Prof Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Director, Laudato Si' Research Institute
Oxford University - Campion Hall
United Kingdom
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Biography
Professor Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. She was previously full Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA from 2011-2018 and was the Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Fellow of the John Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values; the Kroc Center for Peace Studies and the Eck Institute for Global Health. She holds an honours degree in natural science from Cambridge University, a doctorate in plant physiology, an honours degree in theology, and a second doctorate in systematic theology from Manchester University. Her research interests are in the engagement of theology and natural science, including specifically ecology, evolution, genetics, animal behaviour and anthropology. Her research has consistently sought to explore theological and ethical aspects of those relationships.
She was Professor in Theology and the Biosciences at the University of Chester from 2000-2011 and Director of the Center for Religion and the Biosciences at the University of Chester from 2002-2011. She has published widely including over thirty papers in internationally recognized scientific journals and over twenty books, either edited or as sole author.
She is joint editor of a new journal launched in 2014 with Mohr Siebeck (Germany) entitled Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences.
She was elected Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment in 2011 and her position will rotate in 2017.
Her most recent books include Wonder and Wisdom: Conversations in Science, Spirituality and Theology (DLT, 2006); Genetics and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2006); Future Perfect: God Medicine and Human Identity ed. with Peter Scott (London:Continuum, 2006); Ecotheology (DLT, 2008); Christ and Evolution (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009); Creaturely Theology ed. with David Clough (London: SCM Press, 2009); Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere, ed. with Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (London, Continuum, 2011); Animals as Religious Subjects, ed. with Rebecca Artinian Kaiser and David Clough (London: T & T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2013); The Wisdom of the Liminal: Human Nature, Evolution and Other Animals (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014); ReImaging the Divine Image: Humans and Other Animals (Pandora Press, 2014); Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred (Ashgate, 2015); Ecology in Jürgen Moltmann's Theology (2nd edn) (Wipf and Stock, 2017), Religion in the Anthropocene, edited with Sigurd Bergmann and Markus Vogt (Wipf and Stock, 2017), Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines: On Care for Our Common Home, edited with Rebecca Artinian Kaiser (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Evolution of Wisdom Volume I: Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Shadow Sophia: The Evolution of Wisdom Volume II (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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Publications
Ecotheology
DLT 2008
Genetics and Christian Ethics,
Cambridge University Press 2006
Wonder and Wisdom: Conversations in Science, Spirituality and Theology,
DLT, 2006. Also published with Templeton Foundation Press (USA) and Novalis (Canada)
Future Perfect? God, Medicine and Human Identity (edited volume)
Continuum/T & T Clark International 2006
Co-authors: Eds: C. Deane-Drummond & Dr Peter Scott,
Teilhard de Chardin on People and Planet (edited volume)
Equinox 2006
The Ethics of Nature,
Blackwells 2004
ReOrdering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics (edited volume)
Lancaster University 2003
Co-authors: Eds: C. Deane-Drummond & Bronislaw Szerszynski,
Brave New World? Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome (edited volume)
Continuum/T & T Clark International 2003
Biology and Theology Today: Exploring the Boundaries,
SCM Press 2001
God, Humanity and the Cosmos; A Textbook in Science and Religion,
T&T Clark 1999. Second edn 2005
Co-authors: C. Southgate, C. Deane-Drummond, P.D. Murray, M.R. Negus, L.Osborn, M. Poole, J. Stewart and F. Watts,
Genetic Engineering for a New Earth? Theology and Ethics of the New Biology,
Grove Ethical Series 2000
Creation Through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology,
T&T Clark 2000
Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for a New Science,
Cassell, 1997. Also available in the U.S.A with Trinity Press International.
Ecology in Jürgen Moltmann's Theology,
Edwin Mellen Press 1997
A Handbook in Ecology and Theology,
SCM Press 1996
Christ and Evolution
Fortress Press 2009
Creaturely Theology
SCM Press 2009
Co-authors: ed. with David Clough
Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere
Continuum 2011
Co-authors: ed. with Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Animals as Religious Subjects
T & T Clark/Bloomsbury 2013
Co-authors: ed. with Rebecca Artinian Kaiser and David Clough
The Wisdom of the Liminal: Human Nature, Evolution and Other Animals
Eerdmans 2014
ReImaging the Divine Image: Humans and Other Animals
Pandora Press 2014
Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred
Ashgate 2015
