Kenneth Kirk was accepted for graduate study at Keble College, but moved to London instead to work with the Student Christian Movement.
16 Facts About Kenneth Kirk
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Kenneth Kirk was active with the university's Officers Training Corps, and was commissioned in the Territorial Force as a second lieutenant on 22 July 1909.
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Kenneth Kirk began the process to become ordained as an Anglican priest and was ordained a deacon on 21 December 1912 and moved to a church near Sheffield to begin a curacy, intending to go back to Keble College to finish his graduate study.
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Kenneth Kirk was promoted to temporary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class on 19 February 1917 while he was senior chaplain to the forces of a division.
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Kenneth Kirk reverted back to Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class on 17 October 1917, having been re-posted.
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Kenneth Kirk relinquished his commission on 1 September 1921 and was appointed an honorary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class.
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Kenneth Kirk was able to return to Oxford in 1919, as a Prize Fellow at Magdalen College and tutor at Keble College.
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Kenneth Kirk began working on his first book of moral theology, Some Principles of Moral Theology, published in 1920.
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Kenneth Kirk adopted the method of casuistry, where general ethical principles are applied to the practical situations in which moral decisions are made.
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Kenneth Kirk revived the study of Christian ethics using casuistry, drawing on the work of Caroline divine Jeremy Taylor.
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Kenneth Kirk began his episcopacy by re-organizing the large, rural diocese and moving the episcopal offices to the city of Oxford.
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Kenneth Kirk issued a temporary seal as the function of Chancellor of the Garter was dissociated from the See of Oxford in the wake of the Abdication Crisis.
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In piety as well as scholarship, Kenneth Kirk followed in the tradition of the Oxford Movement, emphasizing the sacramental nature of the Catholic Church and apostolic succession.
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Kenneth Kirk worked with the Archbishops of Canterbury, William Temple and his successor Geoffrey Fisher, and with George Bell, Bishop of Chichester in devising a compromise solution, and in May, 1950 a resolution was passed in the English Convocation allowing for limited intercommunion.
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Kenneth Kirk died on 8 June 1954, before the resolution was passed in July, 1955, formally inaugurating the communion of the two churches.
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In 1921 Kenneth Kirk married Beatrice Caynton Yonge Radcliffe; they had three daughters and two sons.