Rachel Baard
{{Short description|South African theologian}}
Rachel Sophia Baard is a South African theologian. Since 2019, she is an assistant professor of Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, United States.{{Cite web |date=2022-01-11 |title=Union Presbyterian Seminary awarded $1 million grant to help faith leaders address the nation's cultural divide |url=https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/union-presbyterian-seminary-awarded-1-million-grant-to-help-faith-leaders-address-the-nations-cultural-divide/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Presbyterian Mission Agency |language=en-US}} Her first book, Sexism and Sin-Talk: Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition (2019) won the 2020 Andrew Murray / Desmond Tutu Book Prize. Her research areas include systematic and constructive theology, theological ethics, and feminist and political theologies.
She graduated from Stellenbosch University with degrees in law and theological ethics. She earned her Ph.D. of Systematic Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Before moving to Richmond, she previously taught at Villanova University.{{Cite web |title=Faculty: RACHEL S. BAARD |url=https://www.upsem.edu/about/faculty/rachel-sophia-baard/ |website=Union Presbyterian Seminary}}{{Cite web |date=2019-11-26 |title=Author: Rachel Sophia Baard |url=https://www.wjkbooks.com/Author/Default.aspx?AuthorId=37792 |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Westminster John Knox Press}}
Bibliography
- {{Cite journal |last=Baard |first=R. S. |date=2014 |title=The Heidelberg Catechism on human sin and misery |url=https://www.ajol.info/index.php/actat/article/view/146138 |journal=Acta Theologica |volume=20 |language=en |pages=86–98 |doi=10.4314/actat.v20i1.6S |issn=2309-9089|doi-access=free }}
- Baard, Rachel (2022). Major Review: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology. 76 (2):165-167.
- {{Cite journal |title=Bloomsbury Collections - T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology |url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/t-t-clark-handbook-of-political-theology/chnineteen-feminist-theologies |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=www.bloomsburycollections.com |pages=285–300 |doi=10.5040/9780567670427.ch-019|url-access=subscription }}
- Sexism and Sin-Talk: Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition, Westminster John Knox Press, 2019.Loades, A. (2021). Rachel Sophia Baard, "Sexism and Sin-Talk: Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition." Theology, 124(1), 73–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X20985702tCraigo-Snell, Shannon, and Rachel Sophia Baard. "[Rezension Von: Baard, Rachel Sophia, Sexism and Sin-talk]." Interpretation, vol. 75, no. 4, 2021, pp. 339-341, doi:10.1177/00209643211027769b.
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnthZxYnuSk Dr. Rachel S. Baard, "Tear Down That Wall!" (Ephesians 2:11-22)]
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Category:South African theologians
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Category:21st-century South African philosophers
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