Sarah Coakley

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor emerita at Cambridge University, where she served from 2007 to 2018. From 2018 she has been an Honorary Professor at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews University, and from 2022 an Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). She is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Lund, St. Andrews, Toronto (St. Michael’s College), and London (Heythrop College).

She held earlier academic positions at Lancaster University (1976-1991), Oriel College, Oxford (1991-93), Harvard Divinity School (1993-2007; Mallinckrodt Professor, 1995-2007), and a visiting Professorship at Princeton University (2003-4). She gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 2012.

She is currently actively engaged in writing the remaining volumes of her systematic theology, and in editing her recent papers in philosophy of religion. She will give two lectures this fall as the 2025-25 McDonald Chair, “Revisiting Modern Christian ‘Mysticism’:  What Did the 20th Century Mean by it, and Why does it still Matter?” and “Returning to Classic ‘Mystical Theology’: Why Contemplation and Apophasis are Important for Contemporary Political Theology.”