Revd Professor Sarah Coakley FBA

Historical and systematic theology; philosophy of religion; theology and the biological sciences ('natural theology'); theology and the social sciences; gender, 'race', and religion
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Religion

10-Minute Talks: Racism and religion in America – sin and the elusive "problem of seeing"

9 Dec 2020 Revd Professor Sarah Coakley FBA

The Unites States remains unusually religious as a country, but the issue of American racism is inextricably, and very problematically, related to its theological past. Join Sarah Coakley as she explores some of the uncomfortable truths about the historic power of Christianity in the US.

Current post

The Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University Professorial Research Fellow

Logos Institute, University of St Andrews Honorary Professor

Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Norris-Hulse Professor Emerita

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity

2007 - 2018

Department of Religion, Princeton University Eli Lilly Visiting Professor

2003 - 2004

Harvard University Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity

1995 - 2007

Harvard University Tenured Professor of Christian Theology

1993 - 1995

Oriel College, Oxford Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Philosophy of Religion

1991 - 1993

University of Lancaster Lecturer; Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

1976 - 1991

Publications

God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’

Sarah Coakley - Published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press

Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender

Sarah Coakley - Published in 2002 by Blackwell

Religion and the Body

Sarah Coakley - Published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press

Christ without Absolutes: A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch

Sarah Coakley - Published in 1988 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mark Williams FBA

Psychological models and treatment of recurrent depression; experimental cognitive psychology of the processes that increase risk of suicidality; prevention of suicidal depression through mindfulness-based treatments

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Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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Professor Hugh Williamson FBA

Theology, the Middle East

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