Linn Marie Tonstad

Assistant Professor of Christian Theology

Education

Ph.D, Yale University, 2009; M.A.R., Yale Divinity School, 2003; B.A., La Sierra University, 2001

Teaching Specialties

Christian theology, religion and sexuality, feminist and queer theory, philosophy of religion, theory and method in the study of religion

Research Interests

Constructive theology, especially doctrine of God/Trinity, Christology, and anthropology, feminist theology, queer theology, and theological method

Selected Publications

:: "Sexual difference and trinitarian death: Cross, kenosis and hierarchy in the Theo-Drama," Modern Theology 26:4 (October 2010): 603-631.
:: "The ultimate consequence of his self-distinction from the Father...': Difference and Hierarchy in Pannenberg's Trinity, " Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 51 (2009): 383-399.
:: Review of Marilyn McCord Adams, Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (with response by McCord Adams), in Conversations in Religion and Theology 8:1 (2010): 27-34.
:: Review of Ingolf Dalferth, Malum: Theologische Hermeneutik des Bösen and Eilert Herms (ed.), Grund und Gegenstand des Glaubens, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 17:2 (2010): 214-217 and 224-227.
:: "Bearing true witness," coauthored with Miroslav Volf, in The Ten Commandments for Jews, Christians, and Others, ed. Roger Van Harn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 179-193.

Professional Distinctions

Robert M. Leylan Prize Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University (2008-2009); A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship, Yale University (2003-2005)

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