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Alan Richardson (priest)

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Alan Richardson

Dean of York
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of York
PredecessorEric Milner-White
SuccessorRonald Jasper
Orders
Ordination1928
Personal details
Born1905
Wigan, Lancashire
Died1975 (aged 69–70)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Exeter College, Oxford
Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Alan Richardson, KBE (1905–1975[1]) was a British Anglican priest and academic. From 1964 to 1975, he served as Dean of York.

Early life and education

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Richardson was educated at Liverpool University, Exeter College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.[2]

Ordained ministry

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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]

Selected works

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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)
  • The Miracle Stories of the Gospels (1941)
  • Christian Apologetics (1947)
  • A Theological Word Book of the Bible (editor) (1950)
  • The Gospel And Modern Thought (1950)
  • The Teacher's Commentary, revised edition, (co-editor) (1955), published in North America by Harper & Bros. as The Twentieth Century Bible Commentary
  • 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)


Styles

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  • Mr Alan Richardson (1905–1928)
  • The Revd Alan Richardson (1928–1943)
  • The Revd Canon Alan Richardson (1943–1953)
  • The Revd Professor Alan Richardson (1953–1964)
  • The Very Revd Alan Richardson (1964–1975)

References

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