CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN ), British divine, son of a United Free Methodist minister of Scottish descent, was born in London, and educated at schools in Bolton and Nottingham, where his father successively removed, and in Belfast, the home of his grandfather. He was already married when in 1891 he went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gradu ated in 1895 in the honours school of modern history. He had gone to Oxford with the intention of becoming a clergyman in the Church of England, but decided to enter the Congregational min istry. He became minister of the Union Street Church, Brighton, and became famous there as a preacher. On Joseph Parker's death he was chosen as his successor (1903) at the City Temple, London. Here his weekly sermons attracted large congregations. At the end of 1906 he attracted widespread attention by his ad vocacy of what was called the "New Theology," a restatement of Christian beliefs to harmonize with modern critical views and beliefs, and published (1907) a book with this title which gave rise to considerable discussion. In 1915 he left the Congregational ministry, and was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1916. He was vicar of Christ Church, Westminster (1917-21), and in 1924 became vicar of Holy Trinity, Brighton.