Alan Richardson (priest)

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

1. University of Durham
2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
4. Church Times
5. University of Nottingham, Papers of Rev. Dr. Alan Richardson