Dr Janice McRandal

Sessional Lecturer in Systematic Theology

PhD (CSU), BTh Hons (CSU) BTh (SCD)

Profile

Dr Janice McRandal is a feminist theologian who works with critical theory to explore themes of systematic theology alongside politics and popular culture. Having worked in theological education for over a decade, Janice brings a wealth of experience in research and leadership. She is currently the Lead Investigator in the research project Figuring the Maternal in Political Theology, a winning grant that follows on from her previous Extraordinary Large Grant project, Figuring the Enemy.  Along with her academic writing, Janice supervises numerous research projects and students, and enjoys teaching as regularly as time allows. 

Publications

Books

Speaking of Christ/Christa/Christx, co-edited with Stephen Burns.  London: SCM Press, Forthcoming 2024.

Contested Theology: bodies, sport, and motion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Forthcoming 2024.

Whistling in the Dark: on the theology of Craig Keen, co-edited with Stephen John Wright. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2024.

Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.

Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference: a contribution to feminist systematic theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Book Chapters

“Feminist Christology: Apophatic Avenues”. In Speaking of Christ/Christa/Christx. Edited by Janice McRandal and Stephen Burns.  London: SCM Press, Forthcoming 2024.

“Does the Child know there are Two?: maternal disruptions from disability”. In God of Interruption – Essays in Feminist-Maternal Theology (Interrupting Motherhood). Edited by Cristina Lledo Gomez and Julia H. Brumbaugh, Paulist Press, Forthcoming, 2024.

“On not reading Barth: my measly resistance”. In Women in Theology: Method and Practice in the Digital Space.  Edited by Elissa Cutter and Alison Murray. Paulist Press, Forthcoming 2024.

“Systematic Theology”. In Method and Praxis in Feminist Theologies. Edited by Stephen Burns and Katharine Massam. London: SCM Press, Forthcoming 2024.

“Saying No to Jesus: Feminist Theology and the Christian Liberal Fantasy”. In Cultural Afterlives, Jesus in a Global Perspective Volume 3. The Westar Studies Series. Edited by Gregory Jenks. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

“Risky Words, Dissenting Bodies”. In Whistling in the Dark: on the theology of Craig Keen, co-edited with Stephen John Wright. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

“You Don’t Understand Me: Serena Williams, Christology, and Non-Identity”. In Intersections and Fractures: (Re)visions of Feminist Theologies, Decolonizing Theology Series, Lexington Fortress Press. Edited by Stephen Burns and Rebekah Pryor. Lexington Fortress Press, 2022.

“Against Authority: writing feminist theology after the end of history”. In Power, Authority, Love. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Rebecca Pryor. Routledge, 2021.

“Embodied Gods: Anthropomorphism and Subjectivity”. In Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender - ‘God’ Edited by Sîan Hawthorne, 2017.

“Being George Eliot: an impossible standpoint?”. In Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology. Janice McRandal, editor.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.

 “On Power and Silence: Reading Foucault with Coakley”. In Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology. Janice McRandal, editor.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.

 “Gender: Difference, Sin and the Trinity”. In Speaking Differently: Essays in Theological Anthropology. Phillip Tolliday and Heather Thomson, eds. Canberra: Barton Books, 2013.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Apocalyptic Disappointment: imperialistic teleology and the age of crisis”. In Colloquium. 2022, 54 no. 2:109-128.

“The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude”. In The International Journal of Systematic Theology. Vol 21, Issue 2. (2019), 223-225.

“Subject to Spirit: The Promise of Pentecostal Feminist Pneumatology and Its Witness to Systematics”. In Pneuma 35:1 (2013), pp 48-60.

“A Free Man’s World: Open Theism and the Feminist Critique of Autonomy”. In Aldersgate Papers 9 (2011).

“Sarah Coakley: Systematic Theology and the Future of Feminism”. In Pacifica 24:3 (2011), pp. 300-314.

“Struggled For and Not Possessed: Language for the Divine and the Apophatic Turn”. In St Mark’s Review 215 (2011), pp. 71-86.

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