Richard Harries
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Image:RichardHarries20040428 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg The Right Reverend Richard Douglas Harries (born June 1936) is a Church of England bishop, currently the 41st Bishop of Oxford.
Educated at Wellington College, Harries is a liberal reformer noted for his opposition to Section 28 and for his appointment of the gay canon Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading in 2003, from which Jeffrey John subsequently withdrew amid controversy over homosexual clergy. In 2002 Harries joined the biologist Richard Dawkins in denouncing the Emmanuel Schools Foundation for teaching creationism. He was Dean of Kings College, London before his appointment as the 41st bishop of Oxford in 1987, and took his seat in the House of Lords in 1993.
On 25 October 2005 it was announced that he would retire on his 70th birthday in June 2006.
Writings by Richard Harries
- Should a Christian Support Guerillas? (1982)
- Authority of Divine Love (1983)
- Time of the Spirit: Readings Through the Christian Year (eds. Harries, George Every, and Kallistos Ware) (1984)
- Prayer and the Pursuit of Happiness (1985)
- Christianity and War in a Nuclear Age (1986)
- One Genius: Readings Through the Year with Austin Farrer (1987)
- C. S. Lewis: the Man and his God (1987)
- Christ is Risen (1988)
- Is There a Gospel for the Rich? Christian Obedience in a Capitalist World (1992)
- Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding (1994)
- After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0199263132
- Passion in Art, Ashgate, 2004, ISBN 0754650111
- Abraham's Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation, Richard Harries, Norman Solomon, Timothy Winter, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 0567081613