Elizabeth A. Johnson Papers

Fonds

Identifier: EAJ

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Personal papers, correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, subject files, photographs, audio-visual material, books, journal articles, book chapters, other scholarly writings, lectures, emails, and printed ephemera; with documents from her youth, her days as a student at the Catholic University of America, her career as a theologian at Catholic University and Fordham, her presidency of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and her life as a Sister of Saint Joseph; including media clippings, honorary degrees and other honors, reviews of her books, scholarly and popular writings, appreciations and attacks; documenting her tenure battle at Catholic University, Rev. Charles Curran's struggles there, and the reaction of the U.S. bishops against Quest for the Living God.

Dates

Creation: 1941-2019.

Creator

Johnson, Elizabeth A. (Person)

Language of Materials

English.

Background

Roman Catholic Theologian; member of the Congregation of Saint Joseph; professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, 1981-1991, and since then at Fordham University; author of Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, She Who Is: the Mystery of God in a Feminist Theological Discourse , Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit, Friends of God and Prophets: a Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints, Jesus-Sophia: Ramifications for Contemporary Theology, and Quest for the living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God.