Eric Lionel Mascall

The Reverend E. L. Mascall OGS
Born	Eric Lionel Mascall (1905-12-12)12 December 1905 London, England
Died	14 February 1993(1993-02-14) (aged 87) Seaford, England
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1933
Academic background
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge Ely Theological College
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Historical theology philosophical theology
School or tradition	Anglo-Catholicism Thomism
Institutions	Lincoln Theological College Christ Church, Oxford King's College, London

Eric Lionel Mascall OGS (1905–1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and was Professor of Historical Theology at King's College London (in the University of London). His name was styled as E. L. Mascall in most of his writings.^[1]

Mascall was for many years one of the major figures in British theology and well respected on the Continent and in North America. He authored more than 20 books, in which he expounded Anglican theology in its most Catholic of forms. Mascall was arguably the most influential in a group of like-minded theologians, most of whom had predeceased him – Austin Farrer, Gregory Dix, Lionel Thornton and Gabriel Hebert.^[2]