Sarah Anne Coakley was born on 1951 and is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests.
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Sarah Coakley was a visiting professorial fellow then honorary professor at the Australian Catholic University, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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Sarah Coakley's education continued at New Hall, University of Cambridge, and at Harvard Divinity School, to which she went as a Harkness Fellow.
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Sarah Coakley was a visiting professor of religion at Princeton University.
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Sarah Coakley has been an honorary professor at the Logos Institute and the University of St Andrews since 2018 and a visiting professorial fellow at the Australian Catholic University since 2019.
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Sarah Coakley's teaching and research interests cover a number of disciplines cognate to systematic theology, including the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, patristics, feminist theory, and the intersections of law and medicine with religion.
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From 2005 to 2008, Coakley co-directed, with Martin A Nowak, the "Evolution and Theology of Cooperation" project at Harvard University sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, out of which has come a co-edited volume, Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation.
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Sarah Coakley delivered the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2012.
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Sarah Coakley holds honorary degrees from Lund University, St Andrews, University of St Michael's College, Toronto, and Heythrop College, London.
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Sarah Coakley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2000 and as a priest in 2001.
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Sarah Coakley has assisted in parishes in Waban, Massachusetts, and at the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore, Oxford, England.
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In 2005 Sarah Coakley co-founded, with Sam Wells, the Littlemore Group of scholar-priests.
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Sarah Coakley writes on Christology, particularly themes around the identity of Christ and apophaticism.
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Sarah Coakley publishes on theology of the body and mystical theology, particularly looking at feminism and postmodern secular culture from this perspective.
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Sarah Coakley is a scholar of Gregory of Nyssa and patristic theology.
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In 1975, Coakley married James F Coakley, a Syriac scholar and fine printer.