Sarah Anne Coakley[9] FBA (born 1951) is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests.
[15] Her education continued at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), University of Cambridge (BA, first-class honours, 1973), and at Harvard Divinity School (ThM, 1975), to which she went as a Harkness Fellow.
In 2006, she was elected[citation needed] the Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge (the first woman appointed to this chair) and took up the position in 2007.
[17] In 2011, she became deputy chair of the School of Arts and Humanities with a four-year appointment on the general board of the university.
Her contributions to these areas have generally been by way of co-ordinating research projects and editing or co-editing collections of papers.
At the time of her appointment to the Norris–Hulse chair in Cambridge in 2006, Coakley had published her doctoral thesis and her widely discussed monograph Powers and Submissions.
[23] Coakley now lives in the US, but returns to the UK every year for a period in the summer during which she has permission to officiate at St Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford.
Most recently, Coakley has been working on a series of systematic theology texts she calls théologie totale, which began with God, Sexuality and the Self published in 2013.