My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » David Jenkins RIP Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: David Jenkins RIP Polly Plummer Shipmate # 13354 Posted                        Sad to hear of his passing. Before he became a professor or a bishop, he was chaplain of the Queen's College, Oxford, and my tutor for doctrine. He seemed at the time to have the best brain I had ever met, talking faster than most of us could think: keeping up with him was a breathless and exhilarating exercise. He was also very kind and supportive. My favourite memory is of him standing at the entrance to the university church after the first of his Bampton Lectures (later published as The Glory of Man) holding a small child in each hand while receiving congratulations from learned colleagues. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Posts: 577 | Registered: Jan 2008  |  IP: Logged Dafyd Shipmate # 5549 Posted                        Amen. -------------------- we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams Posts: 10567 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Feb 2004  |  IP: Logged Zappa Ship's Wake # 8433 Posted                        An inspirational man, and though I never heard him his writings alone inspired and nurtured my faith. RIP -------------------- shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/ Posts: 18917 | From: "Central" is all they call it | Registered: Sep 2004  |  IP: Logged leo Shipmate # 1458 Posted                           I met hIM when his dementia was starting - he was still inspirational. -------------------- My Jewish-positive lectionary blog is at http://recognisingjewishrootsinthelectionary.wordpress.com/ My reviews at http://layreadersbookreviews.wordpress.com Posts: 23198 | From: Bristol | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Robert Armin All licens'd fool # 182 Posted                       I heard him speak many years ago, when the ordination of women as priests was still being debated. The talk was wonderful - about taking the difficult option and living by faith - but one aside sticks in my mind. He confessed that in Synod he had to restrain himself from saying: "Yes, we know that John Selwyn Gummer will cross to Rome if this motion goes through. However, there are other good reasons for supporting it." -------------------- Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin Posts: 8927 | From: In the pack | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Zappa Ship's Wake # 8433 Posted                        -------------------- shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/ Posts: 18917 | From: "Central" is all they call it | Registered: Sep 2004  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0