Kathryn Eileen Tanner was born on 1957 and is an American Anglican theologian who serves as Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.
11 Facts About Kathryn Tanner
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Kathryn Tanner's career began at Yale by teaching for the department of religious studies.
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Kathryn Tanner later moved to the University of Chicago where she served as the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology.
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Kathryn Tanner has written a short systematic text on the Incarnation and a text on the economic relevance of Christian beliefs about God.
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Kathryn Tanner is a past president of the American Theological Society and is active in the Episcopal Church.
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Kathryn Tanner is a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal House of Bishops.
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Kathryn Tanner is on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology.
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Kathryn Tanner delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2007 and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, which became her 2019 book Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism.
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Kathryn Tanner has done much work to contribute to the scholastic work of systematic theology.
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Kathryn Tanner states in the preface of this book that it is a sequel to her book Jesus, 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.
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The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner was 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.