Anthony tyrrell hanson biography
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Modern (Post-1922)Floruit Lower1916
Floruit Upper1991
- ContributorDictionary footnote Irish Biography
| Gender: | Male |
| Floruit Lower: | 24-11-1916 |
| Floruit Upper: | 28-5-1991 |
| Birth Date: | 24-11-1916 |
| Death Date: | 28-5-1991 |
| Place of Birth: | England |
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- Bib ID:
- 202471
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hanson, Anthony Tyrrell, 1916-
- Description:
- London : S.P.C.K., 1974
- xiv, 329 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0281027528
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [305]-313.
- Subject:
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Richard Hanson (bishop)
Irish bishop
For other people named Richard Hanson, see Richard Hanson (disambiguation).
Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, FBA, MRIA (1916–1988) was bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland from 1970 to 1973. A historian of antiquity (he claimed to distrust history written concerning periods subsequent to 600 AD) he was particularly noted for a life of St. Patrick. He discovered that ecumenical work was particularly restricted in the context of the Troubles in a diocese lying on both sides of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which he accordingly resigned to take up a professorship in Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Manchester University. During this period he worked notably on the evolution of Christian theology in the period between (and immediately prior to) the Councils of Nicaea (325 AD) and Constantinople (381 AD) He was the first British or Irish contributor to the Sources Chrétiennes collection of early Christian writings.
Among his writings was Reasonable Belief, which was written jointly with his brother, Anthony Tyrrell Hanson, a Professor of Theology at Hull University. In the introduction he notes "One of the authors is an Anglican priest and the other an Anglican bishop, and ne