Morna Hooker Explained

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

Early life and education

Morna Hooker was born in Beddington on 19 May 1931. She went to Bristol University where she graduated with first class honours in theology, and then earned her MA. She worked for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester, then at the University of Durham.

Career and research

She became a Research Fellow in Arts at Durham. In 1961 she was elected into a temporary, then permanent lectureship at King's College London. In 1970, she left for a lectureship in Theology at University of Oxford, with a fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford.

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

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

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

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

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

Personal life

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

Awards

In 2004 she was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy.

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