Janet Soskice

Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951)[1] is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice is 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, the relationship between science and religion.[4]

Janet Soskice
Born	(1951-05-16) May 16, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian English
Other names	Janet Martin Soskice
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Sheffield Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
Sub-discipline	Philosophical theology philosophy of religion
School or tradition	Roman Catholicism
Institutions	Jesus College, Cambridge
Main interests	Relationship between religion and science religious language women in Christianity

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

1. "Birthdays". The Guardian. 16 May 2014. p. 37.
2. "Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
3. Soskice, Janet (14 November 2013). "Listen to Half the World". The Tablet. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
4. "Professor Janet Soskice". University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
5. Alexander, Caroline (1 September 2009). "Two of a Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
6. Soskice, Janet (28 June 2009). "Finding God in the Shower". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2014.