Michael Bester

‘Episcopacy and Parochialism in Robert Gray’s Diocese of Cape Town 1848–1871: Disputes and Resolutions in the Reception of the Oxford Movement in South Africa’

DPhil Candidate in Theology

michael.bester@stx.ox.ac.uk

Supervisor/s:

Dr Andrew Atherstone

College:

St Cross College

Research Area/s:

Church History

About:

I am an architect and arbitrator by background and training (University of Cape Town 1989–1994, practiced in South Africa 1995–2020), an Anglican clergyman (deacon 2013, priest 2018) and oblate of the Community of the Resurrection (Mirfield).

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bester-7902b031/

Select Publications:

Alban Winter CR: Till Darkness Fell (co-editor with Nicolas Stebbing CR) (Mirfield Publications, 2021).

Articles:

‘The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism: Original Sin and Vocational Freedom’, Sobornost 42.1-2, Nov.2020.

Academic Interests:

Nineteenth and early twentieth century Anglicanism in South Africa.

Academic Related Activities:

Conference / Presentation

‘Managing Conflicts of Interests: the Architect as Principal Agent’: Society for Construction Law, International Conference Cape Town 2016.