Biography:Janet Soskice

Short description: Canadian-born English theologian

Janet Soskice
Born	(1951-05-16) May 16, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian English
Other names	Janet Martin Soskice
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Sheffield Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
Sub-discipline	Philosophical theology philosophy of religion
School or tradition	Roman Catholicism
Institutions	Duke Divinity School Jesus College, Cambridge
Main interests	Relationship between religion and science religious language women in Christianity

Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951) is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sheffield University. She then obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford. She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at 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, religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.

Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith. Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.

Works

Books

• Metaphor and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-19-824727-2. https://archive.org/details/metaphorreligiou0000sosk. 
• The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-154433-0. 
• The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4000-4133-6. 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

• Soskice, Janet Martin; Ford, David; Quash, Ben, eds (2005). Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-48840-5.