Anna Carter Florence
Anna Carter Florence holds the Peter Marshall Chair of Homiletics at
Columbia Theological Seminary. Florence joined the seminary faculty in 1998.
Nationally acclaimed as a preacher and lecturer, Florence is the author of
the book Preaching as Testimony (Westminster/John Knox, 2007). In addition,
she served as editor of Inscribing the Text: Recent Sermons and Prayers by
Walter Brueggemann (Fortress, 2004), and she is the author of numerous
articles on preaching and homiletics. She received a B.A. degree from Yale
University and the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton Theological
Seminary. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she served
as associate pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN,
from 1988 to 1993.
