George Buchanan (bishop)

George Duncan Buchanan (c. 1935 – 2012) was a South African Anglican bishop.

Buchanan was warden of St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown, where he taught pastoral counseling.^[1]

He was dean of Johannesburg and later bishop of Johannesburg.

During his episcopal ministry he chaired and made a significant contribution^[2] to the 1998 Lambeth Conference's committee on human sexuality. ^[3][4][5]

Like most Anglican bishops in South Africa during the apartheid years he was drawn into anti-apartheid activism.^[6]

Publications

• The Counselling of Jesus. Hodder and Stoughton. 1985. ISBN 978-0-340-36867-1.^[1]
• Closer to God Reading the Bible in the Power of the Holy Spirit. Struik Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-86823-490-5.

References

1. Hurding, Roger (1985). "The Counseling of Jesus". Third Way 8 (7): 30.
2. The Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town (2012). "Statement on the Death of Bishop Duncan Buchanan". Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
3. Bates, Stephen (2004). A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality. I.B.Tauris. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-1-85043-480-1.
4. Hassett, Miranda K. (2009). Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. Princeton University Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-1-4008-2771-8.
5. Lewis, Harold T. (2007). A Church for the Future: South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century. Church Publishing, Inc. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-0-89869-811-4.
6. Tutu, Desmond (2006). The Rainbow People of God. Double Storey. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-1-77013-098-2.