Marilyn McCord Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams (born 1943) is an American philosopher and priest of the Episcopal Church. She specialises in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy.

Family

Adams is the daughter of William Clark McCord and Wilmah Brown McCord. In 1966, she married the philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams.

Education

Adams was educated at the University of Illinois (AB); Cornell University (PhD 1967); and Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM 1984, 1985); and holds the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford (2008).[1]

Career

Adams is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Before that she was, in reverse chronological order, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University, and a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. She is also a former President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015.[3]

Adams was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in 1987 and from 2004 to 2009[4] was residentiary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Work and writing

Marilyn McCord Adams, speaking in 2007.

Adams' work in philosophy has focused on the philosophy of religion, especially the problem of evil, philosophical theology, metaphysics and medieval philosophy. Her work on the problem of evil largely focuses on what she calls "horrendous evils".[5] She is an avowed Christian universalist, believing that ultimately all will receive salvation and restoration in Christ:

Traditional doctrines of hell err again by supposing either that God does not get what God wants with every human being ("God wills all humans to be saved" by God's antecedent will) or that God deliberately creates some for ruin. To be sure, many human beings have conducted their ante-mortem lives in such a way as to become anti-social persons. Almost none of us dies with all the virtues needed to be fit for heaven. Traditional doctrines of hell suppose that God lacks the will or the patience or the resourcefulness to civilize each and all of us, to rear each and all of us up into the household of God. They conclude that God is left with the option of merely human penal systems viz., liquidation or quarantine![6]

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. https://www.cathedral.org/staff/PE-5H7BE-CN001N.shtml
  2. http://www.smrphil.org/society.html
  3. http://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/rutgers-philosopher-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences/20150512#.VZvou50o6M8
  4. "Mccord Adams appointed patron of No Anglican Covenant Coalition", Episcopal News Service, 14 February 2012, retrieved 9 October 2013.
  5. Cited by Richard Beck: "Christ and Horrors, Part 3: Horror Defeat, Universalism, and God's Reputation", Experimental Theology, 19 March 2007.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Keith Ward
Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
2004–2009
Succeeded by
Graham Ward
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