Janet Soskice

• Relationship between religion and science
• religious language
• women in Christianity

Janet Soskice
Born	(1951-05-16) May 16, 1951 (age 74) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Other names	Janet Martin Soskice
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Sheffield Somerville College, Oxford

Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951) ^{[1] [ verification needed ]} is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sheffield University. ^[2] She then obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford. ^[3]

She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. ^[4] She is also professor emerita of philosophical theology and fellow emerita of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

Her theological and philosophical work has dealt with the role of women in Christianity, ^[5] religious language, and the relationship between science and religion. ^[6]

Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith. ^[7] Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience. ^[8]

She was president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain 1992-1994. ^[9]

Works

Books

• Soskice, Janet Martin (1985). Metaphor and Religious Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-824727-2.
• ——— (2007). The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-154433-0.
• ——— (2009). The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN   978-1-4000-4133-6.
• ——— (2023). Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, and Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83446-9.

Edited by

• ———; Ford, David; Quash, Ben, eds. (2005). Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-511-48840-5.

References

1. "Birthdays". The Guardian. 16 May 2014. p. 37.
2. "Janet Martin Soskice | Duke Divinity School". divinity.duke.edu. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
3. "Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4". www.some.ox.ac.uk. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
4. "Janet Martin Soskice". Duke Divinity School. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
5. Soskice, Janet (14 November 2013). "Listen to Half the World". The Tablet. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
6. "Professor Janet Soskice". University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
7. Alexander, Caroline (1 September 2009). "Two of a Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
8. Soskice, Janet (28 June 2009). "Finding God in the Shower". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
9. "Officers of the Association". ctagb.org.uk. Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain. Retrieved 27 November 2025.