{{short description|Anglo-Catholic priest and Christian socialist (1939–2015)}} {{Infobox clergy | honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]] | name = Kenneth Leech | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = <!--or: image_caption --> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|06|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], England | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2015|09|12|1939|06|15|df=yes}}}} | death_place = [[Manchester]], England | residence = | other_names = Ken Leech | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | [[King's College, London]] | [[Trinity College, Oxford]] | [[St Stephen's House, Oxford]]}} | occupation = | years_active = | spouse = {{ubl | {{marriage|Brenda Jordan<ref>Hackney Register September 1967 quarter, Vol 5B, page 1517</ref>|1967|end=divorced}} | {{marriage|Rheta Wall<ref name="Oestreicher 2015">{{cite news |last=Oestreicher |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Oestreicher |date=22 September 2015 |title=The Rev Ken Leech Obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/22/the-rev-ken-leech |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=13 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="Who Was Who"/>|1970|1993|end=div}} | {{marriage|Julie Wood<ref name="Oestreicher 2015"/><ref name="Who Was Who"/>|2014}}}} | children = 1<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/2-october/gazette/obituaries/the-revd-dr-kenneth-leech|title=''Church Times'': "Obituary: The Revd Dr Kenneth Leech", 2 October 2015|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> | parents = | religion = Christianity ([[Anglican]]) | church = [[Church of England]] | ordained = {{hlist | 1964 (deacon) | 1965 (priest)}} | writings = ''True God'' (1985) | congregations = {{unbulleted list | [[Holy Trinity, Hoxton]] | [[St Anne's Church, Soho|St Anne's, Soho]] | [[St Matthew's, Bethnal Green]] | [[St Botolph's Aldgate]] }} | offices_held = | title = | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Kenneth Leech''' (15 June 1939 – 12 September 2015) was an English [[Anglican]] priest and [[Christian socialist]] in the [[Anglo-Catholic]] tradition.
==Life and career== Leech was born into a secular working-class family in [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] in greater Manchester.<ref name="Drummond 2015">{{cite news |last=Drummond |first=Terry |date=2 October 2015 |title=The Revd Dr Kenneth Leech |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/2-october/gazette/obituaries/the-revd-dr-kenneth-leech |url-access=limited |newspaper=Church Times |access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref> As a teenager he became a Christian and a socialist at the same time.{{sfn|Roberts|2015|p=114}}<ref name="Workers' Liberty">{{cite magazine |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |year=2000 |title=Socialism, Christianity and East London |url=http://archive.workersliberty.org/wlmags/wl64/kenleech.htm |magazine=Workers' Liberty |publisher=Alliance for Workers' Liberty |access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |year=1994 |title=Holy Communists |magazine=The Witness |volume=77 |publisher=Episcopal Church Publishing Company |ref=none}}</ref> A speech denouncing apartheid at the [[Free Trade Hall]] in [[Manchester]] in 1956 by [[Trevor Huddleston]], a priest of the [[Community of the Resurrection]] who had just returned from South Africa, had a particularly powerful impact on him.<ref name="Workers' Liberty"/>{{sfn|McGrandle|2004|p=110}} He would remember thinking, "If this faith could drive this man to oppose racism with such passion, perhaps it could drive me too."<ref name="Workers' Liberty"/>{{sfn|Leech|2009|p=307}}
Leech moved to the [[East End of London]] in 1958,{{sfn|Leech|2002b|p=328}} where he began his studies for a degree in history at [[King's College, London]].<ref name="Telegraph obituary">{{cite news |date=23 September 2015 |title=The Reverend Kenneth Leech, Anglican Priest – Obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11885839/The-Reverend-Kenneth-Leech-Anglican-priest-obituary.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> This move, he later wrote, was the real turning point of his life.{{sfn|Leech|2009|p=308}} He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1961<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/41250/the-revd-kenneth-leech|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: Kenneth Leech|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> and then went to [[Trinity College, Oxford]], from which he graduated in 1964.{{sfn|Latham|1999|p=130}} After theological studies at [[St Stephen's House, Oxford]], he was ordained to the diaconate in 1964{{sfn|Byrne|Houlden|1995|p=xvii}} and priesthood in 1965.{{sfnm |1a1=Leech |1y=1991 |1p=37 |2a1=Leech |2y=2002a}} He served in urban London parishes afflicted by poverty and confronted issues of racism and drug abuse. After ordination, he served as a [[curate]] at [[Holy Trinity, Hoxton]] in the East End of London (1964-67)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/41250/the-revd-kenneth-leech|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: Kenneth Leech|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> and then from 1967 to 1971 at [[St Anne's Church, Soho|St Anne's, Soho]].{{sfn|Herbert Ferrara|2004}}
While in Soho, Leech set up the Soho Drug Group (1967){{sfn|Woodward|1990|p=vii}} which ministered to young addicts, many of whom had been drawn into prostitution. In 1969, at the instigation of and in conjunction with Anton Wallich-Clifford and the [[Simon Community]], he established the charity [[Centrepoint (charity)|Centrepoint]] which became the United Kingdom's leading national charity tackling [[youth homelessness]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Gould |first=Mark |date=16 June 2004 |title=Community Spirit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jun/16/charitymanagement.homelessness |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> From 1971 to 1974 he was chaplain and tutor in pastoral studies at [[St Augustine's College, Canterbury]].<ref name="Drummond 2015"/>{{sfn|Leech|1994}} In 1974 he became rector of [[St Matthew's, Bethnal Green|St Matthew's Bethnal Green]]{{sfn|Herbert Ferrara|2004}} where he served until 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/41250/the-revd-kenneth-leech|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: Kenneth Leech|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> While at St Matthew's he became deeply involved in the struggle against the [[National Front (UK)|National Front]] and other racist and fascist groups.{{sfn|Leech|1990|pp=86–98}} In 1974, with [[Rowan Williams]] (who later became the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]) and others, he founded the Jubilee Group,{{sfn|Goddard|2013|pp=23, 35}} a network of Christian socialists in Britain and across the [[Anglican Communion]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/2-october/gazette/obituaries/the-revd-dr-kenneth-leech|title=''Church Times'': "Obituary: The Revd Dr Kenneth Leech", 2 October 2015|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> most of whom were Anglo-Catholics.{{sfnm |1a1=Croft |1y=2016 |2a1=Latham |2y=1999 |2p=16}} In 1980 he became Race Relations Field Officer for the British Council of Churches Community and Race Relations Unit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockford.org.uk/people/41250/the-revd-kenneth-leech|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: Kenneth Leech|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> The following year he was named Race Relations Field Officer of the Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wilkins |first=Richard |year=1989 |title=Britain in Black and White |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8REG3fD7gCoC&pg=PA26 |magazine=Third Way |volume=12 |issue=5 |location=London |page=26 |access-date=14 June 2018}}</ref> In 1986 Ken helped city broker Richard Lester who founded and funded Centrepoint's first dedicated hostel with over 100 beds in London which they then opened with previous Centrepoint success story Martin Shaw .<ref name="BritishHeritage">{{cite web |title=Centrepoint |url=https://britishheritage.org/centrepoint |access-date=2023-12-29 |publisher=British Heritage}}</ref> He was an honorary assistant curate of [[St Clement's Church, Notting Dale]] (1982 to 1988), and of [[St James' Church, Norlands]] (1985 to 1988).<ref name="Who Was Who">{{cite encyclopedia |year=2016 |title=Leech, Rev. Kenneth |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U24151 |url-access=subscription |encyclopedia=Who Was Who |location=London |publisher=A & C Black |access-date=14 June 2017 |via=Oxford University Press}}</ref> He was director of the [[Runnymede Trust]], a think tank dedicated to promoting ethnic diversity in Britain, from 1987 to 1990.<ref name="Telegraph obituary"/> From 1990 until 2004, when he retired from full-time parish ministry, he was community theologian at [[St Botolph's Aldgate]], a church located at the intersection of the [[City of London]] and the [[East End of London|East End]].<ref name="Telegraph obituary"/><ref>{{cite news |date=23 April 2004<!-- Date is based on the article's URL and the reference to the article here: https://archive.today/20070112105450/http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/?p=1304 --> |title=Farewell to the Days of Birettas and Cassocks |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2004/23-april/features/farewell-to-the-days-of-birettas-and-cassocks |url-access=limited |work=Church Times |location=London |access-date=10 October 2017 }}</ref> As archbishop, Rowan Williams awarded him a [[Lambeth degree|Lambeth doctorate]].<ref name="Telegraph obituary"/>
Leech was an advocate of [[contextual theology]].<ref name="Drummond 2015"/> As much as he admired the work of academic theologians,{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} he insisted that authentic Christian theology could not be confined to the academy<ref name="Telegraph obituary"/> or to the pastor's study.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} He believed that it must be grounded in prayer and should be the work of the entire local Christian community across the boundaries of class, race, and sex.{{sfnm |1a1=Leech |1y=1980 |1p=9 |2a1=Leech |2y=2001 |2pp=121–135 |3a1=Leech |3y=2006 |3pp=155–156, 215–223}} At the heart of his faith was what he called "subversive orthodoxy"; the indissoluble union of contemplative spirituality, sacramental worship, orthodox doctrine and social action. He argued that this conjunction of faith and the quest for justice, which points to the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, is the essential mark of the Christian life and underlies scripture, the teachings of the [[Church Fathers]] and the Christian mystical tradition. His work also drew on the radical and even revolutionary strands in Anglo-Catholicism{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} represented by figures such as [[Stewart Headlam]],<ref name="Townley 2015">{{cite news |last=Townley |first=Peter |date=6 October 2015 |title=Reverend Kenneth Leech: Priest who Worked among the Homeless and with Drug Addicts at Centrepoint |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/reverend-kenneth-leech-priest-who-worked-among-the-homeless-and-with-drug-addicts-at-centrepoint-a6683816.html |work=The Independent |location=London |access-date=14 June 2018}}</ref> Thomas Hancock, [[Charles Marson]], [[Percy Widdrington]],{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} [[Conrad Noel]],<ref name="Townley 2015"/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gladwin |first=John |author-link=John Gladwin |year=1989 |title=A Catholic Challenge to the Capitalist Monopoly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nR5SKIg0ZwC&pg=PA11 |magazine=Third Way |volume=12 |issue=9 |location=London |page=11 |access-date=13 June 2018}}</ref> and Stanley Evans.<ref name="Milbank 2017, p. 1">{{cite book |last=Milbank |first=Alison |author-link=Alison Milbank |year=2017 |title=Subversive Orthodoxy |url=http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/userfiles/files/Events/2017/Subversive%20Orthodoxy%20-%20Alison%20Milbank.docx |format=docx |type=speech |location=Liverpool |publisher=Diocese of Liverpool |page=1 |access-date=14 June 2018 |archive-date=15 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615004356/http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/userfiles/files/Events/2017/Subversive%20Orthodoxy%20-%20Alison%20Milbank.docx |url-status=dead }}</ref> He respected the contributions of [[Frederick Denison Maurice|F. D. Maurice]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Milbank |first=Alison |author-link=Alison Milbank |year=2017 |title=Subversive Orthodoxy |url=http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/userfiles/files/Events/2017/Subversive%20Orthodoxy%20-%20Alison%20Milbank.docx |format=docx |type=speech |location=Liverpool |publisher=Diocese of Liverpool |page=2 |access-date=14 June 2018 |archive-date=15 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615004356/http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/userfiles/files/Events/2017/Subversive%20Orthodoxy%20-%20Alison%20Milbank.docx |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Brooke Foss Westcott]], [[Charles Gore]], [[William Temple (bishop)|William Temple]], and other reform-minded Anglican Christian socialists, but thought them often to be too timid and middle class.
Although Leech was critical of [[liberal theology|theological liberalism]], unlike some Anglo-Catholics he supported the [[ordination of women in the Anglican Communion|ordination of women]] and the [[Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion|rights of gay and lesbian people]].<ref name="Drummond 2015"/><ref name="Telegraph obituary"/><ref name="Milbank 2017, p. 1"/>{{sfn|Latham|1999|p=89}} His publications include guides to prayer and [[spiritual direction]], autobiographical reflections on urban ministry and theological critiques of capitalism and social injustice. Of his weightiest theological work, ''True God'' (published in the United States as ''Experiencing God''), the philosopher [[Alasdair MacIntyre]] wrote that "there are few other books that state in so comprehensive a fashion what is at stake in believing or not believing in the God of Catholic Christianity."{{sfn|MacIntyre|2009|p=7}}
Leech died of cancer in Manchester on 12 September 2015.<ref name="Oestreicher 2015"/><ref>{{cite web |last=McColman |first=Carl |date=13 September 2015 |title=In Memoriam: Kenneth Leech |url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/carlmccolman/2015/09/in-memoriam-kenneth-leech/ |department=A Contemplative Faith |website=Patheos |access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref>
== Published works == === Books authored === {{refbegin|35em}} * ''Drugs for Young People: Their Use and Misuse''. With Jordan, Brenda. Oxford: Religious Education Press. 1967. * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Pastoral Care and the Drug Scene |location=London |publisher=SPCK |year=1970 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Keep the Faith, Baby: A Close-Up of London's Drop-Outs |location=London |publisher=SPCK |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-281-02717-0 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Youthquake: The Growth of a Counter-Culture Through Two Decades |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-85969-002-7 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=A Practical Guide to the Drug Scene |edition=rev. |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1974 |orig-year=1970 |isbn=978-0-85969-004-1 }}{{efn|This work is a revised edition of ''Pastoral Care and the Drug Scene'', 1970.}} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Soul Friend: A Study of Spirituality |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-85969-113-0 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=True Prayer: An Introduction to Christian Spirituality |url=https://archive.org/details/trueprayerintrod0000leec |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-85969-255-7 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Social God |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-85969-342-4 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=What Everyone Should Know About Drugs |series=Overcoming Common Problems |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-85969-374-5 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=True God: An Exploration in Spiritual Theology |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-85969-388-2 }}{{efn|Also published by Harper & Row in San Francisco with the title ''Experiencing God: Theology as Spirituality''.}} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Spirituality and Pastoral Care |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-85969-520-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/spiritualitypast00leec }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Struggle in Babylon: Racism in the Cities and Churches of Britain |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-85969-577-0 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Care and Conflict: Leaves from a Pastoral Notebook |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-232-51898-6 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Birth of Monster: The Growth of Racist Legislation Since the 1950s |location=London |publisher=Runnymede Trust |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-902397-89-7 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Subversive Orthodoxy: Traditional Faith and Radical Commitment |location=Toronto |publisher=Anglican Book Centre |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-921846-49-9 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Eye of the Storm: Spiritual Resources for the Pursuit of Justice |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-232-51993-8 }}{{efn|Also published by HarperSanFrancisco in San Francisco with the title ''The Eye of the Storm: Living Spiritually in the Real World''.}} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=We Preach Christ Crucified: The Proclamation of the Cross in a Dark Age |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-232-52085-9 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Soul Friend: Spiritual Direction in the Modern World |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1994 |orig-year=1977 |isbn=978-0-232-52058-3 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Sky Is Red: Discerning the Signs of the Times |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-232-52167-2 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Drugs and Pastoral Care |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-232-52182-5 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Through Our Long Exile: Contextual Theology and the Urban Experience |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-232-52334-8 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Race: Changing Society and the Churches |location=London |publisher=SPCK |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-281-05653-8 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=We Preach Christ Crucified |location=New York |publisher=Church Publishing |year=2005 |orig-year=1994 |isbn=978-0-89869-499-4 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Doing Theology in Altab Ali Park |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-232-52571-7 |ref=none }} * ''Prayer and Prophecy: The Essential Kenneth Leech''. Edited by Bunch, David; Ritchie, Angus. London: Darton, Longman and Todd. 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-232-52765-0}}. {{refend}}
=== Books edited === {{refbegin|35em}} * ''The Book of the Lover and the Beloved''. By [[Ramon Llull|Llull, Ramon]]. Editor. Translated by [[Edgar Allison Peers|Peers, E. Allison]]. London: Sheldon Press. 1978. {{ISBN|978-0-85969-142-0}}. * ''Christianity Reinterpreted? A Critical Examination of the 1978 Reith Lectures''. Editor. Jubilee Lent Lectures. '''1979'''. Penarth, Wales: Church in Wales Publications. 1979. {{OCLC|6077350}}. * ''Thatcherism''. Editor. Jubilee Lent Lectures. '''1980'''. London: Jubilee Group. {{OCLC|16615398}}. * ''Till All Be Held Common: Christians and the Debate on Common Ownership Today''. Editor. Jubilee Lent Lectures. '''1981'''. London: Jubilee Group. 1982. {{OCLC|977956955}}. * ''Essays Catholic and Radical''. Edited with [[Rowan Williams|Williams, Rowan]]. London: Bowerdean Press. 1983. {{ISBN|978-0-906097-10-6}}. * ''After Marx''. Editor. Jubilee Lent Lectures. '''1983'''. London: Jubilee Group. 1984. {{OCLC|34876833}}. * ''Letters from Seven Churches: Addressed to the Archbishop's Commission on Urban Priority Areas''. Edited with Drummond, Terry. Jubilee Lent Lectures. '''1984'''. London: Jubilee Group. 1984. {{OCLC|23170385}}. * ''The Bible, Racism and Anti-Semitism''. Editor. Theology and Racism. '''1'''. London: Board for Social Responsibility. 1985. {{OCLC|12643532}}. * ''Conrad Noel and the Catholic Crusade: A Critical Evaluation''. Editor. London: Jubilee Group. 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-11-5}}. * ''Setting the Church of England Free: The Case for Disestablishment''. Editor. London: Jubilee Group. 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-13-9}}. {{refend}}
=== Book chapters === {{refbegin|35em}} * "Stewart Headlam". In [[Maurice Reckitt|Reckitt, Maurice B.]] ''For Christ and the People: Studies of Four Socialist Priests and Prophets of the Church of England Between 1870 and 1930''. London: SPCK. 1968. {{ISBN|978-0-281-02255-7}}. * "The Christian Left in Britain, 1850–1950". In Ambler, Rex; Haslam, David. ''Agenda for Prophets: Towards a Political Theology for Britain''. London: Bowerdean Press. 1980. {{ISBN|978-0-906097-08-3}}. * "Spirituality and Social Justice". In Leech, Kenneth. ''The Study of Spirituality''. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986. pp. 582–583. {{ISBN|978-0-19-504169-9}}. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20180405153636/http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/lovesname.html#gin "Beyond Gin and Lace: Homosexuality and the Anglo-Catholic Subculture"]. In Beck, Ashley; Hunt, Ros. ''Speaking Love's Name: Homosexuality: Some Catholic and Socialist Reflections''. London: Jubilee Group. 1988. pp. 16–27. {{OCLC|19881427}}. Archived from [http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/lovesname.html#gin the original] on 5 April 2018. * "'The Carnality of Grace': Sexuality, Spirituality and Pastoral Ministry". In Woodward, James. ''Embracing the Chaos: Theological Responses to AIDS''. London: SPCK. 1990. pp. 59ff. {{ISBN|978-0-281-04465-8}}. * "The Junkies' Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: Some Remembered Fragments". In Whynes, David K.; [[Philip Bean|Bean, Philip T.]] ''Policing and Prescribing: The British System of Drug Control''. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan. 1991. pp. 35–59. {{doi|10.1007/978-1-349-11451-1}}. {{ISBN|978-0-333-52229-5}}. * "Some Light from the Noel Archives". In Leech, Kenneth. ''Conrad Noel and the Catholic Crusade''. London: Jubilee Group. 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-11-5}}. * "Spirituality and Liberation". In Byrne, Peter; [[Leslie Houlden|Houlden, Leslie]]. ''Companion Encyclopedia of Theology''. London: Routledge. 1995. pp. 642–664. {{doi|10.4324/9780203414033}}. {{ISBN|978-0-415-06447-7}}. * "Introduction". In Leech, Kenneth. ''Setting the Church of England Free: The Case for Disestablishment''. London: Jubilee Group. 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-13-9}}. * "The World Turned Upside Down". In Leech, Kenneth. ''Setting the Church of England Free: The Case for Disestablishment''. London: Jubilee Group. 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-13-9}}. * "The Rebel Church in the Back Streets: Where Are We Now?" In Bradstock, Andrew; [[Christopher Rowland (theologian)|Rowland, Christopher]]. ''Radical Christian Writings: A Reader''. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 2002. pp. 328–331. {{ISBN|978-0-631-22249-1}}. * "Evans, Stanley George (1912–1965)". In [[Colin Matthew|Matthew, H. C. G.]]; [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Harrison, Brian]]. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/50500}}. {{ISBN|978-0-19-861411-1}}. * "Groser, St John Beverley (1890–1966)". In [[Colin Matthew|Matthew, H. C. G.]]; [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Harrison, Brian]]. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/66048}}. {{ISBN|978-0-19-861411-1}}. * "Noel, Conrad Le Despenser Roden (1869–1942)". In [[Colin Matthew|Matthew, H. C. G.]]; [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Harrison, Brian]]. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/37813}}. {{ISBN|978-0-19-861411-1}}. * "Williamson, Joseph (1895–1988)". In [[Colin Matthew|Matthew, H. C. G.]]; [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Harrison, Brian]]. ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/66834}}. {{ISBN|978-0-19-861411-1}}. {{refend}}
=== Journal articles === {{refbegin|35em}} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=What Has Happened to Christian Social Theology? |journal=Theology |volume=68 |issue=537 |pages=134–139 |year=1965 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X6506853704 |s2cid=171956824 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Migration and the British Population, 1955–1962 |journal=Race |volume=7 |issue=4 |year=1966 |pages=401–408 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/030639686600700407 |s2cid=143870535 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Housing and Immigration, Crisis in London |journal=Race |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=329–343 |year=1967 |issn=0306-3968 |doi=10.1177/030639686700800401 |s2cid=154135973 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Hippies and Beyond |journal=The Modern Churchman |volume=16 |issue=supplement |pages=82–92 |issn=0026-7597 |doi=10.3828/MC.16.0.82 |year=1972 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Role of the Voluntary Agencies in the Various Aspects of Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers |journal=Addiction |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=131–136 |year=1972 |issn=0965-2140 |doi=10.1111/j.1360-0443.1972.tb01182.x |pmid=4507314 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Famine of the Spirit |journal=Theology |volume=77 |issue=647 |pages=239–241 |year=1974 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X7407700503 |s2cid=147647618 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Resurrection of the Catholic Social Voice |journal=Theology |volume=77 |issue=654 |pages=630–637 |year=1974 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X7407701204 |s2cid=170669860 }}{{efn|Also published on its own by the Jubilee Group in London with the title ''The Resurrection of the Catholic Social Voice'' ({{ISBN|978-0-905595-00-9}}).}} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Believing in the Incarnation |journal=Theology |volume=79 |issue=668 |pages=68–76 |year=1976 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X7607900202 |s2cid=171038346 }}{{efn|Also published on its own by the Jubilee Group in London with the title ''Believing in the Incarnation and Its Consequences'' ({{ISBN|978-0-85191-089-5}}).}} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Spiritual Direction and Psychotherapy |journal=Contact |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=13–20 |year=1978 |issn=1352-0806 |doi=10.1080/13520806.1978.11759387 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Pastor's Problems: I. The Pastor and His Devotional Life |journal=The Expository Times |volume=91 |issue=12 |pages=356–358 |year=1980 |issn=0014-5246 |doi=10.1177/001452468009101202 |s2cid=170139134 |ref=none }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Liberating Theology: The Thought of Juan Luis Segundo |journal=Theology |volume=84 |issue=700 |pages=258–266 |year=1981 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X8108400404 |s2cid=170400527 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=First Aid in Pastoral Care: V. Drug Abuse |journal=The Expository Times |volume=95 |issue=11 |pages=324–328 |year=1984 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/001452468409501102 |s2cid=170964833 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=First Aid in Pastoral Care: XI. Race and Racism |journal=The Expository Times |volume=96 |issue=5 |pages=132–136 |year=1985 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/001452468509600502 |s2cid=141490337 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Some Recent Trends in Catholic Social Theology |journal=Theology |volume=88 |issue=725 |pages=365–374 |year=1985 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X8508800505 |s2cid=147279981 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title='Diverse Reports' and the Meaning of 'Racism' |journal=Race & Class |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=82–88 |year=1986 |issn=0306-3968 |doi=10.1177/030639688602800206 |s2cid=144746357 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Dark Night and Revolution: St John of the Cross and Karl Marx |journal=The Modern Churchman |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=1–10 |year=1987 |issn=0026-7597 |doi=10.3828/MC.29.4.1 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Thomas Merton as a Theologian of Resistance |journal=Theology |volume=91 |issue=744 |pages=464–473 |year=1988 |issn=0040-571X |doi=10.1177/0040571X8809100603 |s2cid=170525313 }} * {{cite journal |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Was Our Heroin Problem Necessary? |journal=Addiction Research |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=79–82 |year=1997 |issn=1606-6359 |doi=10.3109/16066359709005251 }} {{refend}}
=== Other === {{refbegin|35em}} * {{cite newsletter |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Area Reports on Cities and Boroughs with Substantial Immigrant Settlements: Stepney (East London) |type=supplement |work=Institute of Race Relations Newsletter |location=London |publisher=Institute of Race Relations |date=November 1964 |oclc=22629914 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Drug Subculture: A Christian Analysis |series=Drug Dependence in Britain |volume=3 |location=London |publisher=Church Information Office |year=1969 |isbn=978-0-7151-6503-4 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Action for Revival |location=London |publisher=Church Literature Association |year=1974 |oclc=491013552 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Catholic Theology and Social Change |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-905595-02-3 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Contemplation and Resistance: As Seen in the Spirituality of Thomas Merton |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-905595-03-0 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Charismatic Movement and the Demons |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1976 |oclc=16370978 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Brick Lane 1978: The Events and Their Significance |location=Birmingham |publisher=AFFOR |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-907127-03-1 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The False Prophets of Reassurance |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1980 |oclc=499566230 |ref=none }} * "Introduction". In Leicester Consultation. ''The Church of England and Racism''. London: Board for Social Responsibility. 1981. {{OCLC|25142573}}. * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Race Today |series=Race Relations Fieldwork Background Papers |volume=2 |location=London |publisher=Board of Social Responsibility |year=1981 |oclc=31329437 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Religion and the Rise of Racism |series=Tawney Memorial Lectures |volume=5 |publisher=Christian Socialist Movement |year=1982 |oclc=10127587 }} * ''The Bishops and the Economy: A Jubilee Group Symposium of Responses to the American Roman Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy''. Editor. London: Jubilee Group. 1985. {{OCLC|29762492}}. * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Prayer and Prophecy: Some Reflections on the British Urban Scene |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Ascension Press |year=1986 |oclc=23148812 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Silence and Ministry |location=Oxford |publisher=SLG Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-7283-0118-4 }} * ''Julian Reconsidered''. With [[Benedicta Ward|Ward, Benedicta]]. Oxford: SLG Press. 1988. {{ISBN|978-0-7283-0122-1}}. * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=A Question in Dispute: The Debate About an 'Ethnic' Question in the Census |location=London |publisher=Runnymede Trust |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-902397-79-8 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Radical Anglo-Catholic Social Vision |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwR0Zk5WME8C |series=Discussion Papers (Centre for Theology and Public Issues) |volume=2 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=University of Edinburgh |year=1989 |oclc=606104937 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Gospel, The Catholic Church and the World: The Social Theology of Michael Ramsey |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1990 |oclc=28403686 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=The Anglo-Catholic Social Conscience: Two Critical Essays |location=London |publisher=Jubilee Group |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-905595-08-5 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Race, Class and Homelessness in Britain and the USA |series=Founders' Lectures |volume=1993 |location=London |publisher=Catholic Housing Aid Society |year=1993 |isbn=978-1-897674-04-8 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Brick Lane 1978: The Events and Their Significance |url=https://libcom.org/files/Brick-Lane-1978.pdf |url-status=live |location=London |publisher=Stepney Books |year=1994 |orig-year=1980 |isbn=978-0-9505241-9-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628112159/https://libcom.org/files/Brick-Lane-1978.pdf |archive-date=28 June 2019 |ref=none }} * {{cite magazine |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Holy Communists |magazine=The Witness |volume=77 |publisher=Episcopal Church Publishing Company |year=1994 |ref=none }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Politics and the Faith Today: Catholic Social Vision for the 1990s |series=Affirming Catholicism |location=London |publisher=Dartman, Longman and Todd |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-232-52080-4 |ref=none }} * ''Who Will Sound the Trumpet? The Jubilee Group and the Future of the Left''. Editor. London: Jubilee Group. 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-905595-12-2}}. * ''Myers–Briggs: Some Critical Reflections''. Editor. London: Jubilee Group. 1996. {{OCLC|38234278}}. * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |display-authors=0 |title=Drugs and the Church: A Background Paper for the Board for Social Responsibility |location=London |publisher=Church of England |year=1998 |oclc=41463498 |id=GS Misc. 527 }} {{refend}}
== Notes == {{notelist|35em}}
== References == === Citations === {{reflist}}
=== Works cited === {{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}} * {{cite book |year=1995 |editor1-last=Byrne |editor1-first=Peter |editor2-last=Houlden |editor2-first=Leslie |editor2-link=Leslie Houlden |title=Companion Encyclopedia of Theology |location=London |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203414033 |isbn=978-0-415-06447-7 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Croft |first=W. S. |year=2016 |title=Anglo-Catholic Theology |editor1-last=Davie |editor1-first=Martin |editor2-last=Grass |editor2-first=Tim |editor3-last=Holmes |editor3-first=Stephen R. |editor4-last=McDowell |editor4-first=John |editor5-last=Noble |editor5-first=T. A. |encyclopedia=New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic |edition=2nd |location=Downers Grove, Illinois |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-7962-5 }} * {{cite book |last=Goddard |first=Andrew |year=2013 |title=Rowan Williams: His Legacy |location=Oxford |publisher=Lion Books |isbn=978-0-7459-5762-3 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |editor-last=Herbert Ferrara |editor-first=Miranda |title=Leech, Kenneth |encyclopedia=The Writers Directory, 2005 |publisher=St. James Press }} * {{cite thesis |last=Latham |first=Steven Foster |year=1999 |title="Is There Any Word from the Lord?" Schools of Contemporary Christian Prophecy |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/2927162/343740.pdf |degree=PhD |location=London |publisher=King's College, London |access-date=2 October 2017 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |year=1980 |title=True Prayer: An Introduction to Christian Spirituality |url=https://archive.org/details/trueprayerintrod0000leec |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Sheldon Press |isbn=978-0-85969-255-7 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=1990 |title=Care and Conflict: Leaves from a Pastoral Notebook |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-51898-6 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=1991 |chapter=The Junkies' Doctors and the London Drug Scene in the 1960s: Some Remembered Fragments |editor1-last=Whynes |editor1-first=David K. |editor2-last=Bean |editor2-first=Philip T. |editor2-link=Philip Bean |title=Policing and Prescribing: The British System of Drug Control |location=Basingstoke, England |publisher=Macmillan |pages=35–59 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-11451-1 |isbn=978-0-333-52229-5 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=1994 |orig-year=1977 |title=Soul Friend: Spiritual Direction in the Modern World |edition=rev. |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Morehouse Publishing |publication-date=2001 |isbn=978-0-8192-2539-9 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2001 |title=Through Our Long Exile: Contextual Theology and the Urban Experience |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-52334-8 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2002a |orig-year=1985 |title=Experiencing God: Theology as Spirituality |location=Eugene, Oregon |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-57910-613-3 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2002b |chapter=The Rebel Church in the Back Streets: Where Are We Now? |editor1-last=Bradstock |editor1-first=Andrew |editor2-last=Rowland |editor2-first=Christopher |editor2-link=Christopher Rowland (theologian) |title=Radical Christian Writings: A Reader |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Publishers |pages=328–331 |isbn=978-0-631-22249-1 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2006 |title=Doing Theology in Altab Ali Park |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-52571-7 }} * {{cite book |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |author-mask={{long dash}} |year=2009 |editor1-last=Bunch |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Ritchie |editor2-first=Angus |title=Prayer and Prophecy: The Essential Kenneth Leech |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-52765-0 }} * {{cite book |contributor-last=MacIntyre |contributor-first=Alasdair |contributor-link=Alasdair MacIntyre |contribution=Preface |last=Leech |first=Kenneth |year=2009 |editor1-last=Bunch |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Ritchie |editor2-first=Angus |title=Prayer and Prophecy: The Essential Kenneth Leech |location=London |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-52765-0 }} * {{cite book |last=McGrandle |first=Piers |year=2004 |title=Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent Priest |location=London |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-0-8264-7123-9 }} * {{cite thesis |last=Roberts |first=Nicholas |year=2015 |title=Psychological and Theological Theories of Addiction: Towards an Integrated Study |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/46325643/2015_Roberts_Nicholas_John_0750224_ethesis.pdf |degree=PhD |location=London |publisher=King's College, London |access-date=2 October 2017 }} * {{cite book |year=1990 |editor-last=Woodward |editor-first=James |title=Embracing the Chaos: Theological Responses to AIDS |location=London |publisher=SPCK |isbn=978-0-281-04465-8 }} {{refend}}
== Further reading == {{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}} * Bishopsgate Institute (2022). [https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/kenneth-leech-archive Kenneth Leech Archive]. Edited by Ez Little. * {{cite thesis |last=Bunch |first=David |year=2011 |title=Social Trinitarianism and Contextual Theology: A Critical Evaluation of the Theology, Ministry, and Politics of Kenneth Leech |degree=DMin |location=London |publisher=King's College, London }} * {{cite thesis |last=Davis |first=Valerie Dawn |year=1982 |title=Moral and Ascetical Components in the Theologies of F.P. Harton and Kenneth Leech |type=MA dissertation |location=New York |publisher=General Theological Seminary }} * {{cite thesis |last=Driskell |first=Joseph D. |year=1995 |title=The Psychological and Theological Anthropologies of Seward Hiltner and Kenneth Leech: Toward a Synthesis Suitable for Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction |degree=PhD |publisher=Graduate Theological Union }}
* {{cite thesis |last=Taylor |first=Andrew W. |year=1985 |title=The Social Dimensions of Christian Spirituality in the Thought of Kenneth Leech |url=http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65999&local_base=GEN01-MCG02 |type=MA dissertation |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill University |access-date=19 November 2019 }} * {{cite thesis |last=Toews |first=Richard |year=1997 |title=The Jubilee Group in the Church of England: The Prophetic Voice of a Community in ''Ekklesia'' |url=http://summit.sfu.ca/item/7312 |degree=MA |location=Burnaby, British Columbia |publisher=Simon Fraser University |isbn=978-0-612-24253-1 |access-date=13 June 2018 }} {{refend}}
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