Professor Nancey Murphy

Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, the Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (philosophy of science) in 1980, and the Th.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (theology) in 1987.

Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell, 1990) won the American Academy of Religion award for excellence. She is author of eight other books including On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (Fortress, 1996; co-authored with George Ellis), and Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford University, 2007; co-authored with Warren Brown).

Her research interests focus on the role of modern and postmodern philosophy in shaping Christian theology; on relations between theology and science; and relations between neuroscience and philosophy of mind.

Books

Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge and Progress (edited volume)
Vatican Observatory Press and Notre Dame Press
Co-authors: Eds: N. Murphy, R.J. Russell and W.R. Stoeger
2008

Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organism, Persons (edited volume)
Oxford University Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy & W. R. Stoeger,
2007

Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will,
Oxford University Press
Co-authors: With W. S. Brown,
2007

Bodies and Souls, Or Spirited Bodies?
Cambridge University Press
2006

Religion and Science: God, Evolution, and the Soul (edited volume)
Pandora Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy & Carl S. Helrich,
2002

Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Vatican Observatory Press and Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences,
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, R. J. Russell, T. C. Meyering, and M. Arbib,
1999

Whatever Happened to the Soul?: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (edited volume)
Fortress Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, W. Brown & H. N. Malony,
1998

Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre (edited volume)
Trinity Press International, 1997; reprinted by University of Notre Dame Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg & Mark Thiessen Nation,

Reconciling Theology and Science: A Radical Reformation Perspective,
Pandora Press
1997

Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics,
Westview Press
1997

One the Moral Nature of the Universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics,
Fortress Press
Co-authors: Written with George F. R. Ellis,
1996

Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism: How Modern and Postmodern Philosophy Set the Theological Agenda,
Trinity Press International
1996

Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican Observatory; distributed by University of Notre Dame Press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Robert J. Russell & Arthur Peacocke,
1995

Theology without Foundations (edited volume)
Abingdon press
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Stanley Hauerwas & Mark Nation
1994

Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion,
Trinity Press International, 1994; reprinted by Wipf and Stock

Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (edited volume)
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican Observatory; distributed by University of Notre Dame Press, 1993
Co-authors: Eds: N.Murphy, Robert J. Russell & C. J. Isham,

Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning,
Cornell University Press
1990