He has contributed extensively to education and as a result, many schools and colleges (such as Harris Manchester College, Oxford) bear his name.
This academy was the germ of the institution now known as Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
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After attending Sedbergh School, he spent two years at the Manchester Academy, and then studied at the university of Göttingen and university of Edinburgh.
The Farmington Institute for Christian Studies is based at Harris Manchester College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
He was Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1995–96 and Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at The University of Oxford from 1999–2006, where he directed the Ian Ramsey Centre and was a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
He was educated at the Moravian School in Neuwied in the Rhineland-Palatinate on the banks of the River Rhine and then at Manchester New College, London.