Jane Dempsey Douglass

Jane Dempsey Douglass
Born
Elizabeth Jane Dempsey

(1933-03-22) March 22, 1933 (age 91)
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Other namesElizabeth Jane Dempsey Douglass
TitlePresident of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (1990–1997)
Spouse
Gordon K. Douglass
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(died 2017)​
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Doctrine of Justification in the Preaching of John Geiler of Keiserberg (1963)
Academic work
Discipline
  • Theology
  • history
Sub-discipline
School or tradition
Institutions
Doctoral studentsHaruko Nawata Ward[1]
Notable studentsPaul C. H. Lim[2]

Elizabeth Jane Dempsey Douglass[3] (born 1933) is an American Presbyterian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. She was a professor at Claremont Graduate School before becoming the Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Douglass served as the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1990 to 1997, making her the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches.

  1. ^ Haruko Nawata Ward (2001). Women and the Jesuits in the Christian Century (1549–1650) in Japan (doctoral dissertation). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Theological Seminary. p. 1. ProQuest 276243423.
  2. ^ Paul C. H. Lim (August 2017). "Paul Chang-Ha Lim" (PDF) (curriculum vitae). Vanderbilt University. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 14, 2023.
  3. ^ Berndt Hamm [in German] (2011). Religiosität im späten Mittelalter: Spannungspole, Neuaufbrüche, Normierungen (in German). Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck. p. 36. ISBN 978-3-16-158592-0.