Denys Turner

Denys Turner
Denys Turner
Born	Denys Alan Turner; 5 August 1942 (age 82); England
Spouses	Marie Lamb (m. 1969; div. 2015); Courtney Palmbush (m. 2015);
Children	Ruth Turner; John Turner; Brendan Turner;
Academic background
Alma mater	University College Dublin; St Edmund Hall, Oxford;
Thesis	The Ascription of Moral Weakness (1975)
Doctoral advisor	R. M. Hare
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy; theology;
School or tradition	Marxism; Roman Catholicism;
Institutions	University of Bristol; University of Birmingham; Peterhouse, Cambridge; Yale University;

Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian.

Career

Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University, having been appointed in 2005. He was previously the Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has written widely on political theory and social theory in relation to Christian theology, as well as on medieval thought, in particular, mystical theology and Christian mysticism.

Prior to his position at Cambridge, he was Professor of Theology and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham and has also held Head of Department at the University of Bristol. Turner also worked at University College Dublin and Manhattanville College, New York. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.^[3]

Turner is Catholic and has three children: Ruth, John, and Brendan.^[1]^[4] He is a member of Opus Dei.

On the Philosophy of Karl Marx, Dublin: Sceptre (1968), pp. 93.
Marxism and Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell (1983), pp. 256. Paperback edn. 1984.
Eros and Allegory, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications (1995), pp. vi + 471.
The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995), pp. xi + 278. Paperback edition published September, 1998. Fourth impression, November, 1999. Electronic edition, 2002.
Faith Seeking, London: SCM (2002), pp.xiii + 146.
Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. xix + 271.
Julian of Norwich, Theologian, New Haven: Yale University Press (2011), pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-300-16391-9. ISBN 0-300-16391-6.
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013)
God, Mystery, and Mystification. University of Notre Dame Press. 2019.

O'Connor, John (January 2021). "[Untitled review]". New Blackfriars. 102 (1097): 139–141. doi:10.1111/nbfr.12619. S2CID 230593743.

^ ^a ^b Beckett, Francis; Hencke, David; Kochan, Nick (2016). Blair Inc.: The Money, the Power, the Scandals. London: John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78606-221-5.
^ McDonald, Frank (2018). Truly Frank: A Dublin Memoir. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-97765-1.
^ "Denys Turner - Department of Religion". Princeton University Department of Religion. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^ "Denys Turner | Yale Divinity School". divinity.yale.edu. Retrieved 30 September 2024.

Academic offices
Preceded by Nicholas Lash	Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity 1999–2005	Succeeded by Sarah Coakley

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Denys Turner
Born	Denys Alan Turner (1942-08-05) 5 August 1942 (age 82) England^[2]
Spouses	Marie Lamb (m. 1969; div. 2015) Courtney Palmbush (m. 2015)
Children	Ruth Turner John Turner Brendan Turner

Academic background
Alma mater	University College Dublin St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Thesis	The Ascription of Moral Weakness (1975)
Doctoral advisor	R. M. Hare
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
School or tradition	Marxism^[1] Roman Catholicism
Institutions	University of Bristol University of Birmingham Peterhouse, Cambridge Yale University