Marilyn McCord Adams

The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams
Adams in 2006
Born	Marilyn McCord (1943-10-12)October 12, 1943 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 22, 2017(2017-03-22) (aged 73) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Spouse	Robert Merrihew Adams (m. 1966)


Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Episcopal Church (United States) Church of England
Ordained	1987 (deacon · priest)




Academic background
Alma mater	University of Illinois Cornell University Princeton Theological Seminary
Thesis	The Problem of God's Foreknowledge and Free Will in Boethius and William Ockham (1967)
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Philosophy of religion philosophical theology metaphysics medieval philosophy Christology
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles Yale University Christ Church, Oxford
Main interests	Theodicy
Notable works	Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (1999) Christ and Horrors (2006)
Influenced	Christine Helmer

Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943 – March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School from 1998 to 2003 and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009.