Roger Thomas Beckwith was an English church historian and liturgist who served from 1973 to 1994 as the
Warden
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''Warden'' is etymologically ident ...
of
Latimer House, Oxford. Among his works were
Priesthood and Sacraments',
Elders in Every City: The Origin and Role of the Ordained Ministry', and
The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church'' He served as a vice-president of both the
Church Society and the
Prayer Book Society.
Lord Carey of Clifton, who was then the
Archbishop of Canterbury
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, conferred upon him the degree of
Doctor of Divinity
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(
Lambeth
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) in 1992. He died in 2023.
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The Revd Dr Roger Beckwith
Holders of a Lambeth degree
English Anglicans
Evangelical Anglicans
Anglican liturgists
Evangelical Anglican biblical scholars
Evangelical Anglican theologians
1929 births
2023 deaths
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