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Course Award Winners 1995-2002

Nearly eight hundred US $10,000 Course Awards were distributed to institutions and professors across the globe over the history of the entire SRC program. Though the program has ended, the community of scholars and the legacy of pedagogical resources that the Course program created continue to influence ongoing dialogues between science and religion. This program was made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Course Award Winners by Year
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CTNS News

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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Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

Over its 35-year history, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) has distinguished itself as a world leader in the field of theology and science. Our continued success depends on the generous support of individuals who share our mission to bridge theology and science, and there is much important work to be done. Each gift you make to the GTU's Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences directly supports this mission and helps ensure that it will continue in the future. CTNS Fund Choices Each of the four funds listed below provides support for essential CTNS programming...
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CTNS/GTU Conference and Celebration; Assessing the Work of Robert John Russell: "God’s Action in Nature’s World: Creative Mutual Interaction from Alpha to Omega" and Celebrating the public Campaign for the Ian G. Barbour Chair in Theology and Science.

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Thursday, December 8th 2016, 1:00pm
Saturday, December 8, 2007, 1-5pm CTNS/GTU Conference and Celebration; Assessing the Work of Robert John Russell: "God’s Action in Nature’s World: Creative Mutual Interaction from Alpha to Omega" and Celebrating the public Campaign for the Ian G. Barbour Chair in Theology and Science. Graduate Theological Union, Richard S. Dinner Board Room, GTU Library For more than twenty-five years, Robert John Russell has been engaged in research and teaching focused on the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences. To celebrate the forthcoming publication of his new book,...
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Outstanding Books in Theology and the Natural Sciences Prize

In 1996, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences created a new award for Outstanding Books in Theology and the Natural Sciences. The Outstanding Books Prize recognized exemplary scholarship in the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences and sought to foster outstanding scholarly investigation of the methodological relations between theology and science. Books were judged using the following criteria: Does the book make a convincing and scholarly case? Does it have real potential for affecting opinion makers and the general public? Will it be an important resource to be...
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SATURN Participants

Principal Investigator: Robert John Russell Participants include Jim Bradley, Gerald Cleaver, George Ellis, Alicia Juarrero, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Rope Kojonen, Joshua Moritz, Ted Peters, Karl Svozil, Robert Ulanowicz, and Kirk Wegter-McNelly. Robert J. Russell is Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He is a leading researcher and spokesperson for the growing international body of theologians and scientists committed to a...
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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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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 Public Forum: Lies, Damned Lies, Science and Theology Bishop Richard Cheetham

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Sunday, November 13th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum: Lies, Damned Lies, Science and Theology Bishop Richard Cheetham Graduate Theological Union Library, Dinner Board Room The popular image of science as providing reliable, useful and objective knowledge, whilst theology only offers speculative and subjective opinion is remarkably widespread and persistent. This remains so despite a large and growing body of academic literature which presents a much more nuanced view. One important understanding is that both science and theology can be seen as saying (albeit in different ways) true things about the way things really are - i...
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Founder

Professor Robert J. Russell is the Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Berkeley. He is the author of Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) and Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: Towards the Mutual Creative Interaction of Theology and Science (Fortress Press, 2008). He has co-edited a multi-volume series of books focused on scientific perspectives on divine action...
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Fifty Years in Science and Religion: Ian G. Barbour and his Legacy

Fifty Years in Science and Religion: Ian G. Barbour and His Legacy Edited by Robert John Russell ISBN: 075464118X (paperback) 0754641171(hardback) Publication Date: 12/23/2004    Fifty Years in Science and Religion brings together nineteen leading scholars in the field to offer an appreciative yet critical assessment of the impact of Barbour's work on science and religion and to point ahead towards future critical areas, goals and tasks that await new research and visionary exploration. This book includes a unique autobiography by Barbour in which for the first time he shares and...
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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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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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Climate Science in Theological Education (CSTE)

Climate Science in Theological Education (CSTE) project, sponsored by Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) Climate Science in Theological Education (CSTE) project “This 3-year project, with initial funding from the David and Carol Myers Foundation, will provide grants for seminaries to meaningfully engage forefront climate science in their curriculum and activities. The goals are to equip current and future faith leaders to lead their communities in addressing climate change and to create an atmosphere in places of worship where climate science is considered relevant,...
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Theology and Science

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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Links

  Links to other science and religion organizations and related newsletters/journals:   AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DOSER) A Science and Policy project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AI and Faith AI and Faith brings the wisdom of the world’s great religions to the discussion around the moral and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Science in Christian Perspective. The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is a fellowship of men and women in science and disciplines that relate to science...
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CTNS Celebration of Dr. Robert Russell's Retirement

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Thursday, May 19th 2022, 5:00pm
Join the Graduate Theological Union in celebrating 40 years of visionary leadership from Dr. Robert Russell, who recently announced his retirement as Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS). A celebration of Dr. Russell will be held on Thursday, May 19, from 5 - 7 pm (PT) in the GTU Boardroom and adjacent Outdoor Terrace. Colleagues, former students, and others will be invited to share their appreciation of Dr. Russell. More information will be forthcoming at gtu.edu. "My 40 years at CTNS have been filled with...
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What Does God Really Do in an Evolutionary Change?: Divine Concurrence and Transformism from the Thomastic Perspective

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Thursday, April 5th 2018, 7:00pm
Neither Aristotle nor Aquinas assumes the reality of the evolution of species. Their systems of thought, however, remain open to the new data, offering an essential contribution to the ongoing research concerning scientific, philosophical, and theological aspects of the theory of evolution. Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas' distinction between primary and secondary, and principal and instrumental causes, to describe theologically "the mechanics" of transformism. Is it right, however, to ascribe all causation in evolution to creatures--acting as secondary causes...
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