Kathryn Tanner
Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology in the Divinity School
M.A., Ph.D. (Yale University)
Kathryn Tanner does constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition, with the intent of addressing contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Her books God and Creation in Christian Theology and The Politics of God discuss the coherence and practical force of Christian beliefs about God's relation to the world. Her book Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology explores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. Her brief systematic theology, Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity, centers on the incarnation. Her latest book is Economy of Grace, exploring the intersections between theology and economics.
