James Leslie Houlden (1 March 1929 – 3 December 2022) was a British Anglican priest and academic.
[3] In October 1960, he became chaplain and fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in succession to Austin Farrer who had encouraged him to apply.
[3] He couldn't resolve the tensions of the new, combined college, including its "camp" atmosphere, and this led to conflict with its governing body and his eventual resignation.
He said that the New Testament evidence about the resurrection of Jesus was so varied that differences of belief about its character were inevitable.
St Paul's ethical judgments were, he asserted, addressed to particular first-century situations and were not therefore to be universalised.Houlden never married.
[5] [6] In 1994, a Festschrift was published for him, titled "Resurrection: Essays in Honour of Leslie Houlden".