Denys Turner

{{Short description|English philosopher and theologian (born 1942)}}

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | University College Dublin | St Edmund Hall, Oxford}}

| thesis_title = The Ascription of Moral Weakness

| thesis_year = 1975

| school_tradition = {{hlist | Marxism{{cite book |last1=Beckett |first1=Francis |author1-link=Francis Beckett |last2=Hencke |first2=David |author2-link=David Hencke |last3=Kochan |first3=Nick |author3-link=Nick Kochan |year=2016 |title=Blair Inc.: The Money, the Power, the Scandals |location=London |publisher=John Blake Publishing |isbn=978-1-78606-221-5}} | Roman Catholicism}}

| doctoral_advisor = R. M. Hare

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Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian.

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.{{cite web|url=https://religion.princeton.edu/people/faculty/visiting-faculty/denys-turner/|title=Denys Turner - Department of Religion|website=Princeton University Department of Religion|accessdate=11 November 2018|archive-date=15 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915214933/https://religion.princeton.edu/people/faculty/visiting-faculty/denys-turner/|url-status=dead}}

Personal life

Turner is Catholic and has three children: Ruth, John, and Brendan.{{Cite web |title=Denys Turner {{!}} Yale Divinity School |url=https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/denys-turner |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=divinity.yale.edu |language=en}}

Bibliography

= 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. {{ISBN|978-0-300-16391-9}}. {{ISBN|0-300-16391-6}}.
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013)
{{cite book |title=God, Mystery, and Mystification |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |year=2019 }}

=Articles=

Can a Christian be a Marxist June 1975. New Blackfriars.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/43246378] {{doi|10.1111/j.1741-2005.1975.tb02190.x}}

=Critical studies and reviews of Turner's work=

;God, Mystery, and Mystification

New Blackfriars , Volume 102 , Issue 1097 , January 2021 , pp. 139 - 141{{cite journal |author=O'Connor, John |date=January 2021 |title=[Untitled review] |journal=New Blackfriars |volume=102 |issue=1097 |pages=139–141 |doi=10.1111/nbfr.12619 |s2cid=230593743 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12619 |url-access=subscription }}