Kathryn Tanner
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Yale University
Professor Tanner joined the Yale Divinity School faculty in 2010 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for sixteen years and in Yale’s Department of Religious Studies for ten. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory. She is the author of God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? (Blackwell, 1988); The 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: A Brief Systematic Theology (Fortress, 2001); Economy of Grace (Fortress, 2005); Christ the Key (Cambridge, 2010), Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism (Yale, 2019) and scores of scholarly articles and chapters in books that include The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, which she edited with John Webster and Iain Torrance. She serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology, and is a former coeditor of the Journal of Religion. Active in many professional societies, Professor Tanner is a past president of the American Theological Society, the oldest theological society in the United States. For eight years she was a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. In the academic year 2010-11, she had a Luce Fellowship to research financial markets and the critical perspectives that Christian theology can bring to bear on them. In 2015-16, she delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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Books
- Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism (Yale, 2019)
- Christ the Key (Cambridge, 2010)
- Economy of Grace (Fortress, 2005)
- Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (T and T Clark/ Fortress, 2001)
- Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (Fortress, 1997)
- The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (Fortress, 1992)
- God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? (Blackwell,1988/ Fortress Reprint, 2005)
