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The Rev'd. Canon Professor Richard A. Burridge is a biblical scholar, ethicist, theologian, and social commentator who has published over a dozen books and hundreds of other articles or publications. During his career, he has been a schoolmaster, parish priest, university chaplain, academic, and professor, and he served as dean of King’s College London from 1993 to 2019. After leaving London, Burridge became a research fellow in the Department of Theology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and is also a visiting professor at Virginia Theological Seminary in the United States. He is the author of many books, including the groundbreaking What are the Gospels? (1992/2004/2018), for which Pope Francis gave him the 2013 Ratzinger Prize, the first non-Roman Catholic to receive this international award for theological scholarship. Other publications include Four Gospels, One Jesus? (1995/2004/2013) and Imitating Jesus: an Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics (2007); his book Holy Communion in Contagious Times (2022) examines the Eucharist and the digital online world during the COVID-19 pandemic.