Prof Thomas Tracy

Phillips Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

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Professor Thomas F. Tracy is Phillips Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. He received his B.A. from St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. from Yale University, Department of Religious Studies. His research has focused on questions about divine action, providence, and the problem of evil, and he has explored the relation between these classical issues in philosophical theology and contemporary developments in the natural sciences. His many writings include God, Action, and Embodiment and The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations. He has also contributed essays to several volumes in the Vatican Observatory and CTNS series on Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action. His teaching regularly includes a course on science and religion, taught jointly with a colleague in physics.

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