Janet Soskice
Janet Soskice is the University Reader in Philosophical Theology and a Fellow of Jesus College where she is also Director of Studies in Theology. She was born in British Columbia, and studied at Cornell and Sheffield, prior to doing a doctorate in the philosophy of religion (religious language) at Oxford University. While the Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow and subsequently as a lecturer at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, she taught philosophy or religion, ethics and doctrine at Oxford and philosophy at Heythrop College, London.
Dr. Soskice is a past-President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and the Cambridge Theological Society in 1997 was the McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University in Rome. She is currently a Board Member of the international Catholic journal, Concilium, Chair of the Board of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a Catholic house of study for women within the Cambridge Theological Federation, and Senior Treasurer of the Cambridge Canadian Club, amongst other commitments.
Janet Soskice is the author of Metaphor and Religious Language (O.U.P. 1984); has edited (with Grant Gillett and K.W. Fulford), of Medicine and Moral Reasoning (C.U.P , 1994) and with Diana Lipton, Feminism and Theology , Oxford Readings in Feminism (OUP, 2003).
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