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Thread: David Jenkins RIP
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Polly Plummer
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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.
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Dafyd
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Amen.
-------------------- we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Robert Armin
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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
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