Michael Harper (priest)
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Michael Claude Harper (1931-03-12 – 2010-01-06) was an English
Harper won a scholarship to Gresham's School, Holt, then attended Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, where he read law and theology.
Harper was a curate at
In his days as an Anglican charismatic leader, he wrote at least 35 books, including As at the Beginning (1965), a narrative of the growth of Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement in the 20th century. His most popular book, A Love Affair (1982), discussed the necessity to distinguish between material love (eros) and spiritual love (agape).
Harper left Anglicanism in 1995 because of what he saw as the Church of England's increasing doctrinal laxity, particularly with regard to the ordination of women. He and his wife, Jeanne, joined the Orthodox Church. He was ordained and made the first dean of the then newly established Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland. He wrote about his views on female ordination in the 1994 book Equal and Different and related his journey to Orthodoxy in The True Light (1994). He was subsequently made an archpriest by Metropolitan Gabriel of Western and Central Europe in 2005. He was senior priest of the Orthodox Parish of Saint Botolph in London that worships in St Botolph's without Bishopsgate.[4]
His full biography, Visited by God, was published by his wife Jeanne in late 2013.
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External links
- "Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the British Isles and Ireland". Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- "Saint Botolph Orthodox Church". Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- "Books by Michael Harper". Goodreads. Retrieved 2022-04-18.