Janet Soskice

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| other_names = Janet Martin Soskice

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| discipline = {{ubl | Philosophy | theology}}

| sub_discipline = {{ubl | Philosophical theology | philosophy of religion}}

| workplaces = {{ubl | Duke Divinity School | Jesus College, Cambridge}}

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Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951){{cite news |date=16 May 2014 |title=Birthdays |newspaper=The Guardian |page=37}}{{verification needed|date=September 2018}} is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice was educated at Somerville College, Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/somerville-alumna-to-discuss-the-trinity-on-bbc-radio-4/|title=Somerville Alumna to Discuss the Trinity on BBC Radio 4|website=www.some.ox.ac.uk|date=6 August 2015 |access-date=24 November 2018}} She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.{{Cite web |title=Janet Martin Soskice |url=https://www.divinity.duke.edu/faculty/janet-martin-soskice |access-date=September 18, 2024 |website=Duke Divinity School}} She is also professor emerita of philosophical theology and fellow emerita of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. Her theological and philosophical work has dealt with the role of women in Christianity,{{Cite web|url=http://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/830/listen-to-half-the-world|title=Listen to Half the World|first=Janet|last=Soskice|work=The Tablet|date=14 November 2013|access-date=16 March 2014}} religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.{{Cite web|url=http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/janet-soskice|title=Professor Janet Soskice|date=22 July 2013 |publisher=University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity|access-date=16 March 2014}}

Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Alexander-t.html?_r=0|title=Two of a Kind|first=Caroline|last=Alexander|work=The New York Times|date=1 September 2009|access-date=16 March 2014}} Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/28/conversion-religion-philosophy|title=Finding God in the Shower|first=Janet|last=Soskice|work=The Guardian|date=28 June 2009|access-date=16 March 2014}}

Works

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{{cite book |author1-last=Soskice |author1-first=Janet Martin |title=Metaphor and Religious Language |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1985 |isbn=978-0-19-824727-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/metaphorreligiou0000sosk }}
{{cite book|author1-last=Soskice |author1-first=Janet Martin |author1-mask=3 |title=The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-154433-0}}
{{cite book |author1-last=Soskice |author1-first=Janet Martin |author1-mask=3 |title=The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |date=2009 |isbn=978-1-4000-4133-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/sistersofsinaiho00sosk }}
——— (2023). Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, and Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83446-9.

=Edited by=

{{cite book|editor1-last=Soskice |editor1-first=Janet Martin |editor1-mask=3 |editor2-last=Ford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Ford (academic) |editor3-last=Quash |editor3-first=Ben |editor3-link=Ben Quash |title=Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century |location=Cambridge, England |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-511-48840-5}}