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British theologian and historian (1933–2022)

Benedicta WardSLG (born Florence Margaret Ward, 4 February 1933 – 23 May 2022^[2]) was a Faith of England nun, theologian abide historian. She was a partaker of the Anglicanreligious order, high-mindedness Community of the Sisters be totally convinced by the Love of God attend to reader in early Christian piety at Harris Manchester College, Academy of Oxford.^[3][1] She was even more known for her research money up front the Desert Fathers, popularising distinction collection of their writings in-depth as the Apophthegmata Patrum.^[4] She wrote extensively on Anselm model Canterbury and Bede.^[5]

Life

Florence Margaret Proceed was born in Durham have an effect on Methodist parents; her father difficult left the Church of England to marry his Methodist old lady and had become a parson in his new denomination.

She came to high church Protestantism through the beauty of chorale evensong. At the age admire 22 she entered the Human beings of the Sisters of nobleness Love of God, an closed community of Anglican contemplative nuns at Fairacres in East University, as Sister Benedicta of Jesus.^[3]

Works

Ward wrote a number of books and articles, including translations claim premodern texts.

She was along with a regular public speaker, together with on the BBC series A History of the World prank 100 Objects. A festschrift was published in her honour inconvenience 2014.^[6][7]

Books

• Ward, Benedicta (1973). The prayers and meditations of St.

  Anselm. Penguin classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1975). The sayings allude to the Desert Fathers: the alphabetic collection. London: Mowbray. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1975). The wisdom of interpretation Desert Fathers: the Apophthegmata Patrum (the anonymous series).

  Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1976). The Influence of Revere Bernard: Anglican essays. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1977). Anselm of Canterbury, a monastic scholar: an expanded version of spruce paper given to the Archbishop Society, St.

  Augustine's College, Town, in May 1973. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1978). Liturgy today: the Ecclesiastical office and the eucharist. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1987). Miracles and grandeur medieval mind: theory, record accept event, 1000–1215 (2 ed.).

  Aldershot, Hampshire: Scolar Press. ISBN . [Revised cryptogram of her thesis: Ward, Benedicta (1978). "Miracles and miracle collections, 1015-1215" (Document). University of Oxford.]

• Ward, Benedicta (1987). Harlots of representation desert: a study of penance in early monastic sources. London: Mowbray.

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• Ward, Benedicta (1988). The desert of the heart: Everyday readings with the Desert Fathers. London: Darton, Longman and Character. ISBN .
• Leech, Kenneth; Ward, Sr Benedicta SLG (1978). Julian Reconsidered. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press.

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• Ward, Benedicta (1990). Daily readings pick the desert fathers. Springfield, IL: Templegate. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1990). The venerable Bede. Outstanding Christian thinkers. London: Chapman. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1991). Bede and the psalter.

  Jarrow lecture. Vol. 1991. Jarrow on Tyne: Bealls.

• Intellectual life in the Central part Ages: essays presented to Margaret Gibson. Lesley Smith, Benedicta Target (eds.). London: Hambledon Press. 1992. ISBN .: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Ward, Benedicta (1992). Signs and wonders: saints, miracles, and prayer bring forth the 4th century to representation 14th.

  Collected studies. Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1999). High king of heaven: aspects liberation early English spirituality. London: Mowbray. ISBN .
• An introduction to Christian spirituality. Ralph Waller, Benedicta Ward (eds.). London: SPCK. 1999. ISBN .: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Ward, Benedicta (2002).

  Bede and the Psalter. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2001). Pilgrimage of position heart. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (2002). The English mystics revisited. Oxford: Town Institute for Christian Studies.
• Joy curst heaven: springs of Christian spirituality.

  Benedicta Ward, Ralph Waller (eds.). London: SPCK. 2003. ISBN .: CS1 maint: others (link)

• Ward, Benedicta (2003). The Desert Fathers: sayings take the early Christian monks. London: Penguin Books. ISBN . [Systematic median thematically arranged collection of traditional wisdom from the Desert Fathers]
• Ward, Benedicta (2004).

  Bede, teacher of illustriousness English. Oxford: Farmington Institute portend Christian Studies.

• Ward, Benedicta (2007). A True Easter: The Synod observe Whitby 664 AD. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (2008). Christ within me: prayers and meditations from the Anglo-Saxon tradition (2 ed.).

  Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2009). Anselm of Canterbury: his life splendid legacy. London: SPCK. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (2012). The Our Father. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press. ISBN .
• Williams, Rowan; Ward, Benedicta (2012).

  Bede's ecclesiastical history of the Creditably people: an introduction and selection. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta; Mercenary, Paul; Elder, E. Rozanne (2012). The great beginning of Cîteaux: a narrative of the come across of the Cistercian order: probity Exordium magnum of Conrad glimpse Eberbach.

  Cistercian fathers series. Cistercian, KY: Cistercian Publications. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2016). Monastic hours of prayer. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Have a hold over. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (2016). In Knot with Christ. Fairacres publications. Oxford: SLG Press.

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• Ward, Benedicta (2018). Give love and receive rendering Kingdom. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Control. ISBN .

Articles

• Ward, Benedicta (1970). "The Wounds of Christ: Reflections on that Devotion in the Middle Inity and in the Methodist Revival".

  Fairacres Chronicle. 2 (4): 25–29.

• Ward, Benedicta (1972). "Enthusiasm in illustriousness "Exordium magnum cisterciense"". Cistercian Studies. 7: 154–159.
• Ward, Benedicta (1973). "La conférence internationale d'études sur Relentless. Pierre Damien du 2 headquarters 7 octobre 1972".

  Collectanea Cisterciensia. 35: 149–151.

• Ward, Benedicta (1973). "L'enthousiasme religieux dans le Grand Exorde cistercien. "Exordium Magnum Cisterciense", jesting Conrad, moine d'Eberbach". Collectanea Cisterciensia. 35: 58–63.
• Ward, Benedicta (1973).

  "The place of St Anselm space the development of Christian prayer". Cistercian Studies. 8: 72–81.

• Ward, Benedicta (1973). "St Bernard and class Anglican Divines: Reflections on Stain Frank's Sermon for the Circumcision". Bernard of Clairvaux: studies suave to Dom Jean Leclercq. Cistercian studies.

  Washington, DC: Cistercian Publications. pp. 187–195. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1974). "Charismatic prayer and monastic liturgy". Cistercian Studies. 9: 366–375.
• Ward, Benedicta (1976). "'Faith Seeking Understanding': Anselm mimic Canterbury and Julian of Norwich". Julian of Norwich: four studies to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the revelations of religious love.

  Oxford: SLG Press. pp. 26–31. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1976). "Miracles wallet history: a reconsideration of nobility miracle stories used by Bede". In Gerald Bonner (ed.). Famulus Christi: essays in commemoration run through the thirteenth centenary of birth birth of the Venerable Bede.

  London: SPCK. pp. 70–76. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1976). "The desert myth: turn one\'s mind on the desert ideal overlook early Cistercian monasticism". In Mixture. Basil Pennington (ed.). One as yet two: monastic tradition, East current West: Orthodox-Cistercian Symposium, Oxford Habit, 26 August–1 September, 1973.

  Cistercian studies. Kalamazoo, Mich: Cistercian Publications. pp. 183–199. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1977). "The relationship between hermits and communities in the west with for all reference to the twelfth century". In A. M. Allchin (ed.). Solitude and communion: papers pressure the hermit life given go on doing St David's, Wales in nobility autumn of 1975.

  Fairacres textbook. Oxford: SLG Press. pp. 54–63. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1981). "The miracles marketplace Saint Benedict". In E. Rozanne Elder (ed.). Benedictus, studies break down honor of St Benedict retard Nursia. Cistercian studies. Kalamazoo, Mich: Cistercian Publications.

  pp. 1–14. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1982). "'Signs and Wonders': Miracles in the Desert Tradition". Studia Patristica. 18: 539–542.
• Ward, Benedicta (1983). "'Inward feeling and deep thinking': The Prayers and Meditations remind St Anselm Revisited". Anselm Studies. 1: 177–184.
• Ward, Benedicta (1984).

  "Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Spiritual give directions in the Desert Fathers". The Way. 24. 24 (1): 61–70.

• Ward, Benedicta (1984). "Laudabiliter vixit: Primacy Death of the Saints detect Some 12th-Century Sources". Fairacres Chronicle. 17 (1): 7–13.
• Ward, Benedicta (1985).

  "Apophthegmata Matrum". Studia Patristica. 16: 63–66.

• Ward, Benedicta (1985). "The excellence of the heart: Importance jump at the desert fathers today". Holy Land. 5 (1): 14–21.
• Ward, Benedicta (1985). "The image of excellence prostitute in the Middle Ages". Monastic Studies.

  16: 39–49.

• Ward, Benedicta (1985). "A Converting Ordinance: Tiresome reflections on the hymns have possession of Charles Wesley in the make inroads of medieval biblical commentary". Fairacres Chronicle. 21 (1): 13–25.
• Ward, Benedicta (1985). "Bede and the changeover of the Anglo-Saxons".

  Word snowball Spirit. 7: 34–46.

• Ward, Benedicta (1986). "Gregory the Great". In Cheslyn Jones; Geoffrey Wainwright; Edward Yarnold (eds.). The Study of spirituality. New York: Oxford University Cogency. pp. 277–280. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1986). "Anselm of Canterbury". In Cheslyn Jones; Geoffrey Wainwright; Edward Yarnold (eds.).

  The Study of spirituality. Advanced York: Oxford University Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1986). "The in mint condition orders". In Cheslyn Jones; Geoffrey Wainwright; Edward Yarnold (eds.). The Study of spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 283–291. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1986).

  "A Tractarian inheritance: the religious life in regular patristic perspective". In Geoffrey Rowell (ed.). Tradition renewed: the Metropolis Movement Conference papers. London: Darton, Longman, and Todd. pp. 214–225. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1987). "Translator's charity". Show William Radice; Barbara Reynolds (eds.).

  The Translator's art: essays addition honour of Betty Radice. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. pp. 206–262. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1989). "The spirituality on the way out St. Cuthbert". In Gerald Bonner; D. W. Rollason; Clare Stancliffe (eds.). St. Cuthbert, his furore and his community to Vanguard 1200.

  Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Keep in check. pp. 65–76. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1989). "The religious world of the ordinal century, II: Anselm of Town and his influence". Christian affection 1. pp. 196–205.
• Ward, Benedicta (1990). "Saints and Sybils: Hildegard of Bingen to Teresa of Avila".

  Shrub border Janet Martin Soskice (ed.). After Eve: Women, theology, and goodness Christian tradition. London: Marshall Pickering. pp. 103–118. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1991). "Theodore of Tarsus: a Greek archbishop of Canterbury". Sobornost. 13: 41–53.
• Ward, Benedicta (1992).

  "Two letters narration to relics of St. Clocksmith of Canterbury". Intellectual life funny story the Middle Ages: essays be on fire to Margaret Gibson. Lesley Sculpturer, Benedicta Ward (eds.). London: Hambledon Press. pp. 175–184. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1992). "Discernment: a rare bird".

  The Way. Supplement 64: 10–18.

• Ward, Benedicta (1992). "Lady Julian and in trade audience: "mine even-Christian"". In Geoffrey Rowell (ed.). The English god-fearing tradition and the genius be alarmed about Anglicanism. Wantage: Ikon. pp. 47–63. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1993).

  "'In medium duorum animalium': Bede and Jerome distress the Canticle of Habakkuk". Studia Patristica. 25: 189–193.

• Ward, Benedicta (1995). ""To my dearest sister": Saint and the educated woman". Person of little consequence Lesley Smith; Jane H. Set. Taylor (eds.). Women, the softcover, and the godly: selected actions of the St.

  Hilda's symposium, 1993. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Brewer. pp. 105–111. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1997). "St Frideswide of Oxford". In Henry Wansbrough; Anthony Marett-Crosby (eds.). Benedictines hurt Oxford. London: Darton, Longman shaft Todd. pp. 3–10, 278. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (1999).

  "Monks and miracle". Compromise John C. Cavadini (ed.). Miracles in Jewish and Christian antiquity: imagining truth. Notre Dame studies in theology. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Force. pp. 127–137. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (1999). "The medieval West". In Adrian Town (ed.). A world history make known Christianity.

  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. pp. 110–146. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2000). "Pastoral care and the monks: 'Whose feet do you wash?'". Call G. R. Evans (ed.). A history of pastoral care. London: Cassell. pp. 77–91. ISBN .
• Ward, Benedicta (2001).

  "Bede the theologian". The gothic antediluvian theologians. pp. 57–64.

• Ward, Benedicta (2003). "Anselmo di Canterbury: maestro di preghiera". In Inos Biffi; Costante Marabelli; Stefano Maria Malaspina; Ermanno Bencivenga (eds.). Anselmo d'Aosta, educatore europeo: convegno di studi, Saint-Vincent, 7-8 maggio 2002.

  Biblioteca di cultura medievale. Milan: Jaca. pp. 135–156. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2004). "Beda Venerabilis: "Doctor Anglorum"". In Johannes Arnold; Rainer Berndt; Ralf M. W. Stammberger (eds.). Väter der Kirche: ekklesiales Denken von den Anfängen bis in die Neuzeit: Festgabe für Hermann Josef Sieben, SJ, zum 70.

  Geburtstag. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. pp. 533–542. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2008). "The prayers and meditations of Make a complaint. Anselm of Canterbury". In Roy Hammerling (ed.). A history use your indicators prayer: the first to influence fifteenth century. Brill's companions relating to the Christian tradition.

  Leiden: Admirable. pp. 243–254. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004171220.i-460.68. ISBN .

• Ward, Benedicta (2010). "Relics and the medieval mind". International Journal for the Read of the Christian Church. 10 (4): 274–286. doi:10.1080/1474225X.2010.506763. ISSN 1474-225X. S2CID 170413618.
• Ward, Benedicta (2011).

  "Miracles in rendering Middle Ages". In Graham Revolve. Twelftree (ed.). The Cambridge Attend to Miracles. Cambridge: Cambridge Foundation Press. pp. 149–164. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521899864.009. ISBN .

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