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Tuesday 16 October 2012
English teacher who became the first woman to head a theological college
12 Sep 2012
Sun Myung Moon's family was anything but saintly, says George Chryssides
03 Sep 2012
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30 Aug 2012
Biblical scholar who transformed Judas Iscariot’s reputation from traitor to Jesus’s best friend
24 Aug 2012
New Testament scholar whose rigorous pursuit of historical truth never compromised his faith
13 Aug 2012
Hardline arbiter of Jewish religious law who possessed political clout in Israel
23 Jul 2012
Archbishop of Rio who opposed the Brazilian junta by helping thousands of dissidents to flee abroad
16 Jul 2012
Head of BBC religious broadcasting who later met the challenge of change at Lichfield Cathedral
11 Jun 2012
Traditionalist country parson whose easy-going love of the good things in life filled his pews to bursting
22 May 2012
Curate who became Chaplain of the Fleet and later Dean of Gibraltar
16 May 2012
Theologian whose declaration that 'God is dead’ brought ridicule and death threats and cost him his job
03 May 2012
Turbulent priest whose gift for controversy was tempered by his skills as a preacher and confessor
02 May 2012
Cathedral organist who commissioned Leonard Bernstein to compose his celebrated Chichester Psalms
29 Apr 2012
Hong Kong official who struggled to keep MPs in line on the Chinese border
29 Apr 2012
New Testament scholar whose analysis of St Paul influenced the debate about the ordination of women
17 Apr 2012
Gifted teacher of future priests who became a scholarly and literary Dean of King’s College, London
16 Apr 2012
Missionary in South Africa whose opposition to apartheid was met with a 'banning’ order and house arrest
06 Apr 2012
Ultra-Orthodox leader among the last to have studied in pre-Holocaust Europe
22 Mar 2012
Roman Catholic convert who devoted many of his years as a priest to the beatification of Cardinal Newman
21 Mar 2012
Head of the Coptic Church who trod a delicate path between Egypt’s military chiefs and its Islamic extremists
18 Mar 2012
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