Richard Hanson (bishop)

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Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson,

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 neither can jump out of his skin" and "It should perhaps be explained that this book is not only a collaboration between two Anglican theologians but between two identical twin brothers."[1]

First published in the year of his death (1988), his book, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381,[2] is still considered by many scholars to be the finest work on the Arian Controversy. Rowan Williams described it as an indispensable tool for future researchers and stated that there is nothing else in English of comparable scope.[3] Trevor A. Hart, lecturer in Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen, described it as the distillation of some twenty years' careful research and also stated that nothing comparable exists in either scale or erudition in the English language.[4] Kevin Giles refers to this book as Hanson’s “definitive book on Arianism”.[5]

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  1. ISBN 9780192132383
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  2. ISBN 978-0-567-03092-4
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  3. S2CID 170308863
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  4. S2CID 96977
    . Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  5. ^ Giles, Kevin (Summer 2004). "The Doctrine of the Trinity and Subordination". Priscilla Papers. 18 (3).

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