Morna Hooker

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Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 19 May 1931) is a British theologian and New Testament scholar.

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Early life and education

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.

Career and research

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]

Personal life

She is the widow of fellow theologian and Methodist minister the Rev. David Stacey, and is sometimes styled Morna Hooker-Stacey. [3]

Awards

In 2004 she was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy. [8] [9]

Publications

Books

Articles

Notes and references

Citations

  1. ↑ Sleeman 2002, p. 253, 254.
  2. 1 2 3 Moule 1996, p. 1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Moule 1996, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Williams 1997.
  5. ↑ LC 2020.
  6. 1 2 WH 2020.
  7. ↑ Niemelä 2012, p. 24.
  8. ↑ BA 2004.
  9. ↑ Halcomb 2012, p. 29.

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