Conference speakers
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| Justin Barrett Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford Centre for Anthropology and Mind and lecturer in the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology: How “natural” is natural theology? Insights from the cognitive science of religion |
Simon Conway Morris FRS, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge: Darwin’s compass: evolutionary biology and natural theology. |
Alister McGrath (Convenor) Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University: The theological basis of natural theology. Anthropic phenomena and natural theology. |
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| Jeremy Begbie Associate Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews: Natural theology and the arts. |
Hilary Fraser Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London: Natural Beauty and Natural Theology in Nineteenth Century Writers |
Christopher Rowland Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford and fellow of The Queen's College: Natural Theology and the Christian Bible. |
| John Hedley Brooke formerly Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford Did Paley go beyond Paley? The Historical Development of English Natural Theology |
Peter Harrison Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford: Reading the “Book of Nature” in the Early Modern Period. |
Richard Swinburne FBA, Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford: Natural theology: the current state of the debate within philosophy of religion. |
| Joanna Collicutt lecturer in psychology at Heythrop College, University of London, and convenor of the MA in psychology of religion. The Psychology of Perception and Natural Theology. |
John Haught Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University, Washington: The Challenges of Darwinism for Natural Theology. |
Keith Ward Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, and formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University: The Arthur Peacocke memorial lecture: the future of natural theology (This lecture will be open to the public, and will take place in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford on the evening of Tuesday 24 June). |
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