Anne Primavesi

Anne Primavesi, born Anne Sheridan, was an Irish Catholic theologian, with a focus on ecological and feminist theology.

Early life and education

Sheridan was born in Dublin. She graduated from University of London and from Heythrop College, University of London.

From 1990 Primavesi was a founding member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. She presented her ecological ideas at the World Council of Churches, with the 1992 Earth Summit. She wrote a trilogy on James Lovelock's Gaia philosophy. She became a Research Fellow at University of Bristol, where she offered a course in environmental theology. In 1997 she moved to the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2002 she became a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and Westar Institute at Willamette University.
Primavesi traveled widely as a lecturer. She spoke to a student group in Toronto in 1992. She was a featured speaker at a Westar Institute event in California in 2004.

Sheridan married Mark Primavesi. She died in 2019, in her eighties.

"Reviewing and Realising"
"The Witness of the Holy Spirit"
"The Part for the Whole? An Ecofeminist Inquiry"
"The God of Altar and the God of Earth"
"The Recovery of Wisdom: Gaia Theory and Environmental Policy"
"Transforming the Theological Climate in Response to Climate Change: Jesus and the Mystery of Giving"
"What's in a Name? Gaia and the Reality of Being Alive in a Relational World"
"What Does it Mean to be Human Today?"
"Theology and Earth System Science"
"The Preoriginal Gift — And Our Response to It"