Keith Ward’s New Website

May 20, 2010

Keith Ward, author of The Big Questions in Science and Religion, now has his own website.

Keith Ward is a fellow of the British Academy, the Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Oxford, an ordained priest of the Church of England, and a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He has doctorates of divinity from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He has lectured at the universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, Cambridge, and London, where he was professor of history and philosophy of religion, and written more than twenty highly acclaimed books. Comparative theology and the interplay between science and faith are two of his main topics of interest.

To learn more about Keith Ward or to view his new website, click here.

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The Victor Mansfield Memorial Speaker Series

July 2, 2009

Vic_MansfieldVic Mansfield was a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. Along with a wide range of science courses, he taught courses focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology. He is an award-winning teacher who published scores of technical articles in science and several dozen interdisciplinary papers connecting physics to Tibetan Buddhism and depth psychology. For nearly four decades, he practiced and studied with spiritual leaders in the U.S., Europe, and India.

On July 10, 2009, the inaugural Victor Mansfield Memorial Speaker Series will take place from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM in the Human Services Building, Ithaca, NY. The goal of the Speaker Series is to honor the memory and further the intellectual work of Vic Mansfield (1941-2008).  Each year the series will host a Western scholar who has enhanced the study of Tibetan Buddhism. This year’s scholar is Dr. B. Alan Wallace, Founder and Director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

The Speaker Series events are free to the public. Donations are welcomed. For more information click here.

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Keith Ward

October 30, 2008

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Next month, Kieth Ward, author of The Big Questions in Science and Religion, will be making the rounds as a Metanexus Institute Senior Fellow. As you can see from the schedule below, they are going to be keeping him quite busy! If you happen to be in the Philadelphia area and you have an interest in religion in our modern society, you should definitely plan to attend some of these free events.

November 12: “How Does Morality Relate to Religion?” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, PA

November 13: “Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete?” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

November 14: “Can the ‘Cruelty and Waste’of Evolution Be Reconciled with Creation by a Good God?” Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA

November 15: “Materialism and Its Discontents” Christ Church Ithan, Villanova, PA

November 16: “Is It Still Possible to Speak of the Soul?” First Unitarian Church, Wilmington, DE  

Click here for complete details or contact Events Coordinator, Kathy Siciliano.

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The Neural Buddhists

May 15, 2008

The Neural Buddhists, a recent New York Times op-ed column by David Brooks, covers an amazing array of Templeton Foundation Press core themes and values. In fact, he may just set a record for “Most TFP Subject Areas Covered in a Single Article.” In the column, Brooks offers a very interesting prediction of where the science & religion dialogue is headed in the coming years, and by our count, he touches on at least five of our major subject areas:

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The Big Questions

March 3, 2008

In the UK, March 7-16 is National Science and Engineering Week, and to commemorate the occasion, The British Association for the Advancement of Science has created a blog inviting readers to submit the biggest, most profound, unanswered questions they can imagine. There are a number of scientists on board to tackle these questions, and the project seems to be proving very popular so far. Questions, coming from curious submitters ranging in age from 5 to 55+, run the gamut from “Does matter have an intrinsic property to self-organise into ever more complex forms including life?” to “Will there ever be a chewing gum that never loses its flavour?” (surprisingly, this man does not appear to be on the panel of experts).

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Design vs. Intelligent Design

February 20, 2008

Thanks to the folks over at Science & Religion Today for steering us towards this article from Science Daily. The article a discusses a session from AAAS in which Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller argues that scientists need to embrace the idea of design and reclaim it from the “intelligent design” movement. 

The article quotes Miller as saying, “There is, indeed, a design to life — an evolutionary design . . . The structures in our bodies have changed over time, as have its functions. Scientists should embrace this concept of ‘design,’and in so doing, claim for science the sense of orderly rationality in nature to which the anti-evolution movement has long appealed.”

This concept of distinguishing between design and intelligent design is one that will be explored in great detail in an upcoming Templeton Foundation Press publication titled Chance or Dance as well as in Miller’s upcoming book with Viking Press, Only a Theory.

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Charles Birch Featured on The Religion Report

January 8, 2008

Charles Birch, author of Science and Soul (March 2008), spoke to Stephen Crittenden for “The Religion Report” on ABC Radio National in Australia on December 19, 2007.

Click here to listen to the broadcast or to read its transcript.

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New Books for Spring 2008

January 3, 2008

Happy New Year! 

Templeton Foundation Press will be publishing eight new books in spring 2008 as well as a new audio book. These new titles include:

TFP will also bring out The New Flatlanders: A Seeker’s Guide to the Theory of Everything in audio book format.

Check back here to learn more about these books in upcoming months.

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