Broughton Knox

{{short description|Australian academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} '''David Broughton Knox''' (26 December 1916 – 14 January 1994) was principal of Moore Theological College<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acl.asn.au/resources/david-broughton-knox-what-we-owe-to-him/|title=David Broughton Knox: What we Owe to Him|work=Anglican Church League, Sydney, Australia|accessdate=23 May 2015}}</ref> from 1959 until 1985;<ref>[http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/adeb/k/knox-david-broughton-1916-1994/ Web Journals] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111101252/http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/adeb/k/knox-david-broughton-1916-1994/ |date=11 November 2013 }}</ref> and considered by some as the "Father of Contemporary Sydney Anglicanism".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/19051.htm|title=John Mark Ministries - An Enigmatic Life: David Broughton Knox|work=jmm.org.au/|date=29 January 2007 |accessdate=23 May 2015}}</ref>

Knox was born in Adelaide and educated at Knox Grammar School and the University of Sydney. He was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1942. After two years as a curate in Cambridge in England he was a RNVR chaplain during World War II. He began his long association with Moore Theological College in 1947.

In 1986, a ''Festschrift'' was published in his honour. ''God who is Rich in Mercy: Essays presented to Dr. D. B. Knox'' included contributions from Donald W. B. Robinson, James I. Packer, Graeme Goldsworthy, Francis I. Andersen, Paul W. Barnett, Leon Morris, William J. Dumbrell, F. F. Bruce, Peter T. O'Brien, David G. Peterson, Marcus Loane, Klaas Runia, Peter F. Jensen, and Geoffrey W. Bromiley.<ref>{{cite book |title=Front cover image for God who is rich in mercy : essays presented to Dr. D.B. Knox God who is rich in mercy : essays presented to Dr. D.B. Knox |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=15746493 }}</ref>

Muriel Porter suggests that Knox's appointment as principal was "one of the most important events for the shaping of the Sydney Diocese as it is today", particularly in the way Knox's theology emphasised propositional revelation and his ecclesiology emphasised the local church.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Porter|first1=Muriel|author-link=Muriel Porter|title=The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church|date=2006|pages=47–52}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * {{Cite book |last=Loane |first=Marcus L. |title=Broughton Knox : principal of Moore College, 1959-1985 |date=1994 |publisher=Moore Theological College |others=Peter F. Jensen |isbn=0-909443-21-1 |location=Newtown, NSW |oclc=33038341 |author-link=Marcus Loane}} * {{Cite book |last=Cameron |first=Marcia Helen |title=An enigmatic life : David Broughton Knox, father of contemporary Sydney Anglicanism |date=2006 |publisher=Acorn Press Ltd |isbn=0-908284-60-8 |location=Brunswick East, Vic. |oclc=70238761}} * http://thebriefing.com.au/2011/12/knoxrobinson-for-today-extended/

{{Succession box| before=Marcus Loane| title=Principal of Moore Theological College| years=1959–1985 | after=Peter Jensen }} {{S-end}}

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