Denys Turner
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Career
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.[1]
Personal life
Turner is Catholic and has three children: Ruth, John, and Brendan.[2][3]
Bibliography
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Books
- On the Philosophy of Karl Marx, Dublin: Sceptre (1968), pp. 93.
- Marxism and Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell (1983), pp. 256. Paperback edn. 1984.
- Eros and Allegory, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications (1995), pp. vi + 471.
- The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995), pp. xi + 278. Paperback edition published September, 1998. Fourth impression, November, 1999. Electronic edition, 2002.
- Faith Seeking, London: SCM (2002), pp.xiii + 146.
- Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. xix + 271.
- Julian of Norwich, Theologian, New Haven: Yale University Press (2011), pp. 304. Template:ISBN. Template:ISBN.
- Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013)
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Articles
- Can a Christian be a Marxist June 1975. New Blackfriars.[4]
Critical studies and reviews of Turner's work
- God, Mystery, and Mystification
- New Blackfriars , Volume 102 , Issue 1097 , January 2021 , pp. 139 - 141[5]
See also
References
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