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Philip Clayton is a professor of theology at the Claremont School of Theology and a professor of religion and of philosophy at the Claremont Graduate University. Out of his twin intellectual foci on the interface between science and religion and the history of modernmetaphysics came a study already hailed as a “classic” and a “breakthrough in philosophical theology,” The Problem of God in Modern Thought (2000), a book that sets forth the case for panentheism as the most appropriate model for understanding the relationship between God and the world. Its author, a summa cum laude graduate of Westmont College, received his M.A. at Fuller Theological Seminary and, after further graduate study at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität in Munich, earned a Ph.D. in religious studies and in philosophy at Yale University in 1986. After teaching five years at Williams College, where he was an assistant professor of philosophy, he joined the philosophy faculty of Sonoma State where he became an associate professor in 1994 and a full professor in 1999. Dr. Clayton accepted his present position last year when he also became co-director of Claremont’s Center for Process Studies. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität as well as the visiting Alexander von Humboldt Professor there and a visiting faculty member at Haverford College. In 2001-02, he was guest professor of philosophical theology at the Harvard Divinity School. Founder of the Systematic Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion, he serves on the editorial board of the American Philosophical Quarterly and as co-editor of the New Studies in Constructive Theology Series for Eerdmans. Dr. Clayton, a member of the board of advisors of the John Templeton Foundation, served as the principal investigator of the Science and Spiritual Quest Program, an initiative of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) in Berkeley, California, from 1999 to 2003. He is a recipient of a University Best Professor Award of Sonoma County Chamber of Commerce, a University Merit Award from Sonoma State, a John Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Course Program grant, and a Templeton Foundation grant for research and writing on the constructive engagement of science and religion. His 1997 book, God and Contemporary Science, won a Templeton Foundation Award for the Best Book in Religion and Science. In addition to an earlier technical study of contemporary theories of rationality in the sciences and theology and more than fifty articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited volumes, he is the co-editor of five books. The most recent, In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World, a volume edited with Arthur Peacocke, will be published later this year by Eerdmans. Dr. Clayton is completing two other edited volumes, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science and (with Paul Davies) The Reemergence of Emergence, which are under consideration by Oxford University Press. His new book, The Emergence of the Spirit, will be published by Oxford later this year.
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