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Kathryn Tanner

Kathryn Eileen Tanner(born 1957) is an AmericanAnglican theologianwho serves as Frederick Marquand Professor ofSystematic TheologyatYale Divinity School.[3]

Kathryn Tanner
Born(1957-03-29)March 29, 1957(age 67)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesKathryn Eileen Tanner
Academic background
Alma materYale University
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-disciplineSystematic theology
School or tradition
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Doctoral students

Biography

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Born on March 29, 1957,[4]Tanner earned her BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees fromYale University.Her career began at Yale by teaching for the department ofreligious studies.She later moved to theUniversity of Chicagowhere she served as the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology. Afterwards, she returned to teach at her alma mater.[3]

Tanner doesconstructive Christian theologyin both the Catholic and Protestant traditions. Her work 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.[5]Her first book,God and Creation in Christian Theologydeveloped an account of the non-competitive relations between God and creatures. Her next bookThe Politics of Godapplies non-competitive relations to the political sphere. Her bookTheories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theologyexplores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. She has also written a short systematic text on the Incarnation (Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity) and a text on the economic relevance of Christian beliefs about God (Economy of Grace).Christ the Key,argues for the centrality of Christ in all theological questions. Her latest bookChristianity and the New Spirit of Capitalismpulls together some of her previous discussions on economy and theology and discusses the moral, social, and theological concerns with present-day "finance-dominated capitalism" and how Christian theology offers better alternatives.

She is a past president of theAmerican Theological Societyand is active in theEpiscopal Church.She is a member of the Theology Committee that advises the EpiscopalHouse of Bishops.[3]

She is on the editorial boards ofModern Theology,International Journal of Systematic Theology,andScottish Journal of Theology.[6]

Tanner delivered theWarfield LecturesatPrinceton Theological Seminaryin 2007[7]and theGifford Lecturesat theUniversity of Edinburghin 2016, which became her 2019 bookChristianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism.[8]

Christ the Key

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Kathryn Tanner has done much work to contribute to the scholastic work of systematic theology. One of the most well-known works was her book calledChrist the Key,published in 2010. This work is mainly Christocentric, describing Christ as center for connecting humanity with God.[9]This book discusses the following topics in the seven chapters of the book, Human Nature, Grace (divided into 2 parts), trinitarian life, politics, death and sacrifice, and the working of the spirit.[10]This book is best used to understand aspects of contemporary theology connected to the soul of humanity in relation with the divine humans choose to interact with. Kathryn states in the preface of this book that it is a sequel to her bookJesus, Humanity and the Trinity,continuing to explain the importance of the centrality of God seeking out humanity to be in intimate relationship with us through the life, death and resurrection of the Son, Jesus Christ.[11]This book follows after the 2001 work to continue understanding her Christological view on God's interactions with humanity through Christ.

The Gift of Theology

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The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tannerwas put together by editors Rosemary P. Carbine and Hilda P. Koster, who were both so deeply moved and affected by Kathryn's work they decided to put together this book to best give their thanks to Kathryn Tanner for her contributions to contemporary theology.[12]In this work, we get a much better understanding and appreciation of who Kathryn Tanner is in relation to her work as a scholar by her colleagues who admire her work most in similar fields of study.John E. Thiel,a professor of religious studies at Fairfield University, writes the foreword, describing Kathryn Tanner as "the most accomplished theologian of her generation."[13]

This book goes on to explain in detail Kathryn Tanner's contributions and explaining the theology behind her best known works. It is a critical analysis of all her works, how she processes theology and presents them and how they have affected the theological world.

Publications

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  • Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism(Yale, 2019)
  • Christ the Key(Cambridge, 2010)
  • Economy of Grace(Fortress, 2005)
  • Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity(Fortress, 2001)
  • Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology(Fortress, 1997)
  • Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice(Fortress, 1992)
  • God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment?(Blackwell, 1988)

References

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  1. ^Michaud, Kujundzija & Cassell.
  2. ^Carbine & Koster 2015b,p. xxix.
  3. ^abc"Kathryn Tanner".Yale Divinity School.RetrievedDecember 13,2017.
  4. ^Fuller 2008,p. 413.
  5. ^Pauw, Amy Plantinga (July 5, 2017)."From God-Talk to God's Work".The Christian Century.Vol. 134, no. 14. pp. 22–25.RetrievedDecember 13,2017.
  6. ^"Kathryn Tanner | Yale Center for Faith and Culture".faith.yale.edu.RetrievedMarch 3,2019.
  7. ^Myers, Ben (March 27, 2007)."Kathryn Tanner".www.faith-theology.com.RetrievedDecember 13,2017.
  8. ^"Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism".The Gifford Lectures.RetrievedDecember 13,2017.
  9. ^Tanner 2010,p. i.
  10. ^Tanner 2010,p. v.
  11. ^Tanner 2010,p. vii.
  12. ^Carbine & Koster 2015a,p. xvii.
  13. ^Thiel 2015,p. xxi.

Further reading

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  • Carbine, Rosemary P.; Koster, Hilda P. (2015a). "Acknowledgements". In Carbine, Rosemary P.; Koster, Hilda P. (eds.).The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner.Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. pp. xvii–xix.doi:10.2307/j.ctt155j3hm.4.ISBN978-1-5064-0285-7.
  • Carbine, Rosemary P.; Koster, Hilda P. (2015b). "Introduction: The Gift of Kathryn Tanner's Theological Imagination". In Carbine, Rosemary P.; Koster, Hilda P. (eds.).The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner.Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. pp. xxv–xxxix.doi:10.2307/j.ctt155j3hm.6.ISBN978-1-5064-0285-7.
  • Fuller, Amy Elisabeth, ed. (2008)."Tanner, Kathryn 1957– (Kathryn E. Tanner)".Contemporary Authors.Vol. 273. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. pp. 413–415.ISBN978-1-4144-1916-9.ISSN0275-7176.RetrievedNovember 17,2019.
  • Michaud, Derek; Kujundzija, Zdravko; Cassell, Paul."Karl Barth (1886–1968)".In Wildman, Wesley (ed.).Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology.Boston, Massachusetts: Boston University.RetrievedNovember 17,2019.
  • Tanner, Kathryn (2010).Christ the Key.
  • Thiel, John E.(2015). "Foreword". In Carbine, Rosemary P.; Koster, Hilda P. (eds.).The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner.Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. pp. xxi–xxiii.doi:10.2307/j.ctt155j3hm.5.ISBN978-1-5064-0285-7.
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