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Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 19 May 1931) is a British theologian and New Testament scholar.
Morna Hooker was born in Beddington on 19 May 1931. [1] She went to Bristol University where she graduated with first class honours in theology, and then earned her MA. [2] She worked for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester, then at the University of Durham.
She became a Research Fellow in Arts at Durham. [3] In 1961 she was elected into a temporary, then permanent lectureship at King's College London. [3] In 1970, she left for a lectureship in Theology at University of Oxford, with a fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford. [3]
She was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity within the University of Cambridge from 1976 to 1998, [3] becoming the first woman to hold the Cambridge degree of D.D., [3] and as of 1998 is Professor Emerita. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bristol (1994) [3] and the University of Edinburgh (1997). [4]
She remains a Fellow of Robinson College, having joined the fellowship as a founding Fellow in 1977, [3] and is also a Fellow of King's College London (1979) [3] and an honorary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. [5]
Hooker was the first woman to be elected President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas , an international society of New Testament scholars (1988). [3] She was the first woman to become a joint editor of The Journal of Theological Studies . [3]
She has been an active Methodist local preacher. [2] She has also been Chair of the Wesley House Trustees. [6]
Her scholarly interests lie in early Christian thought in the setting of Jewish biblical inheritance. [6] Her research focuses in particular on the Epistles of Paul and the Gospel according to Mark, as well as on Christology. [2] Her theological standpoint on soteriology is Arminian. [7]
She is the widow of fellow theologian and Methodist minister the Rev. David Stacey, and is sometimes styled Morna Hooker-Stacey. [3]
In 2004 she was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy. [8] [9]
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Frederick Fyvie Bruce, usually cited as F. F. Bruce, was a Scottish biblical scholar who supported the historical reliability of the New Testament. His first book, New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (1943), was voted by the American evangelical periodical Christianity Today in 2006 as one of the top 50 books "which had shaped evangelicals".
The Nazarene Theological College (NTC), located in Didsbury, south Manchester, is an affiliated college of the University of Manchester. It offers theological degrees in various specialised disciplines across BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD. NTC has its roots in the Church of the Nazarene and belongs to the World Methodist Council.
Maurice Frank Wiles, FBA was an Anglican priest and academic. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford for 21 years, from 1970 to 1991.
Richard John Bauckham is an English Anglican scholar in theology, historical theology and New Testament studies, specialising in New Testament Christology and the Gospel of John. He is a senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
Ben Witherington III is an American Wesleyan-Arminian New Testament scholar. Witherington is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary, a Wesleyan-Holiness seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church.
William Sanday was a British Anglican theologian and priest. He was the Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture from 1883 to 1895 and the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity from 1895 to 1919; both chairs were at the University of Oxford. He had previously been Master of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, University of Durham.
Handley Carr Glyn Moule was an evangelical Anglican theologian, writer, poet, and Bishop of Durham from 1901 to 1920.
Charles Francis Digby "Charlie" Moule, known professionally as C. F. D. Moule, was an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was a leading scholar of the New Testament and was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge for 25 years, from 1951 to 1976.
George Bradford Caird, known as G. B. Caird, was a British theologian, biblical scholar and Congregational minister. At the time of his death he was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.
Graham Norman Stanton (1940–2009) was a New Zealand biblical scholar who taught at King's College, London, and as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A New Testament specialist, Stanton's special interests were in the Gospels, with a particular focus on Matthew's Gospel; Paul's letters, with a particular focus on Galatians; and second-century Christian writings, with a particular interest in Justin Martyr.
The Journal of Theological Studies is an academic journal established in 1899 and now published by Oxford University Press in April and October each year. It publishes theological research, scholarship, and interpretation, and hitherto unpublished ancient and modern texts, inscriptions, and documents. Volumes I to L span 1899 to 1949, while volumes 1 to 71 span 1950 to 2020.
Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns, 13th Baronet, was an English Anglican priest and theologian.
The CambridgeFaculty of Divinity is the divinity school of the University of Cambridge. It houses the Faculty Library.
Larry Weir Hurtado,, was an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at the University of Edinburgh (1996–2011). He was the head of the School of Divinity from 2007 to 2010, and was until August 2011 Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh.
Vincent Taylor (1887–1968) was a Methodist biblical scholar and theologian. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1954, specializing in theology. During his career, he was both Principal of Wesley College, Headingley, Leeds and, from 1930–58, Ferens Professor of New Testament Language and Literature there. He was also Examiner in Biblical Theology, London University. He is described as "one of the outstanding New Testament scholars of his day and theologian of great renown and influence" with an "immense" literary output. According to the British Academy, his principal publications were Jesus and his sacrifice: a study of the Passion-sayings (1937), The atonement in New Testament teaching (1940) and The Gospel according to St Mark (1952).
Christopher Francis Evans was an English Anglican priest and theologian who became known as an authority on the New Testament. He also served as lecturer in theology at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1958 and was later made an Emeritus Fellow.
Dorothy Ann Lee is an Australian theologian and Anglican priest, formerly dean of the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing as Frank Woods Distinguished Professor of New Testament. Her main research interests include the narrative and theology of the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, spirituality in the New Testament, the Transfiguration and Anglican worship.
Charles Kingsley Barrett was a British biblical scholar and Methodist minister. He served as Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham and wrote commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.
Michael F. Bird is an Australian Anglican priest, theologian, and New Testament scholar.
Hedley Frederick Davis Sparks, was a British biblical scholar and Church of England priest. From 1946 to 1952, he was Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. From 1952 to 1976, he was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.
