Benedicta ward biography definition
Benedicta ward biography definition
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Benedicta Ward
British theologian and historian (1933–2022)
Benedicta WardSLG (born Florence Margaret Ward, 4 February 1933 – 23 May 2022[2]) was a Church of England nun, theologian and historian.
She was a member of the Anglicanreligious order, the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and reader in early Christian spirituality at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.[3][1] She was particularly known for her research on the Desert Fathers, popularising the collection of their writings known as the Apophthegmata Patrum.[4] She wrote extensively on Anselm of Canterbury and Bede.[5]
Life
Florence Margaret Ward was born in Durham to Methodist parents; her father had left the Church of England to marry his Methodist wife and had become a minister in his new denomination.
She came to high church Anglicanism through the beauty of choral evensong. At the age of 22 she entered the Community of the Sisters of