David Lochhead
Canadian theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Morgan Lochhead was born in Montreal, where he attended McGill University. En route to his degrees in science, theology and philosophy of religion, he also studied at Union College, and in Oxford and Chicago. Ordained in 1962, he served two United Church parishes in Quebec and Ontario. At an unusually early stage in his career, David was named to that role of "teacher of the church" which he never relinquished, holding posts at St. Paul's College, Waterloo, Coughlan College, St. John's, Newfoundland, and from 1978 at Vancouver School of Theology. These were the institutions that served as his base; the world of religious thought and life was his parish. David was no "ivory-tower" academic. He thought with and for the Church. To peruse his publications is to identify issues that were central in Canadian Christian life during the more than thirty years of his professional ministry. In the `70's he wrote two small and highly influential books: The Liberation of the Bible. called us to free Scripture from the spiritual strait-jackets into which we had placed it; while The Lordship of Jesus challenged liberal Canadian churches to wrestle seriously with the meaning of their Christology.
