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Courses

  CTNS faculty offer a variety of M.Div., M.A. and Ph.D. level courses through the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). Dr. Robert Russell and Dr. Ted Peters oversee M.Div. and M.A. students and supervise a number of doctoral students currently pursuing their dissertation research in theology and science at the GTU. To register for courses, please visit the Graduate Theological Union webpage.
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CTNS Event

Engaging Hypotheticals: Groundwork for the Study of Theology in a Secular Academic Context

Event Date: 
Saturday, March 20th 2021, 1:00pm
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been postponed due to unforseen circumstances. A new date and time will be chosen in the near future. Thank you.   2021 Russell Research Fellowship in Religion and Science Research Conference Saturday, March 20, 2021, 1pm (PST) on Zoom. Please email Melissa Moritz, mmoritz@gtu.edu, to register. Engaging Hypotheticals: Groundwork for the Study of Theology in a Secular Academic Context  The Annual Russell Family Research Conference The study of religion in the secular academy is dominated by the “religious studies” approach, which situates theological ideas...
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Announcement of Dr. Braden Molhoek as the new CTNS Barbour Chair and Director

I am delighted to announce that Dr. Braden Molhoek will become the new Ian G. Barbour Assistant Professor in Theology, Science, Ethics and Technology and the CTNS Director in the summer, 2022, following my retirement in June. Braden’s appointment by the GTU, following on the recommendations which I offered with input from the CTNS Advisory Board and other sources, marks a landmark expansion of our mission in interdisciplinary research, teaching and public service to explicitly include ethics and technology along with theology and science.  It reflects the four goals of our search process...

January 21, 2022 Dear members and friends of CTNS and the GTU: I am delighted to announce that Dr. Braden Molhoek will become the new Ian G. Barbour Assistant Professor in Theology, Science, Ethics and Technology and the CTNS Director in the summer, 2022, following my retirement in June. Braden’s appointment by the GTU, following on the recommendations which I offered with input from the CTNS Advisory Board and other sources, marks a landmark expansion of our mission in interdisciplinary research, teaching and public service to explicitly include ethics and technology along with theology...
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How Has the Science-Religion Field Changed Over the Last Eight Years? An SSQ Retrospective

by Philip Clayton "SSQ has been an extraordinary program in its global outreach. Every conference has been simultaneously a dialogue between science and religion and a dialogue among major religious traditions. Because the participants respected each other as scientists, they were open to each other’s views without the defensiveness typically found in ecumenical conferences. Because these were such eminent and articulate scientists, they communicated effectively to a wider public through symposia, media coverage, and subsequent publication" –Ian Barbour, Carleton College For eight years,...
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Journal

Begun in 2003, Theology and Science draws its academic strength from the background of over thirty years of CTNS development, the expertise of hundreds of scientists and theologians from around the world who have participated in CTNS research programs, as well as a cadre of more than 40 editors on the Editorial Advisory Board. From physics and cosmology to evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and the environmental sciences, Theology and Science engages scientific discourse in dialogue with both Christian and multi-religious perspectives. With these affiliations, the journal provides a...
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Vatican Observatory and CTNS Collaboration

Collaboration with the Vatican Observatory The Vatican Observatory/CTNS Project: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (VO/CTNS: 1990-2005). Beginning in 1990, the Vatican Observatory and CTNS co-sponsored a series of international research conferences on a variety of topics in “theology and science” that touch in varying ways on the overall theme, “scientific perspectives on divine action.” The series produced six scholarly volumes with contributions from over fifty distinguished scientists, philosophers and theologians. CTNS Founder and Director Robert John Russell served as the...
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Programs

CTNS has created and administered a number of Fellowships, programs and research projects central to our mission of bridging science and religion through research, teaching, and public service.
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Two years into my retirement

Dear CTNS Members and Friends:                                                           Now, two years into my retirement, I am writing you a “letter” to reflect on the background, creation and history of CTNS over the past four decades, to frame the tremendous changes at CTNS these past two years since my retirement, and to look ahead briefly to where my retirement journey will --- hopefully --- take me into vistas of research and reflection in theology and science. As you undoubtedly know, I formally retired as the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science and the Founding...
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Scientific And Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature (SATURN)

Scientific And Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature (SATURN) SATURN was an interdisciplinary research program in theology and science created and administered by CTNS and supported by a $200,000 grant from Calvin College. The purpose of the SATURN program was to study the scientific warrants for and theological implications of randomness, propensities and indeterminism in nature. We chose the acronym SATURN for this research on the “Scientific and Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature” because the rings of the planet Saturn exhibit the kind of self-organization...
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Berkeley Conference Schedule

Times and events are preliminary and subject to change.  We tried to build the schedule around the core questions, with each day focusing on one of the questions. The 12th is predominately about cultural evolution and the future of humanity, transhumanism, and AI. Papers examine the positives and the negatives of emerging technologies on society, culture, and human nature. The 13th is predominately about how AI can influence humans. This includes serving as an adviser spiritually and helping (or hindering) the acquisition of virtue. The 14th is predominantly about AI technology and...