Alan Richardson (priest)
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Alan Richardson KBE (1905-1975[1]) was educated at Liverpool University, Exeter College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.[2] Ordained in 1928[3] his first post was as a curate at St Saviour's Liverpool. He was Vicar of Cambo and then Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. Later he was a canon of Durham Cathedral then Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham from 1953 until 1964 when he accepted the position as Dean of York, a post he held until his death.[4][5]
Richardson published extensively. Among his books were:
- Creeds in the Making (1935), reprint 1980
- The Redemption of Modernism (1935)
- History and the Kingdom of God (1939)
- Christian Apologetics
- A Theological Word Book of the Bible (editor) (1950)
- An Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament (1958) revised 1972 (ISBN 978-0334007098)
- History, sacred and profane, 1962 Bampton Lectures (1964)
- A Dictionary of Christian Theology (1969), revised by John Bowden (1983) (ISBN 978-0664227487)
- The Political Christ (1973)
References
- ↑ University of Durham
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
- ↑ Church Times
- ↑ University of Nottingham, Papers of Rev. Dr. Alan Richardson
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