Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash was an English Roman Catholic theologian.
10 Facts About Nicholas Lash
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Nicholas Lash was commissioned in the British Army on 10 January 1953 as a second lieutenant, as part of his national service.
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Nicholas Lash was moved to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 29 August 1957, thereby ending his military service.
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Nicholas Lash studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at St Mary's College, Oscott, between 1957 and 1963.
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Nicholas Lash was the author of numerous theological books and was a regular contributor to The Tablet.
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Nicholas Lash was reportedly one of the few Catholic theologians to have read the whole of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and the whole of Karl Rahner's Theological Investigations.
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Nicholas Lash helped organize the 1973 symposium at Maynooth on Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology.
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Nicholas Lash was born to Joan Mary Moore, a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Nicholas Lash, an officer in the British Indian Army.
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Nicholas Lash had an elder brother, Father Ephrem Lash, who became an Eastern Orthodox archimandrite and prominent translator of patristic and liturgical texts.
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Nicholas Lash was educated at Worth Preparatory School and Downside School.