Anna Rowlands

Anna Frances Rowlands (born 1975 ^[1] ) is a British theologian and academic, specialising in political theology, Catholic social teaching and contemporary Catholic theology. Since 2017, she has been St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at the University of Durham. ^{[2] [3]} She has been on secondment at the Vatican for the Synod on Synodality, working with the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, since 2023. ^[4] She has previously taught at Westcott House, Cambridge, a Church of England theological college, and at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a Roman Catholic theological college which is part of the Cambridge Theological Federation, and King's College, London. ^{[5] [6]}

From 1993 to 1996, she studied for her undergraduate degree in Social and Political Sciences at the Girton College, Cambridge. ^[7]

Her research interests included the social philosophers Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Gillian Rose. ^[8] She focuses on the "interface of political and social theory and Christian theology". ^[3]

In 2023, she was awarded the Expanded Reason Award for research for her book Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times; the award is a collaboration between the Francisco de Vitoria University and the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation. ^{[9] [10]}

Personal life

Rowlands was brought up in Manchester, England, by her Catholic Irish diaspora family. ^[11] She was married to an Anglican priest, with whom she has one son. ^[5]

Selected works

• Graham, Elaine; Rowlands, Anna, eds. (2005). Pathways to the Public Square: Practical Theology in an Age of Pluralism; International Academy of Practical Theology, Manchester 2003. International Practical Theology. Vol. 1. Münster: LIT-Verl. ISBN   978-3825884239.
• Rowlands, Anna (2021). Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN   978-0567219084.
• Phillips, Elizabeth; Rowlands, Anna; Daughton, Amy, eds. (2021). T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology. London: T&T Clark. ISBN   978-0567666970.

References

1. "Anna Frances ROWLANDS personal appointments". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
2. "Durham University announces new St Hilda Chair". ICN. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
3. "Staff profile: Professor Anna Rowlands". durham.ac.uk. Durham University. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
4. "Professor Anna Rowlands Vatican secondment". durham.ac.uk. Durham University. 21 March 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
5. Durber, Susan; Rowlands, Anna (10 January 2009). ""Sharing a Confidence": A Conversation between Susan Durber and Anna Rowlands". Practical Theology. 2 (1): 115–129. doi:10.1558/prth.v2i1.115.
6. "Anna Rowlands". chpublishing.co.uk. Archbishops' Council. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
7. "How to Love the World by Caius visiting scholar". Gonville & Caius. University of Cambridge. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
8. "Anna Rowlands to speak on The Synod on Synodality". ICN. Independent Catholic News. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
9. "These are the four winners of the VI edition of the Expanded Reason Awards – Razón abierta". expandedreason.org. Expanded Reason Institute. 11 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
10. Sr. Nina Benedikta Krapić, VMZ (10 October 2023). ""Expanded Reason" Awards 2023: 7 academics to be honored at Vatican". www.vaticannews.va. Vatican News. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
11. "The Mancunian Way: Manchester Shows How to Live Together in an Age of Terror". ABC Religion & Ethics. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2025.