Alan Trewartha Davies (born 1933) is a Canadian Christian minister and academic who is

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at the

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, Canada. He is also an

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minister in the

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Career

From 1969 to 1989, Davies was lecturer and then associate professor in the religious studies department at Victoria College. From 1989 to 1998, he was professor at the Centre for the Study of Religion of the University of Toronto. Davies conducted research into the relations between Jews and Christians.

Publications

His books ''Anti-Semitism in Canada'' and ''How Silent Were the Churches?'' (with Marilyn F. Nefsky) received

Canadian Jewish Book Awards The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards were a Canadian program of literary awards, managed, produced and presented annually by the Koffler Centre of the Arts to works judged to be the year's best works of literature by Jewish Canadian ...

References

20th-century Canadian Protestant theologians Academic staff of the University of Toronto 1933 births Living people Scholars of antisemitism Canadian biblical scholars Religion academics Ministers of the United Church of Canada {{Canada-Christian-clergy-stub