Denys Turner

Not to be confused with Dennis Turner.

Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is a British philosopher and theologian.

Denys Turner
Born	Denys Alan Turner (1942-08-05) 5 August 1942 (age 83) England[1]
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[2] Roman Catholicism
Institutions	University of Bristol University of Birmingham Peterhouse, Cambridge Yale University

Career

Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University, having been appointed in 2005. He was previously the 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]

Personal life

Turner is Catholic and has three children: Ruth, John, and Brendan.^[2][4]

Bibliography

Books

• On the Philosophy of Karl Marx, Dublin: Sceptre (1968), pp. 93.
• Marxism and Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell (1983), pp. 256. Paperback edn. 1984.
• Eros and Allegory, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications (1995), pp. vi + 471.
• The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1995), pp. xi + 278. Paperback edition published September, 1998. Fourth impression, November, 1999. Electronic edition, 2002.
• Faith Seeking, London: SCM (2002), pp.xiii + 146.
• Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. xix + 271.
• Julian of Norwich, Theologian, New Haven: Yale University Press (2011), pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-300-16391-9. ISBN 0-300-16391-6.
• Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait, New Haven: Yale University Press (2013)
• God, Mystery, and Mystification. University of Notre Dame Press. 2019.

Articles

• Can a Christian be a Marxist June 1975. New Blackfriars.^[5]

Critical studies and reviews of Turner's work

God, Mystery, and Mystification

• New Blackfriars , Volume 102 , Issue 1097 , January 2021 , pp. 139 - 141^[6]

See also

• Slant (journal)