Laurence William Grensted (1884–1964) was a British

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and

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. He was

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, associated with

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at the

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. Laurence Grensted studied at

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and was subsequently a

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and

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there from 1924 to 1930. He was the author of ''A Short History of the Doctrine of the Atonement'', published in 1920. Grensted delivered the 1930

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at Oxford on ''Psychology and God'', a study of the implications of recent psychology for religious belief and practice. Grensted was a member of the

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. He was later

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and then Canon Emeritus at

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. Photographs of Laurence Grensted are held in the collection of the

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1884 births 1964 deaths Alumni of University College, Oxford Fellows of University College, Oxford Chaplains of University College, Oxford Nolloth Professors of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Canons (priests) 20th-century English Anglican priests {{UK-reli-bio-stub