Sarah Coakley is the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School and an Anglican priest in the diocese of Oxford. A theologian whose work has had a growing international influence over the past decade, she has embarked on a four-volume systematic theology, which will be the first such major undertaking attempted from a feminist perspective. Dr. Coakley serves as an associate priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Waban, Massachusetts, during the academic year and, in the summer, at St. Mary and St. Nicholas Church in Littlemore, Oxford, where she does chaplaincy work in a mental hospital. She was once the chaplain in a Boston jail. Educated at the Blackheath High School in London, she taught English and Latin to young Africans in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho, before going up to New Hall, Cambridge, where she took first-class honors in theology. She went on to earn a master's degree in theology at Harvard as a Harkness Fellow. Returning to England, she became a junior lecturer in religious studies at the University of Lancaster in 1976 and received her doctorate in theology from Cambridge in 1982. She was appointed senior lecturer at Lancaster in 1990, and the next year, she became the first woman to be appointed a tutorial fellow in theology at Oriel College, Oxford. She came to Harvard as a tenured professor of Christian theology in 1993 and was named to her present chair in 1995. The recipient of two Cambridge essay prizes-the Chadwick and the Hulsean, a Henry Luce III Fellowship, and a Lilly Foundation Fellowship, Dr. Coakley has delivered numerous invited lectures in the United Kingdom and the United States, including, most recently, the 2005 Hensley Henson Lectures at Oxford University. She has served as a member of the National Advisory Board of the Christian Scholars Program and is a member of the board of advisors of the John Templeton Foundation and on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, The Harvard Theological Review, Theology Today, Ecclesiology, and Spiritus. In addition to contributing articles to academic journals and essays to collected volumes, she is the co-editor (with David A. Pailin) of The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine (1993), (with Kay Shelemay) of Pain and Its Transformations (forthcoming in 2005), and (with Fraser Watts) of Spiritual Healing (forthcoming 2006) and the editor of Religion and the Body (1997 and 2000) and Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa (2003). Dr. Coakley is the author of Christ Without Absolutes: A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch (1988 and 1994) and Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender (2002), a study which combines analytic philosophy of religion and theology while reflecting the author's deep interest in spiritual practice and feminist thought. Her most recent book, God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity', the first volume in her systematic theology, will be published next year by Cambridge University Press.