A professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Kathryn E. Tanner relates past thought from the history of Western theological traditions to areas of contemporary concern using critical, social, and feminist theory. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College, where she earned distinction in philosophy, she remained at Yale for graduate work as a Douglas G. MacIntosh Fellow in the philosophy of religion. After earning a master's degree in philosophy, she took a Ph.D. in theology in 1985. Dr. Tanner subsequently joined the university's religious studies faculty as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1991, and three years later accepted an associate professorship in theology at Chicago's Divinity School. She was named to her current position four years ago. She has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Divinity School and taught in the Pew Traditio program for undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Tanner has delivered invited lectures at a number of American and European educational institutions and presented papers in the United States, England, The Netherlands, and Belgium. A former member of the steering committees of the Theology and Religious Reflection and the Narrative Interpretation and Theology sections of the American Academy of Religion, she currently serves on the Theology Committee of the Episcopal House of Bishops. She previously served as co-editor of the Journal of Religion, on the editorial board of Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, and as general editor of the Theology and Philosophy of Religion Division of the Religious Studies Review. She is presently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Modern Theology, and the Scottish Journal of Theology. In addition to publishing articles in academic journals, she was co-editor (with Paul Lakeland) for the Fortress Press Guides to the Theological Inquiry Series and (with Delwin Brown and Shelia Davaney) of Converging on Culture: Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism (2001) and served as editor of Spirit in the Cities, which was published by Fortress earlier this year. Dr. Tanner's influential first book, God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny of Empowerment (1988), recovered from pre-modern theology the concept of a radically transcendent God, and she went on to discuss the coherence and practical force of Christian beliefs about God's relation to the world in her second book, The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (1992). She explored the relevance of cultural studies for rethinking theological method in Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (1997), and in her recent book, Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity, published by T and T Clark in 2001, she sketches the outline of a full systematic theology that focuses on the Incarnation as the culminating expression of divine love. Dr. Tanner is completing a new book for Fortress entitled The Economy of Grace and editing (with John Webster and Iain Torrance) The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.