Dr Kirk Wegter-McNelly

Dona & Marshall Robinson Assistant Professor of Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Union college

Niskayuna, New York, United States

Biography

Kirk Wegter-McNelly (curriculum vitae) is a theologian who studies how cultural developments, especially those related to the sciences, affect religious beliefs and behaviors. He has taught previously at Manhattan College and Boston University. He is currently developing an approach to the study of theology in which religious claims are evaluated from a secular perspective as hypotheses to be investigated alongside those of science. His analysis hinges on the notion that not all hypotheses worth considering are testable.

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Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Protestantism, Ethics, History of Religion, History of Science, Islam, Judaism, Naturalism, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Theology

Science & Technology Interests

Anthropology, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins, Information Technology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology

Publications

The Entangled God: Divine Relationality and Quantum Physics

Routledge 2011

Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists

Routledge 2002
Co-authors: W. Mark Richardson, Robert J. Russell, and Philip Clayton (co-editors)

Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action

Vatican Observatory/Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences 2001
Co-authors: Robert J. Russell, Philip Clayton, and John Polkinghorne (co-editors)