10 Facts About Marcella Althaus-Reid

Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid was an Argentine Professor of Contextual Theology at New College, the University of Edinburgh.

Marcella Althaus-Reid was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and graduated with a Bachelor in Theology Degree from ISEDET, the Protestant University Institute in Buenos Aires.

Marcella Althaus-Reid's interests included liberation theology, feminist theology and queer theology.

Marcella Althaus-Reid grew up in Buenos Aires, where she graduated with a BA in Theology from the Instituto Superior Evangelico de Estudios Teologicos ecumenical theological institution in Buenos Aires, oriented toward liberation theology.

Marcella Althaus-Reid studied with liberation theologians including Jose Miguez Bonino and Jose Severino Croatto.

Marcella Althaus-Reid was a member of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Argentina.

Marcella Althaus-Reid followed the methods of Paulo Freire, undertaking community and social projects supported by the church in impoverished neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.

Marcella Althaus-Reid completed her doctorate in 1994 at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, writing her doctoral thesis on the influence of Paul Ricoeur in the methodology of liberation theology.

Marcella Althaus-Reid died on 20 February 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she had lived since 1986.

Marcella Althaus-Reid was associate editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity and a member of the editorial board of the journal Concilium.