Nicholas Lash
Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash (born 1934) is an English Roman Catholic theologian. After serving in the British Army, and working for a short while as a Roman Catholic priest, he held for twenty years the post of Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1999, succeeding Donald MacKinnon, and being succeeded by Denys Turner.
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