Peter Richard Baelz (1923-2000) was an
Anglican
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priest and theologian.
Born on 27 July 1923, he was educated at
Dulwich College
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and
Cambridge University
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, where he won a tennis blue. He trained for ordination at
Westcott House, Cambridge
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, and was ordained in 1950 and began his career with
curacies in
Bournville
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and
Sherborne
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. After this he held
incumbencies at
Wishaw, Warwickshire
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and
Bournville, Birmingham. From 1960 to 1972 he was
Fellow
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and
Dean
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of
Jesus College, Cambridge
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and a
Lecturer
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in
Divinity
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. From 1972 to 1980, he was
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the
University of Oxford
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and finally
Dean
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People
* Dean (given name)
* Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin
* Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk
* Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean
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of Durham from 1980 until 1988. An eminent author,
[Amongst other titles he wrote "Prayer and Providence", 1968; "Ethics and Belief", 1977; "Does God Answer Prayer?", 1982; "Embracing the Chaos", 1990; and "Veritatis Splendor: a response", 1994 ]British Library
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web site accessed 18:12 GMT Friday 6 November 2009 he died on 15 March 2000. The last Ph.D. candidate he supervised was
John C. Knapp.
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1923 births
People educated at Dulwich College
Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge
Deans of Durham
English Anglican theologians
2000 deaths
Regius Professors of Moral and Pastoral Theology
20th-century Anglican theologians
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