By Leonel L. Mitchell
Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr.
In 1964, Leonel Lake Mitchell (1930-2012) became the first person to receive a Th.D. in...
Gregory Dix's position on the Eucharist, offering, and sacrifice has loomed large over all later discussion of the topic, in the academy and the Church.
The Rev. Canon Leonel L. Mitchell, one of the scholars responsible for the Book of Common Prayer (1979), died May 23 in South Bend, Indiana. The veteran liturgist and theologian was 81.