Speaker: Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath, the Convenor of the conference, is Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. After studying chemistry at Oxford and gaining his DPhil in molecular biophysics, McGrath studied Christian theology with a view to engaging the relationship between the natural sciences and theology.

His major publications in this field include The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion (Blackwell, 1998), the three-volumed work A Scientific Theology (T&T Clark, 2001-3), and especially The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Blackwell, 2008). He has also written on Richard Dawkins’ distinctive approach to science and religion, especially in his Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life (Blackwells, 2004).

He will give the 2009 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen on the place of anthropic phenomena in natural theology.

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