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Janet Soskice

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Janet Soskice
Born (1951-05-16) May 16, 1951 (age 73)
Nationality
  • Canadian
  • English
Other namesJanet Martin Soskice
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Discipline
  • Philosophy
  • theology
Sub-discipline
School or traditionRoman Catholicism
Institutions
Main interests

Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951)[1][verification needed] is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice was educated at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.[3] She is also professor emerita of philosophical theology and fellow emerita of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. Her theological and philosophical work has dealt with the role of women in Christianity,[4] religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.[5]

Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith.[6] Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.[7]

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Books

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  • Soskice, Janet Martin (1985). Metaphor and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-824727-2.
  • ——— (2007). The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-154433-0.
  • ——— (2009). The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-4000-4133-6.
  • ——— (2023). Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, and Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83446-9.

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References

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  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 16 May 2014. p. 37.
  2. ^ "Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4". www.some.ox.ac.uk. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Janet Martin Soskice". Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  4. ^ Soskice, Janet (14 November 2013). "Listen to Half the World". The Tablet. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Professor Janet Soskice". University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  6. ^ Alexander, Caroline (1 September 2009). "Two of a Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  7. ^ Soskice, Janet (28 June 2009). "Finding God in the Shower". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2014.