Professor Nicholas Lash (centre)
Leading Catholic theologian receives honorary degree from Durham University. An eminent Catholic theologian has been awarded an honorary degree by Durham University in recognition of his work. Professor Nicholas Lash is regarded as one of the most influential Roman Catholic philosophical theologians of our time. Professor Lash spent six years in the Army before training for the priesthood. After resigning from the priesthood in 1976, by which point he was already recognised as an influential voice in Roman Catholic theology, he pursued an academic career. He was elected to the Norris-Hulse Chair of Divinity in 1978, becoming the first Catholic to occupy a chair of theology at either Cambridge or Oxford since the Reformation. Professor Lash is now an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall at Cambridge.
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