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SRCP Books

The Science and Religion Course Program produced a variety of publications. One of the most important is the collection of essays entitled Bridging Science and Religion which was edited by Ted Peters and Gaymon Bennet. This volume models a fruitful interaction between the profound discoveries of the natural sciences and the venerable and living wisdoms of the world's major religions. As a textbook it is an ideal starting point for novices, yet it has much to offer seasoned academics, professionals, and students. Part 1 establishes a working methodology for bridge-building between scientific...
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2019-2020 Russell Family Research Fellowship in Religion and Science

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Thursday, March 5th 2020, 7:00pm
Living Into our Shared Humanity: Exploring the Religious Significance of Astrobiology   Adam Pryor, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas     Playful Encounters of the Third Kind: How Science and Religion Dialog Intersects with Interfaith Advocacy Fellowship Forum with Adam Pryor, Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7pm Richard S. Dinner Board Room Graduate Theological Union (Flora Lamson Hewlett) Library 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California, USA  This event is free and open to the public.   What if We're not Alone: Considering the Significance of Non-...
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Engaging Hypotheticals: Groundwork for the Study of Theology in a Secular Academic Context

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Saturday, September 25th 2021, 1:00pm
Russell Family Fellowship Research Conference Saturday, September 25, 2021, 1pm (PST) on Zoom.  REGISTER HERE In 2015, for the first time ever, scientists announced the detection of gravitational waves spun out into the universe by the merger of two black holes. Numerous detection events have since been recorded, and upgrades continue to increase experimental sensitivity. There is one important class of gravitational waves, however, that still eludes scientists: the so-called primordial gravitational waves likely to have been produced in the earliest moments of our universe. Observation of...
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SSQ Collaborating Speakers

Collaborating SpeakersThis page contains brief biographies of people who were not involved in the SSQ workshops but whose involvement in the field of science and religion has made them valued participants in SSQ public events.Please note: these bios date from the time of the SSQ program. In the time since the program, some of the participants have moved institutions and some have passed away.Imad Ad Din AhmedImad Ad Din Ahmed is astronomer and Professor of Social Change and of Religion and Progress at the John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and at the University of Maryland...
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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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Welcome CTNS Members!

Online Access to Theology and Science      CTNS members are entitled to online access to current and back issues of Theology and Science.    Login to Theology and Science    Need help setting up your account? Please email support@tandfonline.com.     Online Access to the CTNS Bulletin Issues of The CTNS Bulletin, published from 1983-2002, are available as PDF files on a password-protected section of the CTNS website. Search by essay or book review title, author, or volume. Login to The CTNS Bulletin (Click on Member Access) Need a login? Please email ctns-info@gtu.edu to request a...
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Three Breakthroughs in STARS Research: A Two-Day Event Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Religion

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Tuesday, April 23rd 2019, 12:00am
Friday, and Saturday, April 23-24, 2010 Three Breakthroughs in STARS Research: A Two-Day Event Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Religion Are we alone in the universe? How the search for ET can, and should be, ramped up. How complex life evolved by interpreting its environment and how that ability offers humans an openness to its 'environment,' the transcendent. What neuroscience can teach us about human values and their transcendent source. "Humanity stands at the crossroads of destiny. STARS is the most exciting initiative yet on confronting the challenge of who we are and how we...
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2019-2020 Russell Family Research Fellowship in Religion and Science

Playful Encounters of the Third Kind: How Science and Religion Dialog Intersects with Interfaith Advocacy Fellowship Forum, Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7pm 2019-2020 Fellow: Adam Pryor, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas Richard S. Dinner Board Room Graduate Theological Union (Flora Lamson Hewlett) Library 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California, USA  This event is free and open to the public.   What if We're not Alone: Considering the Significance of Non-Intelligent Alien Life for Constructive Christian Theology Annual Russell Family Research Conference ...
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2019-2020 Russell Family Research Fellowship in Religion and Science

Adam Pryor, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas is the 2019-2020 Russell Fellow

The 2019-2020 Russell Family Research Fellow is Adam Pryor, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas   Fellowship Events: Playful Encounters of the Third Kind: How Science and Religion Dialog Intersects with Interfaith Advocacy Fellowship Forum with Dr. Adam Pryor, Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7pm Richard S. Dinner Board Room Graduate Theological Union (Flora Lamson Hewlett) Library 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California, USA  This event is free and open to the public.   What If We're Not Alone: Considering the Significance of Non-Intelligent Alien Life for...
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Theology and Science 18.1 Published

Theology and Science Issue 18, Number 1 (2020) was published in February

Check out the latest issue of Theology and Science. Online Access is available for current members. The editorials are open access to anyone. Volume 18, Number 1 / November 2020 Editorials Leveling the Posthuman Playing Field, by Francesca Ferrando Human Future in Space and Gene Editing: Waiting for Feminist Space Ethics and Feminist Space Philosophy, by Konrad Szocik In Memoriam Mgr. Denis Edwards (1943–2019), by Robert John Russell Articles Toward an Evangelical Evolutionary Theodicy, by Denis O. Lamoureux The Multiverse: What Philosophers and Theologians Get Wrong, by Neil A....
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Surrogate, Partner, or Tool: How Autonomous Should Technology Be?

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Tuesday, September 15th 2020, 5:00pm
Please join us for the first-ever online CTNS Public Forum:   Surrogate, Partner, or Tool:  How Autonomous Should Technology Be? with Dr. Noreen Herzfeld   We have traditionally thought of technology as tools we build and use.  However, the advent of Alexa, autonomous vehicles, autonomous weapons, and other forms of AI makes modern technology more partner or surrogate than tool.  How autonomous do we want our technologies to be?  How will these technologies change or role in the world and our relationships to God and to one another?   Noreen Herzfeld is the Nicholas and Bernice...
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The Spiritual Journey of Homo Sapiens

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Friday, October 9th 2020, 5:00pm
Please join us for an online CTNS Public Forum:   The Spiritual Journey of Homo Sapiens with Dr. Jim Stump     We often talk of our individual spiritual journey -- the highs and the lows that have contributed to my becoming the person I am today. Perhaps we might speak in similar terms about the spiritual journey of our species. According to Christian theology, God intentionally created human beings to be God's image bearers. If that is so, we can see our evolutionary history as a preparation for that calling. Then the challenging times in our species' past might be understood along...
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2020-2021 Townes Fellowship Now Open

2020-2021 Townes Fellowship is Now Accepting Applications 

  CTNS is pleased to announce the 2021 competition for the Charles H. Townes Graduate Student Fellowship in Theology and Science. The purpose of the Townes Fellowship is to publicly recognize and offer modest financial support to doctoral students of the Graduate Theological Union who have demonstrated the clear ability to do highly promising research on issues related to theology and science.  The selection is based on academic excellence and students in any Department of the Graduate Theological Union doctoral program whose research focuses on theology and science are eligible to apply....
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Transhumanism as Contemporary Idolatry: A Judaic Critique

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Wednesday, November 17th 2021, 5:00pm
Transhumanism as Contemporary Idolatry: A Judaic Critique Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 5pm (PST) on Zoom.  REGISTER HERE   Transhumanism is a social and intellectual movement that promotes the use of technoscience to shape the evolution of the human species. Transhumanism calls for the engineering of the human body to enhance physiological and mental capacities, radically expand the duration of human life, and even attain (digital) immortality. Although secular in tone and style, transhumanist discourse is rife with utopian, apocalyptic, and eschatological motifs that invest technoscience...
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Visiting Scholars

Over the years CTNS has been a place where graduate students come to learn about the theology and science dialogue, but the center also attracts visiting scholars who are interested in learning more about the field. Although CTNS does not have the funds to support visiting scholars, we can help scholars navigate the process of obtaining GTU library access, and provide advice on living in the bay area. Visiting scholars in the past have spent anywhere from a few days to an entire semester on campus and have attended courses, spent time researching and writing, and sometimes even giving a...
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Sciences of the Human Person Group

Sciences of the Human Person BiosIn recent years increasing attention has been given to questions of what (if anything) constitutes the uniqueness of the human person in light of contemporary science. This group was staffed by specialists in the various sciences which study or are related to the human person: the neurosciences, quantum physics, primatology, cognitive psychology, computer science and Artificial Intelligence, computational theory, clinical psychology, medicine and consciousness studies, to name a few. Each specialist brought his or her disciplinary training and empirical...
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Computer Science and Information Technology Group

Computer Science and Information Technology Some of the most fascinating questions about the nature of spirituality are raised by the various fields of computer science and information technology (CSIT). The role of intelligent machines and computational models for human thought have already been discussed. But the advent of technology also raises crucial ethical and social questions for society today. The scientists in the CSIT group, specialized as they are in the development and use of these new technologies, discussed the probable effects of future technologies on human social and...
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SSQ/UIP Paris Conference

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France Conference Overview United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France,  The SSQ Paris Conference, “Science and the Quest for Meaning” was a unique event representing a worldwide awakening to the need for integration of the various dimensions of our lives. We are driven to explore the natural world with intellectual precision and rigor; driven to question who we are and what our place in the world might be; and driven to find a moral basis for our actions. The SSQ...
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SSQ/UIP Vatican University Conference

The Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City January 7-10, 2002 Conference Overview The Vatican Conference was organized by IRAFS–International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences of the Philosophy Faculty at the Pontifical Lateran University, under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Holy See, in collaboration with UIP–Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris (France) and SSQ–Science and the Spiritual Quest (USA) in January 2002. This interdisciplinary event brought together scholars on the topic of the scientific and metaphysical bases of mathematics,...
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CTNS Student Showcase

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Thursday, September 28th 2017, 7:00pm
CTNS Student Showcase Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union To kick off the 2017-2018 school year CTNS will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students. Speakers: Austin Eikenberry, Ki Wook Min and Robert Russell (for our recent graduate Hun Cho Yu) Austin Eikenberry, The Temporality of Creation and the Eternality of God The intersection of temporality and eternality has been a fundamental question of Christian theology almost from its earliest inception. Rooted in the ancient Greek...