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Book Launch & Reception Anticipating Omega by Ted Peters

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Tuesday, April 19th 2016, 5:00pm
Thursday, April 19, 2007, 5pm Book Launch & Reception Anticipating Omega by Ted Peters Anticipating Omega is a work of constructive theology that takes into the theological enterprise the findings of the latest research in the natural sciences. Ted Peters asks how the eschatological vision of God’s ultimate future (omega) fits on a map of reality along with physics, evolutionary biology, genetics, and technical prognostications for a post-human future. He formulates a unique theory providing a retroactive ontology of the future in an attempt to understand today’s world in light of tomorrow’...
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CTNS Public Forum, "Divine Action, Natural Science, and the Problem of Evil" with Thomas Tracy Visiting Scholar from Bates College

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Monday, April 25th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum, "Divine Action, Natural Science, and the Problem of Evil" with Thomas Tracy Visiting Scholar from Bates College “The affirmation that God acts in the world is at the center of the dramatic scriptural narratives that have shaped Jewish and Christian theological reflection for millennia, and it is embedded in the liturgy, preaching, and prayer of the communities that live out these traditions today. Theologians in the modern era, however, have persistently found themselves stumbling over this idea, uncertain about what to make of it. These misgivings have many sources, two...
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CTNS Public Forum, "Challenging Free Will: Emergentism as a Viable Metaphysics", with Dr. James Haag

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Sunday, October 30th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum, "Challenging Free Will: Emergentism as a Viable Metaphysics", with Dr. James Haag Respondent: Terrence Deacon, University of California, Berkeley Dinner Board Room, GTU Library This lecture presents material completed for Dr. Haag’s recent dissertation. Two theses in the dissertation will be elaborated: 1) Emergentism, by occupying the gap between Reductive Physicalism and Substance Dualism, provides for a viable metaphysics, 2) Emergentism, by expanding our notions of causation, provides a space for free will to be both experientially balanced and evidentially accurate...
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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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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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CTNS 25th Anniversary and the 2006 J. K. Russell Research Fellowship

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Wednesday, September 14th 2016, 12:00am
CTNS 25th Anniversary and the 2006 J. K. Russell Research Fellowship J.K. Russell Fellowship with Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters Assessing the Case(s) for Theistic Evolution Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 7pm CTNS Public Forum, Neurology and Spirituality, with Andrew Newberg
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J.K. Russell Fellowship with Niels Henrik Gregersen, Complexity Studies and Theories of Emergence: What Does It All Mean for Religion?

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Wednesday, October 5th 2016, 12:00am
J.K. Russell Fellowship with Niels Henrik Gregersen, Complexity Studies and Theories of Emergence: What Does It All Mean for Religion? The Complexification of Nature: Supplementing the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm Saturday, November 20, 2004, 7-11pm AAR/SBL Joint Reception San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter - Conference Room 8 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature for a reception sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), and the Zygon Center for Religion...
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René Girard, Ph.D., "Violence and the Cross."

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Thursday, February 11th 2016, 7:00pm
René Girard, Ph.D., "Violence and the Cross." Dr. René Girard, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, author of several works on literary criticism, anthropology and Biblical exegesis, presents "Violence and the Cross." In this lecture/discussion, Girard expounds the idea that the salvific value Christians confer upon the Cross prevents them from exploring the anthropological significance of the crucifixion, and because of this, anthropologists are left to this task. Yet these anthropologists conclude that Christianity is only mythology—overlooking the crucial idea that the Bible...
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Michael Ruse, Ph.D., "The Problem of Suffering in Neo-Darwinian Biology and Christian Theology"

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Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 7:00pm
Michael Ruse, Ph.D., "The Problem of Suffering in Neo-Darwinian Biology and Christian Theology" Dr. Michael Ruse from Florida State University presents "The Problem of Suffering in Neo-Darwinian Biology and Christian Theology." There is a common opinion among Darwinians that Darwinism not only makes Christianity redundant, but with the emphasis on a struggle for existence makes Christianity positively false. It is argued that a process that has at its heart an ongoing cruel method of elimination could not possibly be compatible with the good god supposed at the heart of Christianity. Ruse...
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CTNS Forum; San Francisco. John Haught, Ph.D., Georgetown University

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Wednesday, March 9th 2016, 9:30am
CTNS Forum; San Francisco. John Haught, Ph.D., Georgetown University Discussion with Dean Alan Jones of Grace Cathedral. 9:30 am in Gresham Hall at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA. Free and open to the public. Live webcast at www.GraceCathedral.org
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2003-2004 J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science

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Monday, March 21st 2016, 7:00pm
2003-2004 J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science Friday, March 21, 2003, 7:00 pm ET and God: Theological Implications of the Search for Life Beyond Earth?, Russell Fellow Paul Davies Pacific School of Religion Chapel, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA
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The 2002-2003 J. K. Russell Research Conference: Paul Davies Graduate Theological Union Library

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Tuesday, March 22nd 2016, 10:30am
The 2002-2003 J. K. Russell Research Conference: Paul Davies Graduate Theological Union Library Multiverse and Anthropic Fine-Tuning: Philosophical and Theological Implications Scientists have long known that if the laws of physics were only slightly different, then life (at least as we know it) would be impossible. Some theologians have suggested that this biological fine-tuning (often misnamed anthropic fine-tuning) is evidence for a Cosmic Designer. But many scientists prefer to explain the ingeniously bio-friendly nature of the universe as a selection effect, by appealing to the idea...
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Public Forum, William Dembski, "Intelligent Design: Making the Task of Theodicy Impossible?"

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Friday, April 1st 2016, 12:00am
Public Forum, William Dembski, "Intelligent Design: Making the Task of Theodicy Impossible?" According to Edward Oakes, intelligent design makes the task of theodicy impossible. As he sees it, intelligent design is committed to an interventionist account of divine action in which God periodically has to nudge things along when things cannot quite get along by themselves. This, of course, raises the question why God does not intervene to prevent evils before they take root. Oakes is not alone in this concern. Howard Van Till refers to intelligent design as punctuated naturalism: nature does...
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Public Forum, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Ph.D Candidate, "Living in a Tangled World: Quantum Clues for Contemporary Theology"

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Saturday, April 23rd 2016, 12:00am
Public Forum, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Ph.D Candidate, "Living in a Tangled World: Quantum Clues for Contemporary Theology" Kirk Wegter-McNelly has recently completed his doctorate in systematic and philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He also holds a B.A. in physics from Central College and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Among other CTNS projects to which he contributed while at the GTU, Kirk served as co-editor for two CTNS publications: the most recent volume of the CTNS/Vatican Observatory research series, Quantum Mechanics:...
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The Past and Future of the Science-Religion Dialogue: Celebrating the Work of Ian G. Barbour

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Monday, October 3rd 2016, 12:00am
The Past and Future of the Science-Religion Dialogue: Celebrating the Work of Ian G. Barbour   Ian Barbour's pioneering writing in the 1960s and 1970s helped to create the field of science and religion, and his ongoing work over the past forty years has explored almost every aspect of it. On his eightieth birthday we will honor his contribution and look to the future of the dialogue. The conference sessions deal with methodology; God and nature; theology and physics; theology and biology; ethics, technology and the environment; and perspectives from process theology, Roman Catholic...
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