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Morna Hooker

Morna Dorothy Hooker (born 19 May 1931) is a British theologian and New Testament scholar.

Early life and education

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Morna Hooker was born in Beddington on 19 May 1931.[1] She went to the University of Bristol where she graduated with first-class honours in theology, and then earned her MA degree.[2] Her PhD degree was awarded by the University of Manchester, though completed at the University of Durham under C. K. Barrett owing to the unexpected death of her Manchester supervisor.[3]

Career and research

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She became a research fellow in Arts at Durham.[4] In 1961, she was elected to a temporary, then permanent, lectureship at King's College London.[4] In 1970, she left for a lectureship in Theology at University of Oxford, with a fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford.[4]

She was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1976 to 1998,[4] becoming the first woman to hold the Cambridge degree of DD,[4] and as of 1998 is Professor Emerita. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bristol (1994)[4] and the University of Edinburgh (1997).[5]

She remains a Fellow of Robinson College, having joined the fellowship as a founding Fellow in 1977,[4] and is also a Fellow of King's College London (1979)[4] and an honorary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.[6]

Hooker was the first woman to be elected President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international society of New Testament scholars (1988).[4] She was the first woman to become a joint editor of The Journal of Theological Studies.[4]

She has been an active Methodist local preacher.[2] She has also been Chair of the Wesley House Trustees.[7]

Her scholarly interests lie in early Christian thought in the setting of Jewish biblical inheritance.[7] Her research focuses in particular on the Epistles of Paul and the Gospel according to Mark, as well as on Christology.[2] Her theological standpoint on soteriology is Arminian.[8]

Personal life

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She is the widow of fellow theologian and Methodist minister the Rev. David Stacey, and is sometimes styled Morna Hooker-Stacey.[4]

Awards

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In 2004, she was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy.[3][9]

Publications

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Books

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  • Jesus and the Servant: The Influence of the Servant Concept of Deutero-Isaiah in the New Testament (1959)
  • The Son of Man in Mark (1967)
  • What about the New Testament? (jt. ed. 1975)
  • Interchange and atonement (1978)
  • Studying the New Testament (1979)
  • Pauline Pieces/A Preface to Paul (1980)
  • Paul and Paulinism (jt. ed. 1982)
  • Trial and tribulation in Mark XIII (1983)
  • The Message of Mark (1983)
  • Continuity and Discontinuity: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Setting (1986)
  • From Adam to Christ: Essays on St Paul (1990)
  • The Gospel according to St Mark (1993)
  • Not Ashamed of the Gospel: New Testament Interpretations of the Death of Christ (1994)
  • The Signs of a Prophet: The prophetic actions of Jesus (1997)
  • Beginnings: Keys that open the Gospels (1997)
  • Endings: Invitations to discipleship (2003)
  • Paul: A short introduction (2003)
  • Not in Word Alone (ed. 2003)
  • Paul: A beginner's Guide (2008)

Articles

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  • Hooker, Morna (2009). "Authority on her Head: An Examination of I Cor. xi. 10". New Testament Studies. 10 (3).

Notes and references

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Citations

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  1. ↑ Sleeman 2002, p. 253, 254.
  2. 1 2 3 Moule 1996, p. 1.
  3. 1 2 BA 2004.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Moule 1996, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Williams 1997.
  6. ↑ LC 2020.
  7. 1 2 WH 2020.
  8. ↑ Niemelä 2012, p. 24.
  9. ↑ Halcomb 2012, p. 29.

Sources

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