Janet Soskice
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| Born | May 16, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Other names | Janet Martin Soskice |
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Janet Martin Soskice (born 16 May 1951)[1][verification needed] 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.[2] She then obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford.[3]
She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.[4] 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,[5] religious language, and the relationship between science and religion.[6]
Her book The Sisters of Sinai details the history of the discovery of the Syriac Sinaiticus by Agnes and Margaret Smith.[7] Soskice has also written that she became religious following a very "dramatic but banal" religious experience.[8]
She was president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain 1992-1994.[9]
