Nicholas Lash

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Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash (born April 6, 1934 in India - † July 11, 2020 ) was a British Roman Catholic theologian .

Career

Lash attended the boarding school at Downside Benedictine Abbey . After serving in the British Army with the Royal Engineers from 1951 to 1957 , he studied theology at Oscott College, Birmingham. After ordination, he served as a chaplain in Slough for five years . In 1969 he became a Fellow of St Edmund's College of Cambridge University . From 1971 to 1975 he was Dean of the College. In 1976 Lash was able to achieve his laicisation and marry. As the successor to Donald Mackinnon and Denys Turner , he was appointed to the Norris-Hulse Professorship in Theology at Cambridge University, which he held for twenty years from 1978 to 1999.

Nicholas Lash was the author of numerous theological books; he also contributed to The Tablet and Concilium . So far none of his books have been translated into German. Lash was also known as the John Henry Newman researcher; In 1978 he gave a lecture at the Eighth International Newman Conference in Freiburg.

family

He was born to Joan Mary Moore, an Irish Catholic, and Brigadier Henry Lash, a Protestant British colonial officer. Nicholas Lash was married to Janet Lash and had a son with her. He was the brother of the writer Jennifer Lash and thus the uncle of the actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes and the filmmaker Sophie Fiennes .

Works (selection)

  • His presence in the world. A study in eucharistic worship and theology (1968)
  • Change in focus. A study of doctrinal change and continuity (1973)
  • Newman on development. The search for an explanation in history (1975)
  • Voices of authority (1976)
  • Theology on Dover beach (1979)
  • A matter of hope. A theologian's reflections on the thought of Karl Marx (1981)
  • Theology on the Way to Emmaus (1986)
  • Easter in ordinary. Reflections on human experience and the knowledge of God (1988)
  • Believing three ways in one God. A reading of the Apostles' Creed (1992)
  • The Beginning and the end of 'religion' (1996)
  • Holiness, speech and silence. Reflections on the question of God (2004)

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personal data
SURNAME Lash, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lash, Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2020