Julia A. Lamm received her B.A. in History and in Philosophy from The College of St. Catherine, and her A.M. in Religious Studies and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago. She is an historical and systematic theologian with specializations in Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834); Julian of Norwich (1343-ca. 1416); Christian mysticism; the doctrine of God, the doctrine of grace, and Christology; the history of Christian thought; and the relation between theology and philosophy. On the faculty of Georgetown University since 1989, she is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), and is founding Director of the James M. and Margaret H. Costan Lecture in Early Christianity at Georgetown.
She is the author of The Living God: Schleiermacher's Theological Appropriation of Spinoza (Penn State University Press, 1996), God's 'Kinde' Love: Julian of Norwich's Vernacular Theology of Grace (Herder&Herder/Crossroad, 2019), Schleiermacher's Plato (De Gruyter, 2021), and numerous scholarly articles.
She is also translator and editor of Schleiermacher: Christmas Dialogue, the Second Speech, and Other Selections for the Classics of Western Spirituality (Paulist, 2014), and editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012).
COURSES TAUGHT:
Undergraduate: The Problem of God; History of Christian Thought I & History of Christian Thought II; Medieval Women Mystics; Religion in Medieval England; God & Gender; Faith Seeking Understanding; Theology of Thomas Aquinas; Introduction to Catholic Theology.
Graduate: Early Christian Thought; Medieval & Reformation Theology; Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Theology; God in Christian Thought; Mysticism in Christianity and Islam (with Paul Heck); Grace Seminar