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CTNS Student Showcase

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Thursday, September 28th 2017, 7:00pm
Presentations by Austin Eikenberry on The Temporality of Creation and the Eternality of God, Braden Molhoek on Original Sin, Intergroup Bias, and the Importance of Friendship, and Robert Russell discussing Hun Cho Yu's 2017 GTU dissertation, On the Reason for Christian Hope: Theodicy and the Eschatological Hope of the Christian Faith. Free and open to the public.
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PLTS Founders' Day

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 9:30am
Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 9am-3:30pm PLTS Founders' Day Keynote: Ted Peters and Pamela Gay: "Space Studies and New Theology: God out of the Box" The afternoon panel discussion will address the question: "Why is understanding science important in Christian ministry?" Panelists include: Robert Russell, Lisa Fullam, Daniel Smith and Isai Garcia.  
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Korean Institute for Advance Theological Studies/KSA/CTNS Joint Conference

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Monday, February 8th 2016, 8:00am
Korean Institute for Advance Theological Studies/KSA/CTNS Joint Conference Ted Peters, “Do Atheists Have a Patent on Science?” Robert John Russell, “Does the God Who Acts Really Act?” Koo Dong Yun, “The Ontology of Soul in View of Recent Stem Cell Controversies” Tae Il Bae, “The Concept of Time in Modern Physics and Theology”
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CTNS/KIATS Conference

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Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 12:00am
CTNS/KIATS Conference Robert John Russell, Cosmology and Theology: Humanity's Role in the Universe Ted Peters, The Cloning and Stem Cell Controversies: A Theological Perspective, with response by Tae II Bai Koo-Dong Yoon, Theological Response to Woo Suk Hwang's First Clone of Human Embryo JaeHyun Kim, Summary Report of Korean Seminars and Questions for further discussion
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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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Theology and Science Table of Contents

Volume 22, Issue 1 / February 2024   Editorials Do You Trust Science? by Ted Peters Compassionate AI and the Alignment Problem by Mark Graves, Jane Compson, Ali-Reza Bhojani, Cyrus Olsen & Thomas Arnold   Special Theme: Symposium on Space Exploration, Astrobiology, and the Future of Religion Introduction: The Future of Religion as Humans Expand into Space by Jaimie Gunderson & J. W. Traphagan Why Space is No Problem for Religion … But Time is by Brian Patrick Green What Can We Reasonably Predict Concerning Alien Religion and Ethics? by Kelly C. Smith Astrobiology, a New Chapter in...
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History

Founded as a California non-profit corporation in 1981, the Center is now a program of the Graduate Theological Union, an ecumenical and interfaith consortium of seminaries and centers based in Berkeley, California. Interested individuals may fully participate in the dialog by becoming a member, receiving Theology and Science, the Center’s refereed journal, CTNS E-News, and other benefits.
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CTNS Student Showcase

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 7:00pm
To kick off the 2016-2017 school year the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students. Confirmed Speakers: Alan Weissenbacher, Ph.D. candidate currently finishing his dissertation. His presentation is entitled “Practical Neuroscience for the Pews” Braden Molhoek, 2016 graduate. His presentation is entitled “Original Righteousness Contributes to the Inevitability of Sin?” Robert Russell, presenting the published dissertation of Adam Pryor, 2012 graduate, entitled “The...
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Jewish Environmentalism: Faith, Scholarship, & Activism

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Tuesday, March 7th 2017, 5:00pm
A CJS Event featuring Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, cosponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, in connection with the Russell Family Fellowship Conference. What is Jewish environmentalism? Has the Bible contributed to our current ecological crisis? This lecture will present some of the major aspects of the Jewish environmental movement as well as the opportunities it provides for new modes of Jewish expression. Join us as we explore the distinctive contribution of Jewish environmentalism to the field of religion and ecology, ponder the differences between Jewish and Christian...
CJS | The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish StudiesCTNS | Center for Theology and the Natural SciencesHava Tirosh-Samuelson
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CTNS Student Showcase To kick off the 2015-2016 school year CTNS will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students.

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Saturday, September 17th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Student Showcase To kick off the 2015-2016 school year CTNS will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students. Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Daekyung Jung, “Divine Action and the Origin of Life: Theistic Evolution and Semantic Divine Action” John King, “The One, The Many, and the Philosophy of Science: A Comparison of Trinitarian and Buddhist Epistemologies” Robert Russell, “Untangling the Entangled God: An Appraisal of Kirk Wegter-McNelly’s Book, The Entangled God: Divine...
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Events at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2013 Annual Conference:

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Saturday, November 23rd 2013, 12:00am
Events at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2013 Annual Conference: Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23, 2013 New Challenges in Science and Religion Conference Sponsored by the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) Speakers include Theology and Science Editors Ted Peters, Robert Russell and Joshua Moritz; as well as Philip Clayton, Ron Cole-Turner, Niels Gregersen, David Hogue, Nancy Howell, Ed Larson, Thomas Jay Oord, Michael Spezio, Wentzel van Huyssteen, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, and Jennifer Wiseman.
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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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CTNS Bulletin

As a benefit of membership, CTNS members have access to articles from The CTNS Bulletin, published 1981-2002.  Members may request the access code by writing to ctns-info@gtu.edu.  Once you have the code, please click on the link below to log in.   Member Access
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God and Creation: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology; CTNS 30th Anniversary Conference

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Sunday, December 11th 2016, 1:00pm
God and Creation: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology; CTNS 30th Anniversary Conference Graduate Theological Union Library, Dinner Board Room "God and Creation: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology" has a threefold purpose: (1) To model a new form of interfaith dialogue, one based on a "third party"/ "shared interest", namely science. The participants learn how each faith sees how the other faiths reflect on particular topics in the natural sciences and thereby gain new and unique perspectives on that faith as well as on their own. (2...
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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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"The Human Surprise: The Unexpected Science of our Origins and Why It Matters for Theology," Fellow's Public Forum

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Thursday, March 8th 2018, 7:00pm
2018 March 8-10, 2018, Russell Family Fellowship in Religion and Science with Ron Cole-Turner: New Perspectives from Science on Human Origins Thursday, March 8, 2018, 7pm "The Human Surprise: The Unexpected Science of our Origins and Why It Matters for Theology," Fellow's Public Forum Over the past decade, scientific discoveries have suggested a new and surprising view of the origins of today's human family. The classic "Out of Africa" story, prominent among scientists from the mid-1990s until just recently, held that "modern" Homo sapiens emerged as a distinct species about 200,000...
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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,...