Carol Harrison (theologian)

Carol Harrison is a British theologian, church historian and academic, specialising in Augustine of Hippo. Since January 2015, she has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford; she is the first woman and first lay person to hold this appointment.^[1][2] She is a fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. On 27 April 2015, she was installed as a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.^[3] She was previously Professor of the History and Theology of the Latin West at Durham University.^[2]

Selected works

• Harrison, Carol (1992). Beauty and revelation in the thought of Saint Augustine. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198263422.
• Harrison, Carol (2000). Augustine: Christian truth and fractured humanity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198752202.
• Harrison, Carol (2006). Rethinking Augustine's early theology an argument for continuity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199281661.
• Harrison, Carol (2013). The art of listening in the early church. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199641439.
• Harrison, Carol; Humfress, Caroline; Sandwell, Isabella, eds. (2014). Being Christian in late antiquity: a festschrift for Gillian Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199656037.

References

1. Elmes, John (31 July 2014). "Appointments". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
2. "Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity Announced". Faculty of Theology and Religion. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
3. "Professor Carol Harrison". Academic community. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 21 May 2015.