biography
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Jenkins, David (Edward)
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Theologian and clergyman, born in Bromley, S Greater London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was a lecturer in Birmingham and Oxford before being appointed director of Humanum studies at the World Council of Churches, Geneva (1969–73). He then became director of the William Temple Foundation, Manchester (1973–8), and professor of theology at Leeds (1979–84). He was appointed Bishop of Durham (1984–94), amidst controversy over his interpretation of the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. He has published several books, including his recent trilogy, God, Miracle and the Church of England (1987), God, Politics and the Future (1988), and God, Jesus and Life in the Spirit (1988). |
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