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Prize for human rights book
Canon John Nurser, Fellow of the Human Rights
Centre, has been awarded the 2005 Albert C Outler Prize by the Research
Committee for the American Society of Church History.
Awarded for his book, For All Peoples and All Nations:
the Ecumenical Church and Human Rights (Georgetown University Press,
2005), the prize of $1,500 is awarded to the author of the best book
published in the two previous calendar years in ecumenical church history.
The book was described as a ‘masterful contribution to the history of
human rights and ecumenism’ by the Committee.
Canon Nurser has held academic and theological positions
in Britain, Australia and the United States, and published on various
aspects of human rights, ecumenism, and churches.
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