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Dr. Fredrica Harris Thompsett
Mary Wolfe Professor of Historical Theology and faculty emerita

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Dr. Fredrica Harris Thompsett is a well-known leader in the Episcopal Church. A historian and theologian, she has taught at Episcopal seminaries for over 35 years. Professor Harris Thompsett joined the EDS faculty in 1983, where for fourteen years she also served as Academic Dean. She is the author of several articles and books which focus on the history of leadership among women and men, lay and ordained. The coeditor of a recent Episcopal bestseller, Confronted by God, The Essential Verna Dozier, two other recent books are Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church (co-edited with Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook), and a popular volume in the New Church's Teaching Series, Living with History. Professor Harris Thompsett is best known in baptismal ministry circles for We Are Theologians, recently reprinted as a Seabury Classic. Currently she and Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook are working highlighting shared leadership in small communities, Born of Water, Born of Spirit. Professor Thompsett is also sought-after as a keynote speaker, conference leader, and preacher. Her reflections on Baptism are now available from EDS in a professionally-produced DVD and Study Guide entitled "Wade in the Water."

Education: BA, Denison University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago; DD, General Theological Seminary; DD, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest; DCL, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; DHL, Hamilton College.

Current positions: EDS faculty, 1984-present.

Past positions: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago; Associate Professor of Church History, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; Visiting Professor of Church History, General Theological Seminary; Director, Board for Theological Education, Episcopal Church Center; EDS faculty, 1984-present; Academic Dean, 1986-1999.

Recent publications include:

Deeper Joy: Lay Women And Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church (with Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook; 2005, Church Publishing );

Confronted by God: The Essential Verna Dozier

We Are Theologians: We Are Theologians (Seabury Classics)(reissued 2004, Church Publishing);
Living With History (The New Church's Teaching Series, V. 5) (2000, Cowley, The New Church?s Teaching Series);

Courageous Incarnation: In Intimacy, Work, Childhood, and Aging (Cowley);

Christian Feminist Perspectives on History, Theology and the Bible (Forward Movement);

?Baptismal Living: Steadfast Covenant of Hope? in Anglican Theological Review;

?Women in the American Episcopal Church? in Encyclopedia of Women in Religion;

Areas of interest and research: Anglican church history and theology; the English Reformation; baptismal ministry, women's vocations in the history of Christianity, and preaching.

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