Elizabeth Livingstone

Elizabeth Anne Livingstone (7 July 1929 – 1 January 2023), also known as E. A. Livingstone, was an English Anglican theologian, who specialised in patristics.

Life

Education

Livingstone held a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford and a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity. She is also the editor of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.

Following Cross's death, Livingstone, previously his assistant, organised the Oxford International Conferences on Patristic Studies from 1969 to 1995, and also edited the record of the proceedings published as Studia Patristica.

Personal life and death Elizabeth Livingstone died on 1 January 2023, at the age of 93.

Honours In the 1986 New Year Honours, Livingstone was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "services to Patristic Studies". She was one of four people to be awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy in 2015.

Livingstone was an Honorary Fellow of St Stephen's House, Oxford.

Selected works