The Revd Dr John Hughes R I P

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THE Revd Dr John Hughes, who was killed in a car accident on 29 June, aged 35, was a leading theologian of his generation. In the words of the Revd Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, “John possessed a dazzling quick sense of fun and a generous, penetrating intelligence. His work dances with intellectual agility, always saying something distinct and theologically profound.” John’s death has left the Church poorer both in heart and mind. He is survived by his parents, Hywel and Janet.

 

Please remember him in your prayers I knew him from visits to Australia

 

 I was struck by the passage from the late Fr. John Hughes’ work "The End of Work"

 

"For the life of faith, lived liturgically, everything is superfluity, grace, and yet, when we have done everything, offered all our work, we must still say that ‘we are unprofitable servants’, precisely because all true work, inasmuch as it participates in God’s work, is not ours but is given to us. Likewise, while we can have no control over the issue of our labour in this life, cannot secure it against being thwarted; nevertheless, we trust, in the hope of the Resurrection, that no good work will ultimately be lost."

Amen.