Janet Soskice
| Janet Soskice | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 16, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Other name | Janet Martin Soskice |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cornell University University of Sheffield Somerville College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy theology |
| Sub-discipline | Philosophical theology philosophy of religion |
| School or tradition | Roman Catholicism |
| Institutions | Duke Divinity School Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Main interests | Relationship between religion and science religious language women in Christianity |
Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951)[1] is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sheffield University.[2] She then obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford.[3]
She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.[4] 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,[5] religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.[6]
Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith.[7] Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.[8]
She was president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain 1992-1994.[9]
Works
Books
- 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.
Edited by
- ———; Ford, David; Quash, Ben, eds. (2005). Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-48840-5.
References
- Back to citation "Birthdays". The Guardian. 16 May 2014. p. 37.
- Back to citation "Janet Martin Soskice | Duke Divinity School". divinity.duke.edu. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- Back to citation "Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4". www.some.ox.ac.uk. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- Back to citation "Janet Martin Soskice". Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- Back to citation Soskice, Janet (14 November 2013). "Listen to Half the World". The Tablet. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- Back to citation "Professor Janet Soskice". University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- Back to citation Alexander, Caroline (1 September 2009). "Two of a Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- Back to citation Soskice, Janet (28 June 2009). "Finding God in the Shower". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- Back to citation "Officers of the Association". ctagb.org.uk. Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain. Retrieved 27 November 2025.