- Sighs, Signs, and Significance: Pentecostal and Wesleyan Explorations of Science and Creation
Professor Thomas Jay Oord
Department of Philosophy and Department of Religion
Northwest Nazarene University Professor Amos Yong, Director of Doctor of Philosophy Program
School of Divinity
Regent University (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
- This project supported a joint meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies in March 2008 at Duke Divinity School. Speakers explored facets of the theology and science dialogue, as well as the Pentecostal and Wesleyan approaches to the theology of creation. Papers will be published in dedicated editions of peer-reviewed journals from each society.
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May 2007 |
$32,000 |
- Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World: A debate, dialogue, and discussion with Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath
Ralph Dederick Veerman, President
- This grant provided partial support for a public debate, moderated by Michael Cromartie, between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath on the value of religion. Hitchens is a journalist and public intellectual, as well as a vocal spokesman for the "new atheism." McGrath is a theologian who has written extensively on religious topics, including the engagement of theology and science.
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October 2007 |
$30,000 |
- John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
Michael Welker, Professor of Theology
Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
- This grant selects and awards annual prizes to the 12 best post-doctoral young scholars globally on the basis of their doctoral dissertations related to the topic of God and spirituality. An international and inter-religious panel of 25 judges evaluate the pirze nominations. While primarily a theological prize, contributions from all academic disciplines and religious traditions are considered.
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March 2006 |
$3,533,000 |
- Stanford Emergence Project: Pursuing Knowledge of God in a Scientific Age
Professor Philip Clayton
(currently at) Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge MA)
- This grant supported initial collaborations for research, publishing, and subsequent grant proposals at Stanford and the University of California Berkeley in the area of emergence and panentheism. Local and international research consultations on emergence laid groundwork for ongoing cross-disciplinary collaboration. Professor Clayton wrote Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2005) during the course of this grant, and co-edited The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006) with Professor Paul Davies.
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July 2002 |
$199,841 |
- Science, Theology, and the Ontological Quest
His Eminence Paul Cardinal Poupard, President
Pontificium consilium De Cultura (Vatican City Italy) Professor Gianfranco Basti, Philosophy of Nature and Science
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical Lateran University [IRAFS] (Vatican City Italy) Monsignor Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda, Head of Section
Pontifical Council for Culture (Vatican City Italy)
- These grant supported Science, Theology, and the Ontological Quest [STOQ], a project of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical universities in Rome. This project allows the Vatican Universities to contribute to the Science and Religion dialogue with more specific attention paid to its ontological and metaphysical implications. Currently, six Pontifical universities are participating: Lateran University; Gregorian University; Regina Apostolorum University; St. Thomas Aquinas University; Salesian University; and Holy Cross University.
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April 2003 |
$1,002,414 |
- Austin Farrer Centenary Conference: The Human Person in God's World
Professor Basil G. Mitchell, Chairman
Austin Farrer Centenary Conference (OXON UK) Dr. Margaret M. Yee, Associate Director
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
University of Oxford (Oxford UK)
- This grant supported a conference commemorating the centenary of the birth of Austin Farrer, distinguished 20th century Oxford philosopher and theologian. The conference will consider the relationship between the scientific and the Christian conceptions of the human person, which Farrer took to be an essential clue to our knowledge of God.
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July 2004 |
$20,051 |
- Science and the Spirit: Pentecostal Perspectives
Professor James K. A. Smith
Department of Philosophy
Director, Seminars in Christian Scholarship
Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI) Professor Amos Yong, Associate Research Professor of Theology
School of Divinity
Regent University (Virginia Beach VA)
- This grant supports a three-year research initiative that will produce scholarship on Pentecostalism and science for use in courses offered at colleges and universities affiliated with the Pentecostal movement worldwide. An RFP competition for small research support grants identified participants for a forthcoming two-week colloquium.
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September 2005 |
$162,078 |
- Does God Matter? An Interpretation of Whitehead's Philosophy as a Contribution to a Theology of God's Agency
Professor Dr. Palmyre M. F. Oomen, Director of Theology and
Science Section
Heyendall Institute
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen The Netherlands) - This
grant helped support the translation of the 1998 book, Doet God ertoe?,
from Dutch to English. Does God Matter?: An Interpretation of
Whitehead's Philosophy as a Contribution to a Theology of God's Agency was
accepted for publication by Peeters Publishers as part of the series Studies
in Philosophical Theology.
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January 2003 |
$12,000 |
- Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science: Mediation Between Eastern Orthodox Theology and Science
Dr. Alexei V. Nesteruk, Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science & Mathematics
University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth UK)
- This project aims to advance research on mediation between Eastern Orthodox theology and contemporary science.
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February 2006 |
$85,274 |
