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Comment: Please add some secondary sources about her or her work - academic reviews of her books will do. asilvering (talk) 03:15, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Willemien Otten is a medievalist, professor of the history of Christianity and theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School at the University of Chicago.[1] She holds the Dorothy Grant Maclear chair.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Willemien Otten completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1989 under Prof. M. B. Pranger, Prof. L. M. de Rijk. She was first professor at Boston College, then, she taught ten years at the University of Utrecht. Since 2007, she is professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Since 2019, she also holds a honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.[4]
Thought
[edit]She specialized on John Scotus Eriugena on whom she wrote her dissertation published as The Anthropology of Eriugena.[5] She worked on the concept of "nature," putting in discussion its early medieval conception with the contemporary understanding of "nature" - such as the one developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Following Eriugena, she relates her conception of "nature" with the Holy Scripture, for instance on account of their manifoldness.[6]
Books
[edit]- The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena. Leiden, Brill, 1991.
- From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study of Twelfth-Century Humanism. Boston: Brill, 2004.
- Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking. Stanford University Press, 2020.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Willemien Otten, The University of Chicago Website". Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "University of Chicago - Chair Announcement".
- ^ Bouchard, Constance B. (2005). "Willemien Otten. From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study of Twelfth-Century Humanism. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, number 127.) Boston: Brill. 2004". The American Historical Review. 110 (5): 1583–1584. doi:10.1086/ahr.110.5.1583.
- ^ "University of Chicago - Honorary Doctorate Announcement".
- ^ Duclow, D. F. (1993). "Willemien Otten, The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, volume 20. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991". Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis / Dutch Review of Church History. 73 (2): 222–223. doi:10.1163/002820393X00247.
- ^ a b Standford University Press. Stanford University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5036-0670-8.