John Stephen Bowden (17 May 1935 – 6 December 2010) was an English Anglican priest, publisher, and theologian.
[1] Born on 17 May 1935 in Halifax, Yorkshire,[1] Bowden was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of Christopher Evans.
[3] Bowden was a lecturer in theology at the University of Nottingham when, in 1966, he was appointed managing director of the religious publisher SCM Press,[4] which published works by leading continental theologians such as Martin Hengel, Gerd Theissen, Edward Schillebeeckx, Hans Küng, and Jürgen Moltmann.
[3] He translated a number of theological works, including Martin Noth's Exodus, Aloys Grillmeier's Christ in Christian Tradition, Martin Hengel's Judaism and Hellenism (1975), and Henning Graf Reventlow's The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World (1985).
Bowden died of prostate cancer on 6 December 2010[2] and was survived by his wife and their three children.