Dennis Eric Nineham was a British theologian and academic, who served as Warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1979, as well as holding chairs in theology at the universities of London, Cambridge, and Bristol.
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Dennis Nineham studied Literae Humaniores and theology at The Queen's College, Oxford.
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Dennis Nineham graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943.
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Dennis Nineham then entered Lincoln Theological College, an Anglican theological college, to undertake a year's training in preparation for the ordained ministry of the Church of England.
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Dennis Nineham then served as Assistant Chaplain at Queen's College, Oxford.
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Dennis Nineham was appointed professor of Biblical and historical theology at King's College London in 1954, becoming professor of divinity at the University of London in 1958.
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Dennis Nineham returned to Oxford in 1969, as warden of Keble College, a post that he held until 1979; he was appointed to an honorary fellowship of Keble in the following year, and to an honorary fellowship of Queen's in 1991.
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Dennis Nineham's publications include The Study of Divinity, The Gospel of Saint Mark, The Use and Abuse of the Bible and Christianity Mediaeval and Modern.
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Dennis Nineham edited various theological works, contributed to others, including The Myth of God Incarnate, and made a number of television appearances, including as part of the controversial Channel 4 series, Jesus: The Evidence in 1984.
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Dennis Nineham died from complications of heart disease at a care home in Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, on 9 May 2016, at the age of 94, six weeks after his wife's death.