Marilyn McCord Adams
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The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (1943 – ) is an American philosopher of religion, a theologian and a writer on medieval philosophy. She has since 1 January 2004 been the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. Before that, she was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University and also taught at UCLA for a number of years. She was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and is a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
Her work in philosophy has focused on the philosophy of religion, especially the problem of evil, philosophical theology, metaphysics, and medievel philosophy. Her husband is the philosopher Robert Adams. She has argued for the legitimacy of homosexual as well as heterosexual relationships in Christian ethical theory.
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[edit] External links
- Marilyn McCord Adams' homepage at Oxford University
- Sermon on issues in human sexuality (2004)
[edit] Further reading
All by Marilyn McCord Adams:
- William of Ockham, (2 vols.) (1987) ISBN 0-26-801945-2
- Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (1999) ISBN 0-80-148686-6
- Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (2006) ISBN 0-52-168600-8
