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Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope,
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject.
List of contents
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Editorial Advisers
- Contributors to the Fourth Edition
- Contributors to Previous Editions
- Abbreviations
- Frank Leslie Cross 1900-1968
- The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church A-Z
- Chronological List of Popes and Antipopes
About the author
Andrew Louth is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University. His many publications include Denys the Areopagite; Maximus the Confessor; St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology; Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681-1071. He is also co-editor of Oxford Early Christian Studies and Oxford Early Christian Texts.
F. L. Cross was the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1944 to 1968. From 1941 to 1948, he was editor of what later was published as A Patristic Greek Lexicon; in 1951 initiated the Oxford International Conferences on Patristic Studies.
E. A. Livingstone assisted F. L. Cross in the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church and in the organization of the Oxford International Conferences on Patristic Studies. On his death she assumed responsibility for the second and third editions, and organized the conferences from 1969 to 1995, editing the proceedings. She received an MBE, a Lambeth DD, and a British Academy President's Medal for services to patristic scholarship.
Summary
Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject.
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