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Dawn has recorded five albums of her own songs.
Dawn has recorded five albums of her own songs.


She is the author of five books, on topics including the relationship between theology and the arts. Her PhD was on the theology of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Music, Fitz and Theology mould Maggi|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/history/40-years-women/music-fitz-and-theology-mould-maggi|access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref>
She is the author of five books and numerous articles, on topics including biblical interpretation and the relationship between theology and the arts. Her PhD was on the theology of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Music, Fitz and Theology mould Maggi|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/history/40-years-women/music-fitz-and-theology-mould-maggi|access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref>


Dawn has written articles for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maggi-dawn|title=Maggi Dawn|work=The Guardian}}</ref> ''[[The Christian Century]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiancentury.org/contributor/maggi-dawn|title=Maggi Dawn |work=The Christian Century}}</ref> and the Bible Reading Fellowship, and has appeared on [[BBC]] religion programs including ''[[Prayer for the Day]]''.<ref>Prayer for the Day Volume I: 365 Inspiring Daily Reflections Front Cover Watkins Media Limited, 16 October 2014, pp 147, 149</ref>
Dawn has written articles for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maggi-dawn|title=Maggi Dawn|work=The Guardian}}</ref> ''[[The Christian Century]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiancentury.org/contributor/maggi-dawn|title=Maggi Dawn |work=The Christian Century}}</ref> and the Bible Reading Fellowship, and has appeared on [[BBC]] religion programs including ''[[Prayer for the Day]]''.<ref>Prayer for the Day Volume I: 365 Inspiring Daily Reflections Front Cover Watkins Media Limited, 16 October 2014, pp 147, 149</ref>

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Maggi Dawn is a British musician, author, theologian and Anglican priest. She is Principal of St Mary's College at the University of Durham,[1] and professor in the Department of Theology and Religion. Previously she was Associate Professor of Theology and Literature and Associate Dean of Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School.[2][3]

Dawn took up the study of theology after a successful career as a singer-songwriter. Her undergraduate degree and PhD were from the University of Cambridge. She was ordained in 1999.[4]

Career

Dawn has recorded five albums of her own songs.

She is the author of five books and numerous articles, on topics including biblical interpretation and the relationship between theology and the arts. Her PhD was on the theology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.[5]

Dawn has written articles for The Guardian,[6] The Christian Century,[7] and the Bible Reading Fellowship, and has appeared on BBC religion programs including Prayer for the Day.[8]

Her 2013 book, Like the Wideness of the Sea, on arguments for the consecration of women as bishops, was cited in a debate in the UK parliament on the subject.[9]

Bibliography

Books

  • Beginnings and Endings: Daily Readings from Advent to Epiphany Oxford: BRF, 2007
  • The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and the Bible London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2010
  • The Accidental Pilgrim – New Journeys on Ancient Pathways London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011
  • Like the Wideness of the Sea: Women, Bishops and the Church of England London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2013

Articles

  • "You have to change to stay the same", in Cray, Dawn et al., The Postevangelical Debate SPCK, 1997
  • "The Art of Liturgy" in The Rite Stuff: Ritual in Contemporary Christian worship and mission Ed., Peter Ward Oxford, BRF: 2004
  • "I am the truth: text, hermeneutics and the person of Christ" in Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity? Eds. Dormor, Caddick and MacDonald New York: Continuum, 2005
  • "Whose Text is it anyway? – Limit and freedom in interpretation" in An Acceptable Sacrifice? Homosexuality and the Church Eds., Dormor and Morris, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. London: SPCK, 2007
  • "Reflections for Daily Prayer" 2015–16 (co-authored, ed. Hugh Hillyard-Parker London: Church House Publishing, 2015

Discography

  • Magnificent (Maggi Dawn) [1985]
  • No Pretending (Maggi Dawn) [Kingsway Publications, 1987]
  • Something in the Atmosphere (Maggi Dawn) [Big Jungle Music, 1990]
  • Follow (Maggi Dawn) [Big Jungle Music/Kingsway Publications, 1993]
  • Elements (Maggi Dawn) [Big Jungle Music/Kingsway Publications, 1996]

References

  1. ^ "Durham University appoints five new Heads of College". www.palatinate.org.uk. Palatinate. Durham's Independent Student Newspaper Since 1948. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. ^ Josh Hurn and Tom Saunders (16 July 2019). "Durham University appoints five new Heads of College". Palatinate.
  3. ^ "Maggi Dawn". Yale Divinity School. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Dawn, Maggi Eleanor".
  5. ^ "Music, Fitz and Theology mould Maggi". Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Maggi Dawn". The Guardian.
  7. ^ "Maggi Dawn". The Christian Century.
  8. ^ Prayer for the Day Volume I: 365 Inspiring Daily Reflections Front Cover Watkins Media Limited, 16 October 2014, pp 147, 149
  9. ^ Hansard, 13 March 2013, Column 310: Bishops (Consecration of Women) Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23)
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