Charry, Ellen Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Systematic Theology
Department of Theology
117 Hodge Hall
Phones: 609.921.0682; 858.205.5783
Fax: 609.921.1346
Email: ellen.charry@ptsem.edu
(Episcopalian)
 
Profile
Ellen T. Charry is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned the M.A. and the Ph.D. in religion from Temple University following the M.S.W. from Yeshiva University and the B.A. from Barnard College. Her interest is in human flourishing in Christian perspective. Her monographs are Franz Rosensweig on the Freedom of God (1987), By the Renewing of your Minds (1997), and God and the Art of Happiness (2010). Her edited works are Inquiring after God (2000), Same-Sex Relationships and the Nature of Marriage: A Theological Colloquy (Anglican Theological Review, 2011), and Austin Dogmatics of Paul M. van Buren (2012). She is past editor of Theology Today (1997–2004), and was a member of the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (1998–2010), and a member of the Pursuit of Happiness Project at the Center for Law and Religion at Emory University sponsored by the Templeton Foundation (2007–2010). Charry has served on the editorial boards of the Scottish Journal of Theology and Pro Ecclesia. She currently serves as an editor-at-large for The Christian Century. 
 
Major Publications
God and the Art of Happiness (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010)
Inquiring after God: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Blackwell, 2000)
By the Renewing of Your Minds: The Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Franz Rosenzweig on the Freedom of God (Wyndham Hall Press, 1987)
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