Amy Hollywood

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Amy Hollywood
Alma mater Bryn Mawr College
University of Chicago
Employer Harvard Divinity School
TitleElizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies

Amy Hollywood is an American scholar of religion. She is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.

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Education

Hollywood attended Bryn Mawr College, studying religion and graduating with high honors in 1985. [1] She then earned a master's in religious studies (1986) and doctorate in theology (1991) from the University of Chicago. [1]

Career

In 1997 Hollywood won the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies for her book The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. [2] The book was based on her doctoral thesis. [3]

Hollywood taught at Syracuse University and Rhodes College, then Dartmouth College until 2003 when she returned to the University of Chicago. [4] [1] At Chicago she was Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School. [3] In 2005, she joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, where she is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies. [5]

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  2. ↑ "Gründler Book Prize". Western Michigan University. 2014-09-30. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  3. 1 2 Sanders, Seth (March 18, 2004). "Hollywood studies mysticism through the lens of philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory". The University of Chicago Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  4. ↑ Rosenthal, Randy (November 28, 2016). "Exploring the Place of the Mystical". Harvard Divinity School News. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  5. ↑ "Amy Hollywood". hds.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  6. ↑ Woods, Richard. "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart." Anglican Theological Review 79, no. 4 (1997): 613.
  7. ↑ Erb, Peter (1996-11-01). "Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books)". Consensus. 22 (2). ISSN   2369-2685. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
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  9. ↑ Babinsky, Ellen L. (December 1998). "The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. By Amy Hollywood. Studies in Spirituality and Theology 1. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. x + 331 pp. $32.95 cloth". Church History. 67 (4): 772–774. doi:10.2307/3169872. ISSN   1755-2613. JSTOR   3169872. S2CID   162256083. Archived from the original on 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
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