Roger T. Beckwith

Roger Beckwith was born in London in 1929 and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Bamet. His earliest Christian experience was being read Bible stories by his mother and attending a Congregalionalist Sunday School, but he was attracted to the Church of England by the Prayer Book and by Anglican church buildings and church music. After a year in the army, he went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, to study English. at a time when C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were teaching in the English school. It was at Oxford that he was finally won to Christian discipleship. After graduating, he enquired about ordination and attended Tyndale Hall, Bristol, with a final term at Cuddesdon to experience Anglicanism of another kind. Two curacies led on to some years teaching back at Tyndale Hall, during which he married his wife Janet. They have four children.

After Latimer House was founded at Oxford, he joined Dr. Jim Packer there in its work of research and writing, and advising Synod members, and he subsequently served under the late John Wenham. He then became warden himself and had various colleagues, including Dr Peter Toon. During his time at Latimer House, he also taught Liturgy at Wycliffe Hall for over twenty years and looked after the little parish of Wytham for six. For twenty years he served on the Anglican-Orthodox Commission. He gained an Oxford BD and was awarded a Lambeth DD by Archbishop Carey. In his retirement he assists at the City Church of St. Michael at the North Gate, Oxford.

In his writings, Roger Beckwith has concentrated on Doctrine, Worship, the Jewish background to the New Testament, and Ecclesiastical Affairs (especially of course Anglican).

For the Latimer Trust he has contributed numerous Comments and the following booklets:

LS02 The ASB Rite A Communion - A Way Forward

LS09 Confessing the Faith in the Church of England Today

LS20/21 The Thirty-Nine Articles: their Place and Use Today

LS22 How We Got Our Prayer Book

LS61 The Water and the Wine

LB01 The Church of England: What it is, and What it Stands For

LB02 Praying With Understanding: Explanations of Words and Passages in the Book of Common Prayer

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