Karen Kilby was born on 1964 and is an American lay Catholic theologian.
20 Facts About Karen Kilby
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Karen Kilby is currently the Bede Professor of Catholic Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
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Karen Kilby earned a MASt in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge before completing her PhD in Theology at Yale University, studying under George Lindbeck and Kathryn Tanner.
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Karen Kilby's thesis focused on the theology of the Catholic theologian Karl Rahner: "The Vorgriff auf esse: A study in the relation of philosophy to theology in the thought of Karl Rahner".
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Karen Kilby is married to John Hunton, professor of Pure Mathematics at Durham University.
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Between 1994 and 1996, Karen Kilby was a Gifford Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
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Karen Kilby taught at the University of Birmingham from 1998 to 2001 before joining the University of Nottingham in 2001 as a lecturer and was promoted to assistant professor and then professor in 2013.
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Karen Kilby served for 3.5 years as head of the department of Theology and Religious Studies.
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In January 2014, Karen Kilby was appointed Bede Professor of Catholic Theology at Durham University, thus becoming the second occupant of 'one of Britain's most prestigious posts in Catholic academia'.
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Karen Kilby was President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain between 2010 and 2012 and of the Society for the Study of Theology from 2017 to 2018.
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Karen Kilby is an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, Commonweal, and The Tablet.
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Karen Kilby has been invited to give presentations to internationally established conferences, including the Thomistic Institute, the Karl Barth Society of North America, and LEST XI, KU Leuven.
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Karen Kilby has given university sermons at the University of St Andrews, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge, and public lectures in Malta, Leeds, York, and London.
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Karen Kilby's engagement has included work at the local diocesan and national levels.
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At the national level, Karen Kilby is a Trustee of CAFOD and member of its Theological Reference Group.
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Karen Kilby is a member of the Theological Retreat Group for the Archbishop of Canterbury, and has served as a consultant to the Saint Vincent de Paul society.
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Karen Kilby has been involved in designing and directing a new online course for distance learning MA in Catholic theology at Durham University.
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Karen Kilby has written about the Trinity, with a noted critique of Social Trinitarianism.
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Karen Kilby is known for her writings on two major Twentieth century Catholic theologians Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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Karen Kilby's work raises key questions regarding the role of mystery in theology as well as the purpose and limits of theology as a discipline.