Gordon Strachan (minister)

For other people named Gordon Strachan, see Gordon Strachan (disambiguation).

Gordon Strachan
Born	January 24, 1934(1934-01-24) Cheam, England
Died	July 7, 2010(2010-07-07) (aged 76) Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation	Minister, theologian, lecturer, author
Nationality	British
Spouse	Elspeth
Children	Christopher

Charles Gordon Strachan (January 24, 1934 – July 7, 2010) was a Church of Scotland minister, theologian, university lecturer and author.^[1] He was regarded as a radical thinker with unorthodox views, such as his claim that Jesus may have travelled to Britain during his lost years to study with the Druids.^[2][3][4]

After attending St Edward's School, Oxford, Strachan went on to obtain a degree in History from Oxford University and a PhD in Theology from New College, Edinburgh.^[5] The subject of his doctoral thesis was Edward Irving, a 19th-century Scottish divine denounced as a heretic. Strachan was active in the Iona Community, taught courses at the Office of Lifelong Learning and lectured in the Department of Architecture at Edinburgh University.^[2][4]

Strachan wrote a number of books including Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity, which was the basis of a 45-minute documentary titled And Did Those Feet (2009) by Ted Harrison.^[6]

Bibliography

• Pentecostal Theology of Edward Irving (1973)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), co-authored with his wife Elspeth
• Christ and the Cosmos (1985), later republished as The Bible's Hidden Cosmology (2005)
• Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity (1998)
• Chartres: Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space (2003)
• The Return of Merlin: Star Lore and the Patterns of History (2006)
• Prophets of Nature: Green Spirituality in Romantic Poetry and Painting (2008)

References

1. ^ "The Times obituary". http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?n=gordon-strachan&pid=143986924&referrer=2282. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "The Guardian obituary". http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/aug/09/gordon-strachan-obituary. 
3. ^ "Minister with a modern approach to philosophy". http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Appreciation-Gordon-Strachan.6428067.jp?articlepage=1. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Jesus in Britain". http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3271/jesus_in_britain.html. 
5. ^ "St Edward's Oxford Obituaries". http://www.stedwards.oxon.sch.uk/ose-obituaries.html. 
6. ^ "Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8380511.stm. 

External links

• TV interview – Dr. Gordon Strachan
• Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic - BBC News article
• Blog in memory of Gordon Strachan

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