Name Catherine Pickstock | ||
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Books After Writing: On the Liturgi, Repetition and Identity: T, Truth in Aquinas, A Short Guide to Plato |
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Catherine Pickstock is a British theologian and academic, who specialises in philosophical theology. She is Professor of Metaphysics and Poetics in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow and tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Academic career

From 1995 to 1998, Pickstock was a research fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. From 1998 to 2000, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. In 2000, she was appointed a lecturer in philosophy of religion in the Faculty of Divinity. In 2006, she was promoted to reader in Philosophy and Theology. From 2016 to 2017, she is also a Mellon Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2015, she was made Professor of Metaphysics and Poetics.

Pickstock is known for her contributions to the Radical Orthodoxy movement, the foundations of which are often credited to her mentor John Milbank. Her research and writing are based in philosophical theology, Platonic philosophy, and medieval theology. In particular, she has applied linguistics to theories of religious language, analogy and liturgy, looked at postmodern philosophy in relation to the reinterpretation of pre-modern theology and undertaken a reconsideration of the Platonic tradition in interaction with biblically-based faiths, especially rituals invoking divine intervention and understandings of the soul.
Selected works
