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Prof. Sarah Coakley, Professor of Divinity

Prof. David Ford, Professor of Divinity

Prof. Janet Martin Soskice, Professor of Philosophical Theology

Prof. Fraser Watts, Reader in Theology and Science

Prof. Sarah Coakley

Professor of Divinity

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9BS
UK

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Homepage: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/faculty/coakley.html

Research Profile

Sarah Coakley is a philosopher of religion and systematic theologian previously at Harvard Divinity School, Oxford, and Princeton Universities. Prof. Coakley is currently working on a systematic theology, which is marked by a strong interdisciplinary commitment, a concern for philosophical engagment, and a repristination of neglected themes from patristic and early modern sources. Her interest in questions of gender and theology is reflected in a number of recent writings. She has been appointed as the 2011-12 Gifford Lecturer.

Teaching Profile

Prof. Coakley's lecture-courses and seminars are on philosophy of religion and ethics ('Metaphsyics', 'On the Very Idea of Philosophical Theology', seminars on religious epistemology, feminist and sexual ethics). She works closely with Drs. Douglas Hedley and Catherine Pickstock in philosophical theology, and also with colleagues in systematic theology (Prof.s Ford, Soskice).

Selected Publications

Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

(ed.) Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

(ed.) The God of Nicaea: Disputed Questions in Patristic Trinitarianism. Harvard Theological Review, April, 2007.

(ed. with K. Kaufman Shelemay) Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2007.

(ed. with S. Wells) Praying for England: Priestly Presence in Contemporary Culture. London, Continuum, 2008.

(ed wtih Ch. M. Stang) Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite. Oxford, Wiley/Blackwell, 2009.

God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' (vol 1 of the systematics). Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

(ed. with M. A. Nowak) Evolution, Games and God: The Principle of Cooperation. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

The Broken Body: Israel, Christ and Fragmentation. Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, projected for 2011.

Prof. David Ford

Professor of Divinity

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9BS

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Research Profile

My current research interests in the area of contemporary Christian thought are focused in two directions: first, in the direction of hermeneutics, the interpretation of scripture and substantive issues in contemporary Christian thought and practice; and second, in the direction of inter-faith theology and relations, particularly the issues of inter-faith scriptural interpretation and the relation of faiths to secular cultures, traditions and forces. Among my other research interests are: the shaping of universities and of the field of theology and religious studies within them; political theology; ecumenical theology; and Christian theologians and theologies. At present I am starting work on a major new project – a theological interpretation of the Gospel of John. I am also writing a Manifesto on the future of Christian theology for Blackwell Publishing.

Teaching Profile

I have supervised postgraduate research and lectured across this range of interests.

Selected Publications

Barth and God’s Story: Biblical Narrative and the Theological Method of Karl Barth in the Church Dogmatics. Wipf and Stock, Eugene, OR, 2008. Reprinted from 1985 Peter Lang edition.

(with Frances Young) Meaning and Truth in Second Corinthians. Wipf and Stock, Eugene, OR, 2008. Reprinted from 1987 SPCK edition.

Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love. Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine series; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007.

Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World. Challenges in Contemporary Theology series; Blackwell, Oxford 2007.

(ed. with C.C. Pecknold) The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning. Blackwell, Oxford 2006.

(ed. with Rachel Muers) The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918. Blackwell, Oxford 2005; Korean edition, Christian Literature Crusade, Seoul 2005.

(ed. with Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice) Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005.

(with Daniel W. Hardy) Jubilate: Theology in Praise. Darton, Longman and Todd, London 1984. Revised and updated as Living in Praise: Worshipping and Knowing God. Darton, Longman and Todd, London 2005.

Self and Salvation: Being Transformed. Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.

Theology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, 2000. 

Prof. Janet Martin Soskice

Professor of Philosophical Theology, Fellow of Jesus College

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9BS

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Homepage: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/faculty/soskice.html

Teaching Profile

Study of Theology, the Symbolics of Sex, religion and Gender, Body, Self and Society, Authority and Interpretation since 1800

Research Profile

Religious language and symbolism, science and religion, feminism and theology and Jewish-Christian relations

Selected Bibliography

Metaphor and Religious Language. Oxford University Press, 1984.

(ed.with Fulford and Gillett) Medicine and Moral Reasoning. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

(ed. with D. Lipton) Feminism and Theology: Jewish and Christian. Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Kindness of God. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Sisters of Sinai: How two Lady Adventurers found the Hidden Gospels. London: Chatto, 2009; forthcoming: New York: Knopf.

(ed. with D. Burrell/B. Stoeger/C. Cogliatie) Creation and the God of Abraham (forthcoming).   

Prof. Fraser Watts

Reader in Theology and Science, Fellow and Director of Studies, Queens College

Faculty of Divinity
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9BS
United Kingdom

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Teaching Profile

At the undergraduate level, Prof. Watts teaches papers on theology and science; psychology and religion; religion: the evolution, brain and cognition; and contributes teaching on sexual ethics to a paper on topics in ethics.  He coordinates a programme of Master's level teaching in psychology and religion, and supervises graduate students, mainly on topics concerning psychology and religion.

Research Profile

Prof. Watts' research focuses mainly on the interface for theology and psychology , and he is currently working on a book approaching systematic theology in dialogue with psychology.  He also does theoretical research on the psychology of religion, especially a cognitive theory of religious cognition based on interacting cognitive sub-systems (ICS), and is developing a critical perspective on the evolution of religious cognition.

Selected Publications

(together with M. Williams) The Psychology of Religious Knowing. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

(ed.) Science Meets Faith. London, SPCK, 1998.

Theology and Psychology. Basingstoke, Ashgate, 2002.

(ed. with L. Gulliford) Forgiveness in Context. Theology and Psychology in Creative Dialogue. London, T & T Clark International, 2004.

(ed. with K. Dutton) The Dialogue Between Science and Religion: An International Approach. Philadelphia, John Templeton Press, 2006.

(ed.) Jesus and Psychology. London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2007.

Emotion regulation and religion, in J. J. Gross (ed.) Handbook of Emotion Regulation. New York, Guilford Press, 2007, 504-520.

(ed.) Creation. Law and Probability. Basingstoke, Ashgate, 2008.

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Prof. Sarah Coakley, Professor of Divinity 

Prof. David Ford, Professor of Divinity

Prof. Janet Martin Soskice, Professor of Philosophical Theology 

Prof. Fraser Watts, Reader in Theology and Science