Sarah Coakley

1976-1991, University of Lancaster (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer)

1991-1993, Lecturer in Theology, Oxford

1993-2007, Harvard Divinity School (1993 - Professor of Christian Theology; 1995- 2007, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity)

2008- Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Cambridge

Coakley will the 2011-2012 Gifford Lectures (in Aberdeen)

Major Publications

Christ without Absolutes:  A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch (Oxford, 1988)
 
'Why Three? Some Further Reflections on the Doctrine of the Trinity’ in S. Coakley and D. Pailin (eds.), The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine:  Essays in Honour of Maurice Wiles (Oxford, 1993)

‘Introduction: Religion and the Body’, in S. Coakley (ed.), Religion and the Body (Cambridge, 1997), 1-12

‘“Persons” in the “Social” Doctrine of the Trinity:  A Critique of Current Analytic Discussion’, in
Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, S.J., and Gerald O’Collins, S.J. (eds.), The Trinity:  An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Doctrine of the Trinity (Oxford, 1999), 123-44

‘The Eschatological Body:  Gender, Transformation and God’, Modern Theology 16 (2000), 61-73

‘What Does Chalcedon Solve and What Does it Not?  Some Reflections on the Status and Meaning of the Chalcedonian “Definition”’, in Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, S.J., and Gerald O’Collins, S.J. (eds.), The Incarnation:  An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God (Oxford, 2002), 143-63

 Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy  and Gender (Blackwell, 2002)
 
‘Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa: Introduction - Gender, Trinitarian Analogies and the Pedagogy of the Song’, Modern Theology 18 (2002), 431-43

‘The Trinity and Gender Reconsidered’ in Miroslav Volf and Michael Welker (eds.), God’s Life in Trinity (a Festschrift for Jürgen Moltmann) (Fortress, 2006), 133-42 

‘Does Kenosis Rest on a Mistake?  Three Kenotic Models in Patristic Exegesis’ in C. Stephen Evans (eds.), Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God (Oxford, 2006), 246-64

‘Introduction: Disputed Questions in Patristic Trinitarianism’, Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007), 125-38

(ed.) with Kay Shelemay, Pain and Its Transformations:  The Interface of Biology and Culture (Harvard University Press, 2007)
 
(ed.) with Samuel Wells, Praying for England: Priestly Presence in Contemporary Culture (Continuum, 2008) 

‘On the Identity of the Risen Jesus:  Finding Jesus Christ in the Poor’ in Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays (eds.), Seeking the Identity of Jesus:  A Pilgrimage (Eerdmans, 2008), 301-19

‘Why Gift?  Gift, Gender, and Trinitarian Relations in Milbank and Tanner,’ Scottish Journal of Theology 16 (2008), 224-35

‘Introduction:  Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite’, Modern Theology 24 (2008), 531-40

‘Providence and the Evolutionary Phenomenon of “Cooperation”: A Systematic Proposal’ in Francesca Murphy (ed.), The Providence of God (T & T Clark, 2009),181-95