* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

John Wycliffe (; also spelt Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe ) ( c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.

The term " Lollard " refers to the followers of John Wycliffe, a prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 for criticism of the Church, especially his doctrine on the Eucharist.

* Jonathan Edwards ( academic ) ( 1629 – 1712 ), theologian and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford 1686 – 1712

He was also instrumental in founding the official Oxford University Press, and installed the pioneer of international law, Alberico Gentili, and the exotic theologian, Antonio del Corro, at Oxford.

* Richard Smyth ( theologian ) ( or Smith ), ( 1499 – 1563 ) English Catholic scholar, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford

* Renn Dickson Hampden ( 1793 – 1868 ), English theologian and Professor at Oxford

The Friars had a long and esteemed history in Oxford, listing many famous alumni, including the English statesman, Robert Grosseteste, also a theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, who became head of Greyfriars, Master of the School of Oxford from 1208, and the first Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Bradwardine was a precocious student, educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a fellow by 1321 ; he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound scholar, a skilful mathematician and an able theologian.

John Owen ( 1616 – 24 August 1683 ) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.

Benjamin Jowett ( 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893 ) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato.

His younger brother was the theologian Henry Harclay, a Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

* Robert Beckford, a British academic theologian and a reader in black theology and popular culture at Oxford Brookes University

* Thomas Jackson ( theologian ) ( 1579 – 1640 ), English theologian, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

They sought to secure the election of reformers – including Ryder and Andrew Linzey, the Oxford theologian – to the RSPCA's ruling council.

Their only son, Alfred Milner, was born in the Hessian town of Gießen and educated first at Tübingen, then at King's College School and, from 1872 to 1876, as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, studying under the classicist theologian Benjamin Jowett.

It was named after British humanist and Jesuit theologian Martin D ' Arcy, S. J., who amassed an art collection at Campion Hall, Oxford University, in England.

The Oxford theologian, Dr B H Streeter, Provost of Queen's College, made it the subject of the Warburton Lectures, given at Oxford University in 1933-5.

To justify its idea of a via media the Oxford Movement attributed this position to the works of the Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker and in particular his book Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity, which is accepted as a founding work on Anglican theology, a view of Hooker promoted by John Keble, who was one of the first to argue that English theology underwent such a " decisive change " in Hooker ’ s hands.

In 1996 Wycliffe Hall became a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, under the leadership of Professor Alister McGrath.

Alister McGrath, former Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, asserts that the 1st century " Jewish Christians " were totally faithful religious Jews.

Sir Alister Clavering Hardy, FRS ( 10 February 1896, Nottingham – 22 May 1985, Oxford ) was an English marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems.

* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

McGrath holds two doctorates from the University of Oxford, a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics and a Doctor of Divinity in Theology.

McGrath then left Oxford to work at Cambridge University, where he also studied for ordination into the Church of England.

McGrath was elected University Research Lecturer in Theology at Oxford University in 1993 and also served as research professor of theology at Regent College, Vancouver, from 1993-1999.

Written in the late 1950s it opened at the Calderon Press Institute in Oxford and was directed by John McGrath.

A. E. McGrath ), Oxford: Blackwell 1993, pp. 35-41.

And, after all, he has lived comfortably at both Oxford, Mississippi, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

Since the Oxford Movement there has also been a modest flourishing of Benedictine monasticism in the Anglican Church and Protestant Churches.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

For American Christians, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: " The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... ' Would you say you have been ' born again ' or have had a ' born-again ' experience?

In The United Kingdom, Oxford University has led in providing extensive research in the field through its Community Development Journal, used worldwide by sociologists and community development practitioners.

Bryan Sykes, professor of genetics at Oxford University, understands this decision: " The Confucius family tree has an enormous cultural significance ," he said.

Dennett has remarked in several places ( such as " Self-portrait ", in Brainchildren ) that his overall philosophical project has remained largely the same since his time at Oxford.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Nowell's letter to Cecil stating: " I clearly see that my work for the Earl of Oxford cannot be much longer required " and his departure after eight months has been interpreted as either a sign of the thirteen-year-old Oxford's intractability as a pupil, or an indication that his precocity surpassed Nowell's ability to instruct him.

Oxford left Venice in March, intending to return home by way of Lyons and Paris ; although one later report has him as far south as Palermo in Sicily.

It came into wide use in the 1990s and, unlike “ sports writing ,” or “ nature writing ,” has yet to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.

He served as the president of the Marine Biological Association ( MBA ) from 1986 to 1990, and has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford ( formerly Green College, Oxford ) since 1994.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) describes libre as obsolete, but the word has come back into limited use.

Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ).

The Oxford English Dictionary has no doubt:

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Since 2005 Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X operating system has come bundled with a dictionary application and widget which credits as its source " Oxford American Dictionaries ", and contains the full text of NOAD2.

* Rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge also has a long history, dating back to around 1209 when Cambridge was founded by scholars taking refuge from hostile Oxford townsmen, and celebrated to this day in varsity matches such as the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.