Sally Douglas’s work disrupts neat categories. Sally is a theologian and a biblical scholar. She is a feminist who is committed to attending to the biblical text and to early church writings. Sally is a Uniting Church minister who works in the mode of ‘scholar pastor’ serving an inner-city parish and lecturing at Pilgrim Theological College in Melbourne. Sally is also an Honorary Research Associate within the University of Divinity and she writes for popular level audiences.
About Sally
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Sally’s interdisciplinary research spans Second Testament, early church studies and theology as she continues to reflexively engage with early texts and the potential implications of re-engaging with often suppressed texts in contemporary context. In particular, Sally’s research attends to questions of christology, soteriology, gender and discipleship.
The central question that informs Sally’s research and writing in both academic and popular spheres is ‘So what?’ – ‘So what might this mean for how we understand ancient texts in light of contemporary research?’; ‘So what might this mean for understandings of the Divine?’ and ‘So what might this mean for how we live?’.
Amidst all of this Sally seeks to cultivate contemplative prayer practices within her own life and she loves seeing live (loud) music.