Kathryn Tanner is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University. Tanner is a Christian theologian in the Protestant tradition; she addresses contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods such as critical, social, and feminist theory. Her books God and Creation in Christian Theology and The Politics of God discuss the coherence and practical force of Christian beliefs about God's relation to the world. Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology explores the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method. Her brief systematic theology, Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity, centers on the incarnation. Her latest book, Economy of Grace, explores the intersections between theology and economics.
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