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Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson,FBA,MRIA (1916–1988) wasbishop of Clogher in theChurch of Ireland from 1970 to 1973. A historian of antiquity (he claimed to distrust history written concerning periods subsequent to 600 AD) he was particularly noted for a life ofSt. Patrick. He discovered that ecumenical work was particularly restricted in the context ofthe Troubles in a diocese lying on both sides of the border betweenNorthern Ireland and theRepublic of Ireland, which he accordingly resigned to take up a professorship in Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology atManchester University. During this period he worked notably on the evolution ofChristian theology in the period between (and immediately prior to) the Councils ofNicaea (325 AD) andConstantinople (381 AD) He was the first British or Irish contributor to theSources Chrétiennes collection of early Christian writings.
Among his writings wasReasonable Belief, which was written jointly with his brother, Anthony Tyrrell Hanson, a Professor of Theology atHull University. In the introduction he notes "One of the authors is an Anglican priest and the other an Anglican bishop, and neither can jump out of his skin" and "It should perhaps be explained that this book is not only a collaboration between two Anglican theologians but between two identical twin brothers."[1]
First published in the year of his death (1988), his book,The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381,[2] is still considered by many scholars to be the finest work on theArian Controversy.Rowan Williams described it as an indispensable tool for future researchers and stated that there is nothing else in English of comparable scope.[3] Trevor A. Hart, lecturer in Systematic Theology in theUniversity of Aberdeen, described it as the distillation of some twenty years' careful research and also stated that nothing comparable exists in either scale or erudition in the English language.[4]Kevin Giles refers to this book as Hanson’s “definitive book on Arianism”.[5]
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