John Bowden | |
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| Born | John Stephen Bowden (1935-05-17)17 May 1935 Halifax, England |
| Died | 6 December 2010(2010-12-06) (aged 75) |
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| Employer | SCM Press |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Anglican) |
| Church | Church of England |
| Ordained | 1962 (priest) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Influences | Christopher Evans |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Theology |
| School or tradition | Liberal Christianity |
| Institutions | University of Nottingham |
John Stephen Bowden (17 May 1935 – 6 December 2010) was an EnglishAnglicanpriest, publisher, andtheologian.[1]
Born on 17 May 1935 inHalifax, Yorkshire,[1] Bowden was educated atSt Paul's School, London, andCorpus Christi College, Oxford, where he came under the influence ofChristopher Evans.[2] He was ordained as a priest in theDiocese of Southwell in 1962.[3]
Bowden was a lecturer in theology at theUniversity of Nottingham when, in 1966, he was appointedmanaging director of the religious publisherSCM Press,[4] which published works by leading continental theologians such asMartin Hengel,Gerd Theissen,Edward Schillebeeckx,Hans Küng, andJürgen Moltmann. He held the post until his retirement in 2000.[3]
He translated a number of theological works, includingMartin Noth'sExodus,Aloys Grillmeier'sChrist in Christian Tradition,Martin Hengel'sJudaism and Hellenism (1975), andHenning Graf Reventlow'sThe Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World (1985). Winner of theSchlegel-Tieck Prize twice, for the Hengel and Graf Reventlow translations, in total Bowden translated more than 200 books and authored a number himself.
Bowden died ofprostate cancer on 6 December 2010[2] and was survived by his wife and their three children.[1]
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| Preceded by | Schlegel-Tieck Prize 1975 | Succeeded by Marian Jackson |
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