F. L. Cross

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Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Academic background
High-church Anglicanism[2]
InstitutionsChrist Church, Oxford

Frank Leslie Cross

Anglican priest. He was the founder of the Oxford International Conference on Patristic Studies and editor (with Elizabeth Livingstone) of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (first edition, 1957).[3] He was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford
from 1944 to 1968.

Life

Cross was born in

Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1944, by which time his interest in patristics
was developing, alongside the beginnings of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, which was published in 1957. At the time of his death he was working on the second edition.

Post-war he organised international conferences, initially to re-establish relations with Christians in Germany. He organized the First International Conference on Patristic Studies in 1951, the second in 1955 and served as editor of the first 11 volumes of Studia Patristica, the official publication of the conference.[7] Additionally, he also organized New Testament congresses. As well as their academic importance, the conferences were an early expression of ecumenism.

Cross was awarded an Oxford Doctor of Divinity degree in 1950; he received honorary degrees from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Bonn and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1967.[8]

Cross died on 30 December 1968 in Oxford. Near the end of his life his two sisters became his caretakers.[9]

Selected works

  • Cross, F. L.;
    ISBN 978-0-19-211655-0
    .

References

  1. OCLC 1065325209
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1-57958-035-3
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  3. ISBN 978-0-19-211655-0
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  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69478
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  5. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (First Edition, 1957)
  6. ISBN 978-1-351-95941-4
    . Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  7. ISBN 978-90-6831-231-7
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  8. ^ University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen University Alumnus Association (1960). Aberdeen University Review. Vol. 38. Aberdeen University Press. p. 173. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  9. ^ Parker, Thomas M. (1971). "Frank Leslie Cross, 1900–1968" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 55: 363–375.

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity
1944–1968 		Succeeded by
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