Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Dr Jane McLarty is a Fellow of Wolfson College and taught for many years in the collegiate University (New Testament Greek for the Faculty of Divinity, and New Testament theology for the Colleges and for the Theological Federation). She now lives in Norfolk and is an independent scholar.
Jane regularly runs weekend courses for ICE on New Testament texts. She has published a book based on her PhD dissertation, ‘Thinking with Thecla: Narrative, Emotion and Identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla’ (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2018) and has written on the subject of early Christian martyrdom.
When teaching, Jane sees her role as facilitating class participation and discussion, with sensitivity towards the various positions - faith, agnosticism or atheism - in which participants may stand, so that they all feel that they are free to contribute while respecting the views of others. She is particularly interested in enabling adult learners to form an overview of an entire Christian text, tracing themes and theology throughout the whole of a narrative. This is especially rewarding with adult learners, who may have encountered these texts in a fairly atomistic way and can then see how the knowledge that they have fits within the 'big picture'.
Christian martyrdom: the theology and narrative representation of martyrdom in the early church, particularly the first three centuries.
Emotion and narrative in early Christianity: the way in which narrative is constructed both to evoke and display emotion, particularly in extra-canonical literature (such as the Apocryphal Acts).
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of British New Testament Conference
