Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951) is a Canadian-born English

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. Soskice was educated at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. She is also professor emerita of

philosophical theology Philosophical theology is both a branch and form of theology in which philosophical methods are used in developing or analyzing theological concepts. It therefore includes natural theology as well as philosophical treatments of orthodox and het ...

and fellow emerita of Jesus College at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. Her theological and philosophical work has dealt with the role of

women in Christianity Women have played important roles in Christianity especially in marriage and in formal ministry positions within certain Christian denominations, and parachurch organizations. Although more males are born than females naturally, and in 2014, the ...

, religious language, and the relationship between science and religion. Her book ''The Sisters of Sinai'' details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith. Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal"

religious experience A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjectivity, subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept originated in the 19th century, a ...

Works

Books

* * * *——— (2023). ''Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, and Scripture''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83446-9.

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