Alan Richardson

Who was Alan Richardson?

Alan Richardson KBE was educated at Liverpool University, Exeter College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained in 1928 his first post was as a curate at St Saviour's Liverpool. He was Vicar of Cambo and then Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. Later he was a canon of Durham Cathedral then Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham from 1953 until 1964 when he accepted the position as Dean of York, a post he held until his death.

Richardson published extensively. Among his books were:

Creeds in the Making, reprint 1980

The Redemption of Modernism

History and the Kingdom of God

Christian Apologetics

A Theological Word Book of the Bible

An Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament revised 1972

History, sacred and profane, 1962 Bampton Lectures

A Dictionary of Christian Theology, revised by John Bowden

The Political Christ