells' other work. In War of the Worlds, Wells himself is the main character who witnesses the Martian attack alongside his fiancée Jane, Thomas Huxley, and Percival Lowell. The British government brings them"
"H. G. Wells: War with the World H. G. Wells: War With The World is a 2006 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author H. G. Wells, who is played in the film by Michael Sheen. The title of the film echoes that of one of Wells' best-known novels, ""The War of the Worlds"" (1898). The film dramatises the story of the author's life, by using H. G. Wells' own words. It tells the story of Wells' transformation from self-confident womaniser, socialist radical and young literary prophet to burdened missionary, dedicated to creating a World State."
"God the Invisible King God the Invisible King is a theological tract published by H.G. Wells in 1917. Wells describes his aim as to state ""as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer."" He distinguishes his religious beliefs from Christianity, and warns readers that he is ""particularly uncompromising"" on the doctrine of the Trinity, which he blames on ""the violent ultimate crystallization of Nicaea."" He pleads for a ""modern religion"" or ""renascent religion"" that has ""no revelation and no founder."" Wells rejects any belief related to God as Nature or the Creator, confining himself to the"
"Brueggemann wrote, ‘Sam Wells arguably has the liveliest, most agile, best informed, critically disciplined mind in the entire Christian community. And he has a baptized heart of honesty, compassion, and passion to match his baptized mind. In this book he ranges over a cluster of complex issues and at every turn his sound judgment instructs us as he moves easily from life to Scripture and back through church tradition. This book will serve many of us well who live with daily perplexities that admit no resolution.’ Sam Wells (priest) Samuel Martin Bailey Wells is an English priest of the Church"
"Ehrman, in his ""Did Jesus Exist?"" (2012) stated: ""The best-known mythicist of modern times — at least among the NT scholars who know of any mythicists at all — is George A. Wells...He has written many books and articles advocating a mythicist position, none more incisive than his 1975 book, ""Did Jesus Exist?"". Wells is certainly one who does the hard legwork to make his case: Although an outsider to NT studies, he speaks the lingo of the field and has read deeply in its scholarship. Although most NT scholars will not (or do not) consider his work either convincing"
"be only a passing phase; ""[e]ssentially . . . Wells had tried Christianity again, albeit in a version much altered from that normally taught, and had found it wanting."" Another biographer, Vincent Brome, wrote that ""within a few years, [Wells's] natural streak of Voltairian anti-clericalism had re-asserted itself with all its old vigour. Later in life he was a little uneasy about the lapse."" The Soul of a Bishop The Soul of a Bishop is a 1917 novel by H. G. Wells. ""The Soul of a Bishop"" tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop"
"all mythical."" Wells notes that he belongs in the category of those who argue that Jesus did exist, but that reports about Jesus are so unreliable that we can know little or nothing about him. Wells argues, for example, that the story of the execution of Jesus under Pilate is not an historical account, writing, ""I regarded (and still do regard) [the following stories;] the virgin birth, much in the Galilean ministry, the crucifixion around A.D. 30 under Pilate, and the resurrection—as legendary"". Many scholars still note Wells as a mythicist. Co-author R. Joseph Hoffmann has called Wells ""the most"
"mentions Couchoud's comment on the Christ Hymn, one of the relics of the Christ cults to which Paul converted. Couchoud noted that in this hymn the name Jesus was given to the Christ after his torturous death, implying that there cannot have been a ministry by a teacher called Jesus. George Albert Wells (1926–2017), a professor of German, revived the interest in the Christ myth theory. In his early work, including ""Did Jesus Exist?"" (1975), Wells argued that because the Gospels were written decades after Jesus's death by Christians who were theologically motivated but had no personal knowledge of him,"
"Horatio Hastings Weld Horatio Hastings Weld (4 February 1811 – 27 August 1888) (commonly referred to as H. Hastings Weld) was an American author, newspaper editor and minister. In 1845 he became an Episcopal minister. Weld was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1811. In 1845, Weld was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church. He would serve as rector of St. James Episcopal Church of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Trinity Church of Moorestown, New Jersey and Christ Church of Riverton, New Jersey. Weld’s books include ""The Women of the Scriptures"" (1848); ""Life of Christ"" (1850); and ""Sacred and Poetical Quotations"" (1851). Weld"
"Henry Wells Henry Wells (December 12, 1805 – December 10, 1878) was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company. Henry Wells was born in 1805 in Thetford, Vermont, the son of Dorothea ""Dorothy"" (Randall) and Shipley Wells, a Presbyterian minister at what is now the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls, New York who moved his family to central New York State in the westward migration of Yankees out of New England. He was a member of the seventh generation of his family in America. His original ancestor was"
"H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film) H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (a.k.a. The Classic War of the Worlds or just War of the Worlds) is the first of three reworked direct-to-video film versions, first appearing in 2005, that adapts H. G. Wells' novel of the same name about a Martian invasion of southern England. This version, noted for its faithfulness to Wells's novel, was produced by the independent film company Pendragon Pictures. Unlike the adaptations set in the current day United States, this was the first film set in the novel's original 1898"
"There is a note in the census detail to the effect that her ""inferred residence"" in 1935 was Miami, FL. In 1938 the Sacramento City Directory listed her as ""wid Allan."" Cora clearly never gave up her identity as the wife of Allan Haynes. She died in Sacramento July 4, 1959, at the age of 94. Edgar Haynes Edgar Allan Poe Haynes (May 18, 1866 – January 11, 1923) was named after the famous American writer, Edgar Allan Poe. He was known variously as E. A. P. Haynes, Allan Haynes, Allen Haynes, and Edgar Haynes. He was a Christian evangelist,"
"in the recent decades. Rather, the early Christian epistles present him ""as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past"". Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians was not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom figure. In his early trilogy (1971, 1975, 1982), Wells argued that the gospel Jesus is an entirely mythical expansion of a Jewish Wisdom figure—the Jesus of the early epistles—who lived in some past, unspecified time period. And also on the views"
"Men Like Gods Men Like Gods (1923) is a novel, referred to by the author as a ""scientific fantasy"", by English writer H. G. Wells. It features a utopia located in a parallel universe. ""Men Like Gods"" is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called ""The Liberal"" and resolves to take a holiday. Quitting wife and family, he finds his plans disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally transported"
"Greek Platonic philosophy and concepts, and incorporated them in their views of God and Christ. The author H. G. Wells, later famous for his contribution to science-fiction, wrote in The Outline of History: ""We shall see presently how later on all Christendom was torn by disputes about the Trinity. There is no evidence that the apostles of Jesus ever heard of the Trinity, at any rate from him."" The question of why such a central doctrine to the Christian faith would never have been explicitly stated in scripture or taught in detail by Jesus himself was sufficiently important to 16th"
"the Invisible King"". So by a sort of ""coup d'état"" I turned my New Republic for a time into a divine monarchy."" ""In ""What Are We to Do with Our Lives?"" (1932) I make the most explicit renunciation and apology for this phase of terminological disingenuousness."" God the Invisible King God the Invisible King is a theological tract published by H.G. Wells in 1917. Wells describes his aim as to state ""as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer."" He distinguishes his religious beliefs from Christianity, and warns readers that he is ""particularly uncompromising"" on the"
"science fiction. H. G. Wells later wrote to him, acknowledging that ""this field of scientific romance with a philosophical element that I am trying to cultivate, properly belongs to you."" Although Victorian Birmingham was known as a stronghold of Protestant Nonconformism, St. Mary's College, Oscott in the north of the city lay at the heart of the mid-19th century revival of English Catholicism. The college built a reputation for Catholic literary scholarship after Thomas Walsh brought major collections of Renaissance scholarship including the Harvington Library and the Marini Library to the college in the 1830s, and in 1840 Nicholas Wiseman"
"is depicted as a reactionary ideologue, criticises Utopia for its apparent decadence, and leads the attempted conquest of Utopia. Men Like Gods Men Like Gods (1923) is a novel, referred to by the author as a ""scientific fantasy"", by English writer H. G. Wells. It features a utopia located in a parallel universe. ""Men Like Gods"" is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called ""The Liberal"" and resolves to take a"
"controversial and not widely accepted,"" his ""argument against the historicity of Jesus is sound"". Bart Ehrman, in his ""Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)"" (2012) stated: ""The best-known mythicist of modern times — at least among the NT scholars who know of any mythicists at all — is George A. Wells...He has written many books and articles advocating a mythicist position, none more incisive than his 1975 book, ""Did Jesus Exist?"". Wells is certainly one who does the hard legwork to make his case: Although an outsider to NT studies, he speaks the lingo of the field and has read deeply in"
"Roman Catholic; and Jonathan Wells is a member of the Unification Church. Non-Christian proponents include David Klinghoffer, who is Jewish, Michael Denton and David Berlinski, who are agnostic, and Muzaffar Iqbal, a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim. Phillip E. Johnson has stated that cultivating ambiguity by employing secular language in arguments that are carefully crafted to avoid overtones of theistic creationism is a necessary first step for ultimately reintroducing the Christian concept of God as the designer. Johnson explicitly calls for intelligent design proponents to obfuscate their religious motivations so as to avoid having intelligent design identified ""as just another way of packaging"
"saving of the world which ran through his adult writing."" Similarly, another biographer, Michael Sherborne, sees in the novel ""an unhinged psychodrama concerning Wells' own yearnings for extremes of discipline and freedom."" The Holy Terror (Wells novel) The Holy Terror is a 1939 work by H. G. Wells that is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. ""The Holy Terror"" presents itself as a biography of Rudolf ""Rud"" Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that scarcely is he born but his monthly nurse exclaims: ""It's a Holy Terror!"" Rud Whitlow goes on"
"H. G. Wells around 1902. Conrad later on wrote the foreword to Dawson's ""Britain's Life-Boats"". Both Ernest and Alec attended Conrad's funeral. His other brother Walter joined the India Civil Service in November 1888 and in late 1902 was appointed as Deputy Commissioner, Burma. His younger sister, Sylvia Mary Dawson (1887-1934), became known as an actress in the English theatre prior to the First World War performing roles in plays by George Bernard Shaw, as well as in various provincial productions. By 1898 he was back in England, marrying in that year Elizabeth Drummond. Elizabeth (1874-1932) was the daughter of"
"Edgar Haynes Edgar Allan Poe Haynes (May 18, 1866 – January 11, 1923) was named after the famous American writer, Edgar Allan Poe. He was known variously as E. A. P. Haynes, Allan Haynes, Allen Haynes, and Edgar Haynes. He was a Christian evangelist, philanthropist, ardent anti-liquor crusader, and international businessman, who over the course of his lifetime sold insurance, newspapers, cement, and his own expertise in business engineering. Haynes also had a widespread criminal record of embezzling, fraud, and failure to pay debts, as well as a history of frequent disappearances, location changes, and turnover in employment in the"
"making many comparisons to humanity's ruthless treatment of animals and less-developed cultures, and the Martians' succumbing to Earth microbes as a miraculous deliverance which a desperate humanity did not expect. Conversely, in ""The Martian War"", it is the intended and carefully planned device of a resourceful humanity that wins the day. The Martian War The Martian War: A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent Invasion As Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells is a 2006 science fiction novel by Kevin J. Anderson under his pseudonym Gabriel Mesta. It is a retelling of H.G. Wells' ""The War of the Worlds"" similar to"
"the nineteenth century. Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel ""The Moonstone"" (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, while ""The Woman in White"" is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels. H. G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like ""The Time Machine"" (1895), and ""The War of the Worlds"" (1898) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne (1828–1905), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre. He also wrote realistic fiction about the"