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Aidan Nichols | |
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 Nichols in 2014 | |
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| Ordination | 7 July 1976 |
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| Born | (1948-09-17)17 September 1948 (age 77) Lytham St Annes,Lancashire, England |
| Denomination | Catholic (Latin Church) |
| Residence | Cambridge Blackfriars |
| Occupation | Priest, academic, theologian |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford Blackfriars,Oxford University of Edinburgh Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
John Christopher "Aidan"NicholsOP[1] (born 17 September 1948) is anEnglish academic and Catholic priest.
Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at theUniversity of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the ProtestantReformation. He is a member of theOrder of Preachers (Dominicans) residing in thePriory of St Michael the Archangel in Cambridge, England.
Nichols was born inLytham St Annes, Lancashire, on 17 September 1948. He graduated withfirst-class honours fromChrist Church, Oxford, with a degree in modern history.
Nichols entered theDominican Order in 1970. He spent the next seven years atBlackfriars, Oxford, during which time he was ordained to the priesthood. He then moved to Edinburgh, where he served as a chaplain at theUniversity of Edinburgh. He received his doctorate at Edinburgh in 1986.[2] Between 1983 and 1991, Nichols was lecturer in dogmatics and ecumenics at thePontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In 1990 he was awarded the degree ofLicentiate of Sacred Theology from the university. In 2003, themaster of the Dominican Order conferred on Nichols the degree ofMaster of Sacred Theology.
From Rome. Nichols moved back to England and toCambridge, where he began as assistant Catholic chaplain, then as an affiliated university lecturer (1998) asprior of St Michael's for two terms between 1998 and 2004, and again for a third term from 2013.
Nichols began his academic work in the Russian theological tradition and has written on many figures, includingSergei Bulgakov. However he is best known for his work onHans Urs von Balthasar, publishing three analytic volumes on von Balthasar's famous trilogy:The Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics (1998),No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Dramatics (2000) andSay It Is Pentecost: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Logic (2001). He was also one of the contributors to theCambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). He has also writtenThe Theology ofJoseph Ratzinger (1988), a book on the theological history ofAnglicanism inThe Panther and the Hind (1992) and a more general work on religion in the modern world,Christendom Awake (1993).
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