Kathryn Tanner
Encyclopedia
Kathryn Tanner is Professor of Systematic Theology
at Yale Divinity School
, as of July 2010.
Kathryn Tanner began her career at Yale University
. She later moved to the University of Chicago where she served as the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology. Tanner does constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition. Her works addresses contemporary challenges to the Christian faith through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Her first book, God and Creation in Christian Theology developed an account of the non-competitive relations between God and creatures. Her next book The Politics of God applies non-competitive relations to the political sphere. Her book Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology explores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. She has also written a short systematic text on the Incarnation and a text on the economic relevance of Christian beliefs about God. She recently completed a text on Christ.
She is a past president of the American Theological Society, and is active in the Episcopal Church
, as a member of the Theological Committee that advises the House of Bishops
.
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
at Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. preparing students for ordained or lay ministry, or for the academy...
, as of July 2010.
Kathryn Tanner began her career at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. She later moved to the University of Chicago where she served as the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology. Tanner does constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition. Her works addresses contemporary challenges to the Christian faith through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Her first book, God and Creation in Christian Theology developed an account of the non-competitive relations between God and creatures. Her next book The Politics of God applies non-competitive relations to the political sphere. Her book Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology explores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. She has also written a short systematic text on the Incarnation and a text on the economic relevance of Christian beliefs about God. She recently completed a text on Christ.
She is a past president of the American Theological Society, and is active in the Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
, as a member of the Theological Committee that advises the House of Bishops
House of Bishops
The House of Bishops is the third House in a General Synod of some Anglican churches and the second house in the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.-Composition of Houses of Bishops:...
.
Publications
- Christ the Key (Cambridge, 2010)
- Economy of Grace (Fortress, 2005)
- God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? (Blackwell, 1988)
- Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (Fortress, 1992)
- Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (Fortress, 1997)
- Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity (Fortress, 2001)