John Vernon Taylor
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John Vernon Taylor was a priest, born September 11 1914; died January 30 2001.
After a spell as a missionary in Africa, he returned to England, becoming General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1963 to 1973 succeeding Max Warren, and then Bishop of Winchester from 1974 to 1984.
He was the first priest to be consecrated directly to the see of Winchester since the Middle Ages, and was much respected throughout the diocese and beyond.
He wrote little, but what he did write was informed by a prophetic and poetic vision.
The most notable of his books were "The Go-Between God" and "The Christlike God", both of which remain in print.
[edit] Bibliograpy
- The Primal Vision: Christian Presence amid African Religion (London: SCM 1963; New Edition, SCM Classics 2001)
- The Go-Between God: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission (London: SCM 1972; New Edition, SCM Classics 2002).
- For All the World (1966)
- Enough is enough (London: SCM: 1975)
- The Growth of the Church in Buganda: An Attempt at Understanding (1980)
- Weep Not for Me: Meditations on the Cross and the Resurrection (1986)
- The Christlike God (London: SCM 1992).
- Bishops on the Bible: Eight Bishops on the Role and Relevance of the Bible Today (1994)
- A matter of life and death (London: SCM 1986)
- Kingdom Come (1989)
Posthumous collections:
- The Easter God and his Easter People (2003)
- The Incarnate God (2006)
Biographical:
- "Poet, Priest and Prophet" by David Wood.
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