Gordon Wakefield

{{Short description|Methodist minister and scholar}}

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Gordon Stevens Wakefield (15 January 1921{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} – 11 September 2000) was a Methodist minister, academic and author.Amongst others he wrote "Puritan Devotion", 1957; "Methodist Devotion", 1966; "The Life of the Spirit in the World of Today", 1969; "Robert Newton Flew", 1971; "Fire of Love", 1976; "The Liturgy of St John", 1985; "John Wesley", 1990; "Bunyan the Christian", 1992; "An Outline of Christian Worship", 1998; and "Medicines for the Heart" > British Library website accessed 11:18 GMT, 10 March 2099.

He was educated at Crewe County Secondary School,{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1357227/The-Reverend-Gordon-Wakefield.html|title=The Reverend Gordon Wakefield|website=Telegraph|date=29 September 2000 |accessdate=2019-03-10}} the University of Manchester, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Wesley House and St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Wakefield was a Methodist circuit minister in Edgware, Woodstock, Stockport, Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol. He was Methodist Connexional Editor from 1963 to 1971; chairman of the Manchester and Stockport Methodist District from 1971 to 1979; principal of Queen's College, Birmingham, from 1979 to 1987{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/20/guardianobituaries.religion|title=Obituaries; The Rev Gordon Wakefield | World news|website=The Guardian|date=20 September 2000|accessdate=2019-03-10}} (and also a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham); chaplain of Westminster College, Oxford, from 1988 to 1989 and director of the Alister Hardy Research Centre{{cite web|url=https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/library/alister-hardy-religious-experience-research-centre/|author=Web Development Team – UWTSD|title=Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre – University of Wales Trinity Saint David|website=uwtsd.ac.uk|accessdate=2019-03-10}} from 1989 to 1992.{{Who's Who | year = 2019 | title=Wakefield, Gordon Stevens | id = U182551 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U182551}}