Margaret R. Miles

Margaret Ruth Miles (born May 18, 1937) is an American theologian and historian who was president of the American Academy of Religion in 1999 and dean of the Graduate Theological Union from 1996 to 2001. A 1982 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written and edited dozens of books, including Augustine on the Body, Image as Insight (1985), Immaculate and Powerful (1985), Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987), Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1997), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), Carnal Knowing (2006), Desire and Delight (2006), and A Complex Delight (2008).

Biography Margaret Ruth Miles was born on May 18, 1937, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1979, her dissertation was republished as Augustine on the Body as part of the American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series. She also served as HDS' department of theology. In addition, she worked at the American Baptist Seminary of the West as a professor of historical theology. for "a study of visual formulations of Christian theology in the Middle Ages"; this fellowship funded her book Image as Insight. She edited two volumes with Clarissa W. Atkinson and Constance Buchanan: Immaculate and Powerful (1985) and Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987). In 1999, she was president of the American Academy of Religion. She has also released several religion books through Wipf and Stock, including Carnal Knowing (2006) and Desire and Delight (2006).