Gerald Bonner was a conservative Anglican Early Church historian and scholar of religion, who lectured at the Department of Theology of Durham University from 1964 to 1988.
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Gerald Bonner was an author and an internationally distinguished scholar of patristic studies.
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Gerald Bonner was the child of Frederick John Bonner and Constance Emily Bonner.
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Later in their lives, Gerald became a noted Early Church historian and scholar.
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At the age of ten, Gerald Bonner was awarded a scholarship to the Stationers' Company's School in Hornsey, where he was educated, from 1936 to 1944.
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Gerald Bonner worked with the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum, from 1953 until 1964, serving under Bertram Schofield and Theodore Cressy Skeat.
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Gerald Bonner cataloged the letters of David Livingstone, a Christian missionary, and explorer of Africa.
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Gerald Bonner joined the Theology Department at Durham in 1964, and served as resident historian, and teacher of church history until 1988.
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Gerald Bonner's appointment represented an attempt by the university to expand expertise in early Church history.
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Gerald Bonner moved from his old office, and established his new office in the Abbey House.
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Gerald Bonner organised the Bedan Conference of 1973, authored the catalogue for the 1974 Sunderland Exhibition on Bede, and edited a book of essays for the thirteenth centenary of Bede in 1976.
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Gerald Bonner originated courses on St Cuthbert, the most important medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral.
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Gerald Bonner presented a paper for the Cuthbert Conference of 1987, published as St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to AD 1200.
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Gerald Bonner's family moved to America to join him in Washington, DC, after the first year.
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Gerald Bonner was openly critical of the theological pronouncements of David Jenkins, whose elevation to the See of Durham in 1984 he felt obliged to protest.
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Gerald Bonner maintained an association over the years with Eastern Orthodoxy, through the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius.
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Gerald Bonner died on 22 May 2013, at the age of eighty-six.