Marcella Althaus-Reid

Marcella Althaus-Reid

Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952[1] – 20 February 2009) was Professor of contextual theology at New College, University of Edinburgh. When appointed, she was the only woman professor of theology at a Scottish University, and the first woman professor of theology at New College in its 160 year history [2] . She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and graduated with a Bachelor in Theology Degree from ISEDET, the Protestant University Institute in Buenos Aires [3]. She completed her Ph.D at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her interests included Liberation Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology.

Prof Althaus-Reid died on Friday 20 February 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Works

Her published works include:

  • Indecent Theology. Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
  • The Queer God
  • From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology
  • Queer Theology. A Primer (co-edited with Prof L. Isherwood)
  • From Liberation Theology to Indecent Theology – the Trouble with Normality in Theology from Petrella, Ivan (editor) Latin American Liberation Theology – The Next Generation Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005

References

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) . Her birth date was given as 11 May 1952 in an obituary in Herald Scotland 11 March 2009
  2. ^ obituary in Herald Scotland 11 March 2009
  3. ^ Isedet - Instituto Superior Evangelico de Estudios Teologicos

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