Paula S. Datsko Barker

Paula Barker teaches medieval and Reformation church history with a focus on developments in England, and Spirituality. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Michigan, a master of divinity degree from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in church history from the University of Chicago. She is excited about her recent work in theological aesthetics, which finds practical expression in her use of the arts to teach history, theology, and spirituality. Having studied mystical theology for many years, her research and writing now focus on how music has been understood theologically over the centuries as a means of experiencing the divine. She is working on a book entitled Controversial Dissonance: Music and the Experience of God in Reformation Theologies. Her most recent article is on “The Psalms as an Instrument of Social Cohesion in the Ecclesiastical Polity of Richard Hooker,” forthcoming in Psalms in the Early Modern World. Other articles and reviews have appeared in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Anglican Theological Review, Church History, Journal of Religion, and Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

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Posted at January 5, 2005 05:23 PM