Nicholas Lash

Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash ( born 1934 ) is an English Roman Catholic theologian.

After serving in the British Army and was subsequently ordained a Roman Catholic priest, he was appointed as the successor to Donald Mackinnon and Denys Turner on the Norris - Hulse Professor of Theology at the University of Cambridge, which he for twenty years from 1978 held until 1999.

Nicholas Lash is the author of numerous theological books and a contributing writer for The Tablet and Concilium. So far, none of his books has been translated into German. Lash has become known as the Newman - researchers. In 1978 he gave a lecture at the Eighth International Newman Conference in Freiburg.

Family

He was born as the son of Joan Mary Moore, an Irish Catholic, and the Brigadier Henry Lash, a Protestant British colonial officer. Nicholas Lash is married to Janet Lash and has a son with her. He is the brother of novelist Jennifer Lash and thus the uncle of actor Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes and the film-maker Sophie Fiennes.

Works (selection)

• His presence in the world. A study of eucharistic worship and theology (1968 )
• Change in focus. A study of doctrinal change and continuity (1973 )
• Newman on development. The search for on explanation in history (1975 )
• Voices of Authority (1976 )
• Theology at the beach of Dover (1979 )
• A matter of hope. A theologian 's reflection on the thought of Karl Marx ( 1981)
• Theology on the road to Emmaus (1986 )
• Easter in Ordinary: Reflections on the human experience and the knowledge of God (1988 )
• Believe three ways in one God: A Reading of the Apostles ' Creed (1992 )
• The beginning and the end of " religion " (1996)
• Holiness, speech and silence. Reflections on the question of God ( 2004)

• Roman Catholic theologian ( 20th century)
• University teachers (Cambridge)
• Briton
• English
• Born in 1934
• Man