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2019 Russell Fellow Joshua M. Moritz will speak on the Vital Role of Science in Youth Ministry. Part of the 2019 Russell Family Fellowship in Religion and Science.  Registration required. Please contact ctns-info@gtu.edu for more information or to register. Joshua M. Moritz teaches in the Philosophy Department of the University of San Francisco, is Managing Editor of Theology and Science, and serves as the Director of Christian Formation at Berkeley Covenant Church.

CTNS Public Forum with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "Judaism and the Science-and-Religion Dialogue: A Personal Journey " Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union How did a secular, Zionist woman born in a kibbutz in Israel become involved in the field of science and religion? While telling a unique personal story, Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson will reflect on the place of science in Jewish history, the diverse perceptions of science in modern Judaism, and the limited interest of Jews in the science and religion and dialogue. Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson will argue that engaging the field of science and...

Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 7pm CTNS Public Forum with Celia Deane-Drummond Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union This lecture contributes a theological perspective to recent heated public debates in psychology on the rejection of empathy as of key significance in the moral life. In dialogue with philosopher Martha Nussbaum, Professor Deane-Drummond explores recent analysis of the deep history of the evolution of compassion in early hominins. She also argues for the importance of charity, understood in the classic, Thomistic, sense, as holding a central place for mercy and its...

Saturday, November 18, 2017, 7-10pm Science and Religion Hospitality Event at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion For those attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2017 Annual Meeting, please join CTNS, along with Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS, www.zygoncenter.org), the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR-http://www.issr.org.uk/), the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR - www.ibcsr.org), and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS - www.iras.org) for refreshments and a brief presentation. St....

Science and Religion Hospitality Event For those attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2016 Annual Meeting, (registration required) please join CTNS, along with the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR - www.ibcsr.org), Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS, www.zygoncenter.org) and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS - www.iras.org) for refreshments and a brief presentation.   Live Oak Room, Hill Country Level, Hyatt Regency San Antonio, 123 Losoya Street, San Antonio, TX

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...

CTNS Public Forum with Oliver Putz, God’s Self-Communication in an Evolving World: Evolution, Self and Transcendental Being A fundamental assumption of traditional Judeo-Christian anthropology is that humans alone are capable of knowing and loving God as both, their whence and wither. While all of creation is intimately related to a wholly transcendent and immanent divine, only humans are aware of this relationship and can respond to it appropriately. The present paper challenges this anthropocentric view on the basis of both transcendental theological anthropology and insights from the...

The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology (with references to Swedenborg and his work Other Planets), with David Dunér Public Lecture Co-Sponsored by The Swedenborgian House of Studies Free and open to the public PSR Chapel, 1798 Scenic Drive, Berkeley CA 94709   Why are historical and philosophical contexts important for the understanding of astrobiology? How has the field developed and what fundamental problems does it face in the 21st Century? How can the writing of a 17th century Swedish scientist and visionary help put this conversation in a wider context? Come join us for the...