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Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch, Knight, FBA, FSA, FRHistS is a professor of history of the church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St... Cross College, Oxford . Though ordained as a deacon in the Church of England, he declined ordination to the priesthood because of the church's attitude to his homosexuality. In 2009 he encapsulated the evolution of his religious beliefs: "I was brought up in the presence of the Bible, and I remember with affection what it was like to hold a dogmatic position on the statements of Christian belief. I would now describe myself as a candid friend of Christianity." Diarmaid MacCulloch was born in Kent, England. He attended Hillcroft Preparatory School and Stowmarket Grammar school in Suffolk. He subsequently studied history at Churchill College, Cambridge where he subsequently obtained a BA degree in 1972 and an MA degree 1976. During that period, he was also organ scholar at the college.
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Francis George Steiner, FBA , is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He... has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath", saying that he is "often credited with recasting the role of the critic". Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world." English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time." Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, saw him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them." Steiner was Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva , Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow at the University of Oxford and Professor of Poetry at Harvard University .
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