Education
Richard Finn was educated at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge (Bachelor English, Master of Arts).
Richard Finn was educated at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge (Bachelor English, Master of Arts).
After a period as Chaplain to the University of Leicester he became Assistant Chaplain at Fisher House, Cambridge. He completed a Master of Philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge. Returning to Corpus, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy, producing a thesis entitled The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450), which was supervised by Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey.
lieutenant formed the basis of his book Almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: Christian promotion and practice (313-450) (Oxford.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). He became Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford in September 2004, and is Chair of the advisory board of its Las Casas Institute on ethics, governance and social justice.
He is an adviser to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Torch website.