Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth

Richard Harries (2004)

Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth (born June 2, 1936 ) is a British Anglican theologian who was Bishop of Oxford between 1987 and 2006 and has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 2006 .

Life

Bishop of Oxford

After attending school, Harries did military service in the Royal Corps of Signals between 1955 and 1958 and was last promoted to lieutenant . He then completed a degree in theology and was curator of the parish church of Hampstead from 1963 to 1969 and at the same time chaplain of Westfield College between 1966 and 1969 . After he was lecturer at Wells Theological College from 1969 to 1972 and at the same time from 1971 to 1972 overseer of this college, he was in 1972 vicar of the All Saints' Congregation in Fulham . After completing this position, he served as dean at King's College London at the University of London from 1981 to 1987 and was also advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury on questions relating to Christian - Jewish relations from 1986 to 1992 .

In 1987 Harries, who received the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Prize of the International Council of Christians and Jews in 1987 and was also Chairman of the Johnson Society in 1988, succeeded Patrick Campbell Rodger as Bishop of Oxford and held that office until June 2, 2006. Successor as bishop in 2007 was John Pritchard , who was previously suffragan bishop of Jarrow. In addition to his office as bishop, he was chairman of the Council of Christians and Jews between 1992 and 2001 and has been its vice-chairman since 2001. He subsequently served as Chairman of the Church of England's Committee on Social Responsibility from 1996 to 2001.

House of Lords

Bishop Harries was one of the 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England on 31 October 1993 as a minister Lord ( Lord Spiritual ) member of the House of Lords . As such, he was a member of the House of Lords Reform Committee in 1999 and Chairman of the House of Lords Committee on Stem Cell Research in 2001 . He was also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics between 2002 and 2008 and of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority from 2009 .

Upon completion of his tenure as Bishop of Oxford, Harries was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated June 30, 2006 as a life peer with the title Baron Harries of Pentregarth , of Pentregarth of Ceinewydd in the County of Dyfed . Shortly thereafter took place its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he is one of the crossbenchers .

2006 Lord Harries, the honor was a Fellow of Selwyn College of the University of Cambridge is Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College of Oxford University , an honorary professor of theology at King's College London and Honorary Doctor of the University of London , the Oxford Brookes University , The Open University and the University of Huddersfield . He is also a Fellow of King's College London, the Royal Society of Literature , the Academy of Medical Sciences (2005) and the Institute of Biology (2009).

Since September 2008 he was professor of theology at Gresham College and was then replaced by Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield .

documentary

Harries was featured in the documentary The Root of All Evil? interviewed by Richard Dawkins . The interview is completely available on the bonus material on the DVD.

Publications

In addition to his spiritual and political activities, Harries wrote numerous books that dealt in particular with Christian-religious topics, but also with personalities such as Reinhold Niebuhr and CS Lewis . His most important works include:

• Prayers of Hope (1975)
• Stewards and the Mysteries of God (co-author, 1975)
• Turning to Prayer (1978)
• Prayers of Grief and Glory (1979)
• Being a Christian (1981)
• Should Christians Support Guerrillas? (1982)
• What Hope in an Armed World (Editor, 1982)
• The Authority of Divine Love (1983)
• Praying Round the Clock (1983)
• Unholy Warfare (co-author, 1983)
• Seasons of the Spirit (1984)
• Prayer and the Pursuit of Happiness (1985)
• Morning has Broken (1985)
• The Cross and the Bomb (co-author, 1985)
• Julian , Woman of our Day (Robert Llewelyn Ed .; co-author, 1985)
• Christianity and War in a Nuclear Age (1986)
• Reinhold Niebuhr and the issues of our Time (Editor, 1986)
• The Reality of God (1986)
• CS Lewis - The Man and his God (1987)
• The One Genius (1987)
• Christ has Risen (1988)
• Is There a Gospel for the Rich? (1992)
• Art and the Beauty of God (1993)
• The Real God (1994)
• Questioning Belief (1995)
• A Gallery of Reflections: The Nativity of Christ (1995)
• Two Cheers for Secularism (Editor, 1998)
• In the Gladness of Today (1999)
• Christianity: Two Thousand Years (Editor, 2001)
• God outside the Box: Why Spiritual People Object to Christianity (2002)
• After the Evil - Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust (2003)
• The Passion in Art (2004)
• Praying the Eucharist (2004)
• The Re-enchantment of Morality (2008)
• Faith in Politics? Rediscovering the Christian Roots of our Political Values (2010)
• Issues of Life and Death: Christian Faith and Medical Intervention (2010)
• Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics. God and Power (Editor, 2010)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 6, 2012)
• Richard Harries at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 6, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 6, 2012)
• Bibliography ( Open Library )

predecessor	Office	successor
Patrick Campbell Rodger	Bishop of Oxford 1987-2006	John Pritchard