Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951)[1][verification needed] is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice was educated at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] She is professor of philosophical theology and a fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. Her theological and philosophical work has dealt with the role of women in Christianity,[3] religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.[4]
Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith.[5] Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.[6]
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.
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
- ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 16 May 2014. p. 37.
- ^ "Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4". www.some.ox.ac.uk. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
- ^ Soskice, Janet (14 November 2013). "Listen to Half the World". The Tablet. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ^ "Professor Janet Soskice". University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ^ Alexander, Caroline (1 September 2009). "Two of a Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ^ Soskice, Janet (28 June 2009). "Finding God in the Shower". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
