Dr Sarah E Maple
Visiting Research Scholar
Dr Sarah E. Maple is a Visiting Research Scholar at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, within the University’s Centre for Theology and the Arts. She is a painter, theologian, and professor whose work emphasizes the intersection of creative bodily expression, the sacred imagination, and the interior life of the artist. Sarah wrote her doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrews’ Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (2017), and read for her MTS at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute. She lectures graduate students in theology and art at both the University of Notre Dame and St Joseph’s Seminary. She is also a Visiting Research Scholar at The William G. Congdon Foundation
Her forthcoming work, The Resurrection of Beauty, is a development of John Paul II’s considerations of the person, body, and artist in conversation with Aquainas’ aesthetics and the life of artist William Congdon.
Select Publications:
The Resurrection of Beauty, St Augustine’s Press (2026); Marriage and the Abode of Love (2026); God is Beauty (2021).
For more information, visit Dr Maple’s personal website or Instagram.