Jim Thompson (bishop)
James Lawton Thompson ( born August 11, 1936 in Birmingham, † September 19, 2003 on board the cruise ship Minerva II ) was a British Anglican theologian and Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Jim Thompson was born in Harborne district of Birmingham, the family moved to the outbreak of the Second World War, but to Gloucester and Jim Thompson went to Cheltenham on the Dean Close School, when it is finished it a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge for his good benefits received. Thompson took this scholarship initially but not true, but went to London and trained as an accountant. After completion of this training, he did his military service from 1959-1961. Thompson served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment, which was stationed at that time in Germany. In the time of his statements and his military service, the decision is to study theology and an accompanying personal conversion to an open- Christian religious people. Thompson studied after his military service at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and theology is formed in Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon on a priest. It takes over a first priest place in East Ham, London and returns back in 1968 as a priest after Cuddesdon. From Cuddesdon he transferred in 1971 to a pastorate in Thamesmead in East London. In 1978 he joined the succession of Trevor Huddleston as Suffragan Bishop of Stepney. As Bishop of Stepney, he was responsible for the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Islington and Hackney, who are ethnically mixed and their strong religious diversity is correspondingly large. Thompson is an advocate of ecumenism with non - Christian religious communities, just as he gave his voice to those whose social rights he saw limited. 1991 is called by this marked by many challenges to a priest position in a major city as successor to George Carey as bishop of the more rural diocese of Bath and Wells. Thompson, who loved horses, skeptical at first looked at changes in his new position manages successful and he comes to be generally respected and recognized Bishop of Bath and Wells, a position from which he retired in 2001. As Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was from February 28 1997 - December 31, 2001 a member of the House of Lords.
Jim Thompson's political concern was mainly found in sozialipolitischen area. He was active in the leadership of the Church's child welfare Organistation The Children 's Society, and sat down there in 1999 for the adoption rights for homosexual couples, even if it met with decided opposition to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the influential Bishop of York. In 1992 he took over the leadership of a church group that dealt with the re-evaluation of the family in the context of the Christian tradition. The report of the working group was submitted in 1995 under the title "Something to Celebrate" the General Synod. The report demanded that priests should use the term from living in sin for unmarried or only a civil ceremony couples dare not longer. The report met with strong opposition in conservative church circles and also by the then Archbishop of Canterbury John Carey, the report was rejected. 1998 Jim Thompson argued for the Countryside Alliance and against the then -discussed ban on hounding foxes. On the radio program Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 Jim Thompson was heard regularly.
Jim Thompson was married, he had a son and a daughter.
Swell
- The Right Reverend Jim Thompson: The Daily Telegraph, September 20, 2003, accessed on September 25, 2013
- The Right Reverend Jim Thompson: The Guardian, September 22, 2003, accessed on September 25, 2013
Books by Jim Thompson
- Halfway: reflections on midlife, 1986
- The Lord's Song, 1990
- Stepney Calling, 1991
Other Publications
- Posts by Jim Thompson in the House of Lords in The Hansard
- Bishop of Bath and Wells
- Member of the House of Lords
- Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
- Anglican Bishop ( 21st century)
- Briton
- Born in 1936
- Died in 2003
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