Gordon Strachan (minister)

Charles Gordon Strachan (24 January 1934 – 7 July 2010) was a Church of Scotland minister, theologian, university lecturer and author.^[1] He was regarded as a radical thinker with unorthodox views, such as his claim that Jesus may have travelled to Britain during his lost years to study with the Druids.^[2][3][4]

After attending St Edward's School, Oxford, Strachan went on to obtain a degree in History from Oxford University and a PhD in Theology from New College, Edinburgh.^[5] The subject of his doctoral thesis was Edward Irving, a 19th-century Scottish divine denounced as a heretic. Strachan was active in the Iona Community, taught courses at the Office of Lifelong Learning and lectured in the Department of Architecture at Edinburgh University.^[2][4]

Strachan wrote a number of books including Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity, which was the basis of a 45-minute documentary titled And Did Those Feet (2009) by Ted Harrison.^[6]

Bibliography

• Pentecostal Theology of Edward Irving (1973)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), co-authored with his wife Elspeth
• Christ and the Cosmos (1985), later republished as The Bible's Hidden Cosmology (2005)
• Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity (1998)
• Chartres: Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space (2003)
• The Return of Merlin: Star Lore and the Patterns of History (2006)
• Prophets of Nature: Green Spirituality in Romantic Poetry and Painting (2008)

References

External links

• TV interview – Dr. Gordon Strachan
• Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic - BBC News article
• Blog in memory of Gordon Strachan