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| Born | Denys Alan Turner 5 August 1942 England [1] |
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| Thesis | The Ascription of Moral Weakness (1975) |
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Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian.
Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University,having been appointed in 2005. He was previously the Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has written widely on political theory and social theory in relation to Christian theology,as well as on medieval thought,in particular,mystical theology and Christian mysticism.
Prior to his position at Cambridge,he was Professor of Theology and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham and has also held Head of Department at the University of Bristol. Turner also worked at University College Dublin and Manhattanville College,New York. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University. [3]
Turner is Catholic and has three children:Ruth,John,and Brendan. [2] [4] He is a member of Opus Dei.
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