Eric Lionel Mascall OGS (1905–1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England.

[1] Mascall was for many years one of the major figures in British theology and well respected on the Continent and in North America.

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.

After a period as a schoolmaster at Bablake School, Coventry,[3] Mascall was ordained priest in 1933 at Southwark Cathedral, serving his first curacy at St Andrew's, Stockwell.

In 1962 he became Professor of Historical Theology at King's College London and followed this appointment by a period as canon theologian of Truro Cathedral.