Dr. Russell Re Manning
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Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Dr Re Manning's research engages four related areas: the intellectual history of natural theology; theologies of culture; philosophy of religion; and topics in science and religion. Current projects include work on contemporary revivals of natural theology, a study of the Boyle Lectures (1692-1732), an analysis of the use of the concept of emergence in Christian theology, and development of a critical edition of the works of Paul Tillich in English.
Dr Re Manning is Lord Gifford Fellow in Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen and Visiting Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is co-convenor of the revived series of Boyle Lectures in Science and Religion, held annually at the church of St Mary-le-Bow and co-chair of the American Academy of Religion Group "Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture." He is past-President of the North American Paul Tillich Society and editor-in-chief of the Collected Works of Paul Tillich in English.
In November 2011, Dr Re Manning presented The Paul Tillich Lecture at Harvard University, with the title: "The Religious Meaning of Culture: Paul Tillich and Beyond."
In June 2012 Dr Re Maning was awarded a grant from the Uses and Abuses of Biology Grant Programme to fund a two-year investigation ("Emergence: From Biology to Theology") into the uses (and abuses) of the conceept of emergence in contemporary theology.
Interests
Religion, Philosophy and History interests: Christianity-Protestantism, History of Religion, History of Science, Naturalism, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
Science and Technology interests: Neuroscience, Psychology
Books
New Varieties of Natural Theology
Oxford University Press
2013
Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
Oxford University Press
2013
Philosophy of Religion: The Essentials
Hodder & Stoughton
2012
Science and Religion in the Twenty First Century. The Boyle Lectures, 2004-2013
SCM Press
Co-authors: Michael Byrne
2013
Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich
Cambridge University Press
2009
Theology at the End of Culture
Peeters Press
2005
30-Second Religion
Ivy Press
2011
30-Second Bible
Ivy Press
2012