2. Professor Carol Harrison

Professor Carol Harrison

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Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity
carol.harrison@theology.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

I read Theology at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; did my doctoral research in Oxford; spent two years at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; then returned to the UK to take up my first job as Lecturer in Theology at Hull University. After a year I was appointed Lecturer in the History and  Theology and the Latin West at Durham University, where I remained for just over twenty-five years (I was appointed Professor in 2008) . I moved to Oxford in 2015.

Research Interests

Early Christianity. My research has focussed on the Latin West, especially Augustine of Hippo (354-430); auditory culture; spirituality; language; exegesis; sense perception and materiality; music.

  

   

Selected Publications

  • Mellifluous Music in Early Western Christianity

    2018
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    Journal article
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    God's Song and Music's Meanings

  • Songs Without Words: Some Theological Reflections on Liturgical Jazz

    2018
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    Journal article
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    Liturgical Jazz

  • 'Doxology and Loving Knowledge in Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana book 1'

    2018
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    Journal article
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    Journal of Religion and Society

  • Worship as the Beginning and End of Preaching

    2017
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    Conference paper
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    Ministerium Sermonis

  • Patristic Studies in the Twenty-First Century Proceedings of an International Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies

    2015
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    Book
    The theme of the conference was the state of patristic studies in the twenty-first century, focusing on the implications of the various settings and interests of patristic studies for the future of the field.
    Religion

  • Getting carried away: Why did augustine sing?

    2015
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    Journal article
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    Augustinian Studies
    © 2015 by Augustinian Studies. All rights reserved. Why are some things spoken and other things sung? What effect does singing have on the hearer or the singer and especially on their affective and intellectual cognition? This essay, which was originally conceived and delivered as a lecture, asks why it was that Saint Augustine was so ambivalent about singing. It examines both his reasons and his tactics for avoiding singing as well as the ways and the contexts in which he can be shown to have positively embraced it. It argues that both Augustine's theological reflection and his practice included a role for spontaneous, non-verbal expression in singing, as well as for the more measured poetry of the psalms and hymns that, in Augustine's day, had already become a part of the liturgy and of corporate worship.

  • HUGH LAST FELLOWSHIP Sensuous objects: sense, image and representation in early Christian baptism

    2015
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    Journal article
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    PAPERS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME

  • The Typoology of Listening: The Transformation of Scripture in Early Christian Preaching

    2014
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    Chapter
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    Delivering the Word Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition
    Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition William John Lyons, Isabella Sandwell ... situation from which the audience members heard his words could significantly affect the message they took away from his preaching. 2.
    Religion

  • Handbook on the economics of the media

    2014
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    Chapter
    © Robert G. Picard and Steven S. Wildman 2015. All rights reserved. This Handbook explores the economic features of the media and its infrastructure to provide readers with a sophisticated understanding of the critical issues and their influence on companies, audiences and regulators. The contributors explore and explain the impact of underlying factors such as multi-sided platforms, advertising and industry structure. They assess the unique economic factors affecting print, broadcast and broadband-based media, and highlight how the economics of the media can influence policy making. Each original chapter introduces the reader to a specific topic, reviews the literature on the development of knowledge in the field, explores critiques of the approach, and provides an understanding of applying this knowledge and the implications.

  • Being Christian in Late Antiquity A Festschrift for Gillian Clark

    2014
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    Book
    Ashbrook Harvey, S., 1998. The Stylite's liturgy: ritual and religious identity in late antiquity. Journal of Early Christian Studies 6.3: 523–39. Bowersock, G., Brown, P . and Grabar, O. 1999. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the PostClassical World.
    History

  • Playing Ball: Augustine and Plutarch on Capturing Wisdom

    2014
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    Chapter
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    Being Christian in Late Antiquity A Festschrift for Gillian Clark
    Ashbrook Harvey, S., 1998. The Stylite's liturgy: ritual and religious identity in late antiquity. Journal of Early Christian Studies 6.3: 523–39. Bowersock, G., Brown, P . and Grabar, O. 1999. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the PostClassical World.
    History

  • The Art of Listening in the Early Church

    2013
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    Book
    This book examines the ways in which, by practicing this art, early Christians effectively became 'literate' listeners, with an ability not only to grasp the basic message of the faith but also to follow the ways inwhich it was elaborated, ...
    History

  • Augustine

    2013
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    Chapter
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    The New Cambridge History of the Bible From the Beginnings to 600
    The second half of the volume discusses the period running from the New Testament to 600, including chapters on the Coptic, Syriac and Latin bibles, the 'Gnostic' use of the scriptures, pagan engagement with the Bible, the use of the Bible ...
    Religion
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