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Denys Turner
Born
Denys Alan Turner
(1942-08-05) 5 August 1942 (age 81)
England[2]
Spouses
Marie Lamb
(m. 1969; div. 2015)
Courtney Palmbush
(m. 2015)
Children
Ruth Turner
John Turner
Brendan Turner
Academic background
Alma mater
University College Dublin
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Thesis
The Ascription of Moral Weakness (1975)
Doctoral advisor
R. M. Hare
Academic work
Discipline
Philosophy
theology
School or tradition
Marxism[1]
Roman Catholicism
Institutions
University of Bristol
University of Birmingham
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Yale University
Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is an English philosopher and theologian. He is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University having been appointed in 2005, previously having been Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has written widely on political theory and social theory in relation to Christian theology, as well as on medieval thought, in particular, mystical theology and Christian mysticism.
Prior to his position at Cambridge, he was Professor of Theology and Head of Department at the University of Birmingham and has also held Head of Department at the University of Bristol. Turner also worked at University College Dublin and Manhattanville College, New York. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.[3]
Turner has three children: Ruth,[1] John, and Brendan.[citation needed]
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^McDonald, Frank (2018). Truly Frank: A Dublin Memoir. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-97765-1.
^"Denys Turner - Department of Religion". Princeton University Department of Religion. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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