Alan Richardson (priest)

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Name Alan Richardson Role Priest		Died 1975

Books A new dictionary of Christi, A Theological Word Boo, An introduction to the the, Creeds in the making, Christian Apologetics

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

Ordained in 1928 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.

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

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)

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