Donald Allchin

Arthur MacDonald Allchin (1930–2010), known as Donald Allchin, first gained recognition as a writer with The Silent Rebellion, a study of the nineteenth-century recovery of the monastic life in the Anglican Church. His interests in ecumenism and i the language, religion and culture of Wales were reflected in his becoming Director of the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality in Oxford 1987–94 and subsequently an honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales in Bangor. He is the author of Friendship in God: The Encounter of Evelyn Underhill and Sorella Maria of Campello (SLG Press, 2003, 2nd rev./2025).