The volume illustrates the diversity in modern Christian thought. An index of terms mentioned in the work but without their own entries is included at the end of the volume. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . E.A. Livingstone, editor. This updated edition covers historical and doctrinal developments, biographies, and definitions of terms and customs in Christianity.
Entries are cross-referenced and include bibliographies.
Although it claims to have an international scope, the dictionary devotes much of its attention to Great Britain and the Church of England. An earlier edition of this work can be found in the Mugar Library Reference collection under XBR95 .O8 1983. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation . Entries cover a wide range of events, religious and secular, of the sixteenth century. Entries are signed and are arranged alphabetically.