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Nicholas Lash (Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash) was born on 6 April, 1934 in India, is an English Roman Catholic theologian (1934–2020). Discover Nicholas Lash's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash
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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 6 April, 1934
Birthday 6 April
Birthplace India
Date of death 11 July, 2020
Died Place Cambridge, England
Nationality India

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His wife is Janet Chalmers (m. 1976)

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Parents Henry Alleyne Lash · Joan Mary Moore
Wife Janet Chalmers (m. 1976)
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Children Dominic Lash

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1930

He had an elder brother, Father Ephrem Lash (Christopher John Alleyne Lash; 3 December 1930 – 15 March 2016), who became an Eastern Orthodox archimandrite and prominent translator of patristic and liturgical texts.

Nicholas also had two sisters: the artist and novelist Susannah Lash and the writer Jini Fiennes.

The latter had seven children, including actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, filmmakers Sophie and Martha Fiennes, conservationist Jacob Fiennes, and musician Magnus Fiennes.

1934

Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash (6 April 1934 – 11 July 2020) was an English Roman Catholic theologian.

1945

Lash was educated at Worth Preparatory School (Jan 1945 – July 1947) and Downside School (Sep 1947 – Dec 1950).

1951

Lash served in the Royal Engineers from 1951 to 1957.

1953

He was commissioned in the British Army on 10 January 1953 as a second lieutenant, as part of his national service.

1954

On 1 October 1954, he was promoted to lieutenant and moved to a short service commission allowing him to continue his army career.

1957

He was moved to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 29 August 1957, thereby ending his military service.

He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at St Mary's College, Oscott, between 1957 and 1963.

After being ordained, he worked as an assistant priest in Slough.

1969

In 1969, he was elected a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, the only college of the University of Cambridge whose college chapel is Roman Catholic.

1970

One of Lash's strongest intellectual influences seems to have been the recovery of Aquinas's theology, using forms of philosophical argument influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, which became influential in the 1970s, associated with Cornelius Ernst and Fergus Kerr.

Arguably his most significant piece of writing was also one of his shortest, his reflections on the Apostles' Creed, which includes discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity.

1971

From 1971 to 1975 he served as Dean of St Edmund's. In 1975 he left the priesthood and became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge.

1973

He helped organize the 1973 symposium at Maynooth on Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology.

Lash was born to Joan Mary Moore, a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash, an officer in the British Indian Army.

1975

Having served in the British Army, he trained for Holy Orders at St Mary's College, Oscott, and worked as a Catholic priest until 1975.

1976

After leaving the priesthood, Lash married Janet in 1976.

Together they had a son, Dominic.

His books include

1978

He left the priesthood and turned to full-time academia, working as a lecturer and then Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity (1978–1999) at the University of Cambridge.

From 1978 to 1999 he held the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, succeeding Donald MacKinnon, and being succeeded by Denys Turner.

Nicholas Lash was the author of numerous theological books, and was a regular contributor to The Tablet.

A Roman Catholic, and considered a liberal, Lash voiced strong but measured criticism of practices among leading figures in his tradition, arguing for open debate on a variety of topics, including the ordination of women.

He was reportedly one of the few Catholic theologians to have read the whole of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and the whole of Karl Rahner's Theological Investigations.