Gordon Strachan (minister) explained
| Gordon Strachan |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Cheam, England, United Kingdom |
| Death Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Minister, theologian, lecturer, author |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Elspeth |
| Children: | Christopher |
Charles Gordon Strachan (24 January 1934 – 7 July 2010) was a Church of Scotland minister, theologian, university lecturer and author.[1] He was regarded as a radical thinker with unorthodox views, such as his claim that Jesus may have travelled to Britain during his lost years to study with the Druids.[2] [3] [4]
After attending St Edward's School, Oxford, Strachan went on to graduate with a degree in history from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in theology from New College, Edinburgh.[5] The subject of his doctoral thesis was Edward Irving, a 19th-century Scottish divine denounced as a heretic. Strachan was active in the Iona Community, taught courses at the Office of Lifelong Learning and lectured in the Department of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
Strachan wrote a number of books including Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity, which was the basis of a 45-minute documentary titled And Did Those Feet (2009) by Ted Harrison.[6]
Bibliography
- Pentecostal Theology of Edward Irving (1973)
- Freeing the Feminine (1985), co-authored with his wife Elspeth
- Christ and the Cosmos (1985), later republished as The Bible's Hidden Cosmology (2005)
- Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity (1998)
- Chartres: Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space (2003)
- The Return of Merlin: Star Lore and the Patterns of History (2006)
- Prophets of Nature: Green Spirituality in Romantic Poetry and Painting (2008)
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Notes and References
- Web site: The Times obituary.
- News: The Guardian obituary . London . Jan. Fairley. 9 August 2010.
- News: Minister with a modern approach to philosophy . Edinburgh . The Scotsman. 19 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20220707153045/http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/appreciation-gordon-strachan-2452907. 7 Jul 2022.
- Web site: Jesus in Britain . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110926032434/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3271/jesus_in_britain.html . 2011-09-26 .
- Web site: St Edward's Oxford Obituaries. 5 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613155407/http://www.stedwards.oxon.sch.uk/ose-obituaries.html. 13 June 2011. dead.
- News: Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic . BBC News . 26 November 2009.
