Robert Runcie Quotes


The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."


Citations

Runcie, Robert. Quoted in The Complete Book of Christian Quotations, compiled by J. Stephen Lang, Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.

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Robert Runcie
Robert Runcie
  • Born: October 2, 1921
  • Died: July 11, 2000
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Clergyman

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, MC, PC was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe. He was a leader of the Liberal Anglo-Catholicism movement. He came under attack for expressing compassion towards bereaved Argentines after the Falklands War of 1982, and generated controversy by supporting women's ordination.