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Carol Harrison (theologian)

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Carol Harrison is a British theologian, church historian and academic, specialising in Augustine of Hippo. Since January 2015, she has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford; she is the first woman and first lay person to hold this appointment.[1][2] She is a fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. On 27 April 2015, she was installed as a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[3] She was previously Professor of the History and Theology of the Latin West at Durham University.[2]

Selected works

  • Harrison, Carol (1992). Beauty and revelation in the thought of Saint Augustine. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198263422.
  • Harrison, Carol (2000). Augustine: Christian truth and fractured humanity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198752202.
  • Harrison, Carol (2006). Rethinking Augustine's early theology an argument for continuity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199281661.
  • Harrison, Carol (2013). The art of listening in the early church. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199641439.
  • Harrison, Carol; Humfress, Caroline; Sandwell, Isabella, eds. (2014). Being Christian in late antiquity: a festschrift for Gillian Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199656037.

References

  1. ^ Elmes, John (31 July 2014). "Appointments". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity Announced". Faculty of Theology and Religion. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Professor Carol Harrison". Academic community. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 21 May 2015.