Melanie A. May
John Price Crozer Professor of Theology
B.A., Manchester College
M.Div., Harvard Divinity School
A.M., Harvard University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Community Activities
Vice-Moderator of the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order (through 2005); member of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA Commission on Faith and Order (through 2000); locally, a member of the Rochester Women's Network; give lectures in various settings locally and elsewhere.
Research Interests
Women in ministry, possibilities and problems; theological reflection on our culture of hate and the God of love; the Great War and the birth of twentieth century theology; ecumenical theology, especially understandings of "unity;" "place" as theological subject.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Contemporary Christian Theology; Women in the Worldwide Church; Pornography, Prostitution, and the Iconography of Women in the Christian Tradition; Christian Theological Responses to Religious Pluralism; Theological Perspectives on Power, Authority, and Abuse; Women in Ministry: Possibilities and Problems; Violence Against Women in Religious Perspective and Practice.
Recent Publications
A Body Knows: A Theopoetics of Death and Resurrection
Denomination: American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.
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