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Denys Turner
BornDenys Alan Turner
(1942-08-05) 5 August 1942 (age 82)
England
Spouses
  • Marie Lamb ​ ​(m. 1969; div. 2015)​
  • Courtney Palmbush ​(m. 2015)​
Children
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Ascription of Moral Weakness (1975)
Doctoral advisorR. M. Hare
Academic work
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Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian.

Career

Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University, having been appointed in 2005. He was previously the Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has written widely on political theory and social theory in relation to Christian theology, as well as on medieval thought, in particular, mystical theology and Christian mysticism.

Prior to his position at Cambridge, he was Professor of Theology and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham and has also held Head of Department at the University of Bristol. Turner also worked at University College Dublin and Manhattanville College, New York. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.

Personal life

Turner is Catholic and has three children: Ruth, John, and Brendan.

Bibliography

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Books

  • On the Philosophy of Karl Marx, Dublin: Sceptre (1968), pp. 93.
  • Marxism and Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell (1983), pp. 256. Paperback edn. 1984.
  • Eros and Allegory, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications (1995), pp. vi + 471.
  • The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995), pp. xi + 278. Paperback edition published September, 1998. Fourth impression, November, 1999. Electronic edition, 2002.
  • Faith Seeking, London: SCM (2002), pp.xiii + 146.
  • Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. xix + 271.
  • Julian of Norwich, Theologian, New Haven: Yale University Press (2011), pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-300-16391-9. ISBN 0-300-16391-6.
  • Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013)
  • God, Mystery, and Mystification. University of Notre Dame Press. 2019.

Articles

Critical studies and reviews of Turner's work

God, Mystery, and Mystification

See also

References

  1. ^ Beckett, Francis; Hencke, David; Kochan, Nick (2016). Blair Inc.: The Money, the Power, the Scandals. London: John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78606-221-5.
  2. McDonald, Frank (2018). Truly Frank: A Dublin Memoir. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-97765-1.
  3. "Denys Turner - Department of Religion". Princeton University Department of Religion. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  4. "Denys Turner | Yale Divinity School". divinity.yale.edu. Retrieved 30 September 2024.

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Preceded byNicholas Lash Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity
1999–2005 		Succeeded bySarah Coakley
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