David L. Edwards

David L. Edwards
David Edwards
Born 1929
Education King's School, Canterbury;
Magdalen College, Oxford
Church Church of England
Ordained 1955
Congregations served St Martin-in-the-Fields;
St. Margaret's, Westminster;
Norwich Cathedral;
Southwark Cathedral
Offices held Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey; Dean of Norwich; Provost of Southwark

David Lawrence Edwards OBE (born 1929) is a retired Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Norwich, Provost of Southwark and has been a prolific author.

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Education

Edwards was educated at the King's School, Canterbury and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1952, MA 1956).[1]

Academic career and ministry

Edwards was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford for a seven year period from 1952 to 1959. He spent the academic year of 1953-54 studying at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained deacon in 1954. He served as a tutor at Westcott House (1954-55) and he was ordained priest in 1955.

In 1955, Edwards began his ordained ministry as an assistant curate at St John's Hampstead and also began his work with the Student Christian Movement as its secretary, remaining in both positions until 1958.

Edwards was assistant curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields (1958-66), editor for the Student Christian Movement Press (1959-66) and General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (1965-66).

From 1966 until 1970, Edwards was the Dean of King's College, Cambridge. He was also a Six Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral (1969-76).

Edwardse was a canon of Westminster Abbey and the rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster (1970-78). He was additionally chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons (1972-78) and Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey (1974-78). He was Chairman of the Churches' Council on Gambling (1970-78) and of Christian Aid (1971-78). He was the Dean of Norwich from 1978 to 1983 and the Provost of Southwark from 1983 to 1994.

Edwards retired to Winchester, becoming an honorary chaplain at Winchester Cathedral in 1995.

Honours

In 1990 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, conferred upon him the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity. He wore the academic dress of his former headmaster, Fred Shirley (who had himself been a Doctor of Divinity) and of whom Edwards wrote a biography, F. J. Shirley: An Extraordinary Headmaster (1969).

Also in 1990, Edwards was appointed an honorary fellow of the South Bank Polytechnic (later South Bank University and now called London South Bank University).

In 1995, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Edwards an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Writings

Edwards has written more than 60 books, including:

  • Christian England (London: Collins, 1981-84; Fount, 1982-85)
    • vol. 1: Its story to the Reformation
    • vol. 2: From the Reformation to the 18th century
    • vol. 3: From the 18th century to the First World War

The most recent include:

  • Roger Bowen with David L. Edwards et al, A guide to preaching (SPCK International Study Guide 38, London : SPCK, 2005)
  • Poets and God: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2005)
  • What Anglicans believe in the twenty-first century (London: Continuum, 2000, new expanded edn 2002, updated edn 2004)
  • The Church that could be (London: SPCK, 2002)
  • After death?: past beliefs and real possibilities (London: Continuum, 1999, new edn 2001)
  • A concise history of English Christianity: from Roman Britain to the present day (London: Fount, 1998)
  • The great Christian centuries to come (Durham: St Mary's College, University of Durham, 1998)
  • Christianity: the first two thousand years (London: Cassell, 1997)
  • What is Catholicism? An Anglican responds to the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church (London: Mowbray, 1994)

References

  1. ^ Biography of David L. Edwards Retrieved December 24, 2010



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