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Richard Alan Burridge (born 11 June 1955) is a Church of England priest, biblical scholar and a former Dean of King's College London.
Sep 28, 2018 · Richard Burridge is a respected academic and social commentator on the Bible and Christianity. He has written books on the Gospels, the Eucharist, and religious violence, and speaks on various topics related to faith and society.
A quiet revolution has taken place in the scholarly understanding of the Gospel genre since the publication of Richard Burridge’s What Are the Gospels? in 1992, reversing the earlier consensus that the canonical Gospels should not be considered biographies.
Richard Burridge is a scholar of Jesus and the Gospels, and a former Dean of King's College London. He has received the Ratzinger Prize and the Lancelot Andrewes Medal for his work on Gospel genre and New Testament ethics.
At his election as Dean in 1993, Professor Burridge was the youngest ever Dean of King’s, and in July 2016 he became the longest serving Dean, passing the record of the Very Revd Sydney Evans after 8,026 days of service.
Richard A. Burridge is an internationally recognised biblical scholar, ethicist, theologian and social commentator, who has published over a dozen books and hundreds of other...