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September 2024 Blog

September 2024 Blog

ISSR After More than 20 Years: Where We Came From, and Where We are Going Niels Henrik Gregersen, ISSR President ISSR from 2002 to Today: Three Developments When I was elected as President of ISSR in 2023, I had the feeling of coming home to the fruitful atmosphere of the early days of the society. Much remained the same. There is a strong sense of the overall purpose of the Society as an active learned society, and there is a well-functioning institutional structure as well—even though we can no longer afford to rent property, as we earlier had it in St Edmund’s College in Cambridge. Over the last twenty years, ISSR has been in a process of development through different Executive Committees and Presidents—from John Polkinghorne

By Niels Henrik Gregersen|2024-09-15T17:36:11+01:00September 15th, 2024|Categories: Blog|Tags: acadmic, Arthur Peacocke, Cambridge, grenada, Heidelberg, Holmes Rolston III, Ian Barbour, ISSR, john polkinghorne, Niels Henrik Gregersen, princeton, religion, Science|

December 2022 Blog

Wentzel van Huyssteen (1942-2022) in memoriam Niels Henrik Gregersen, University of Copenhagen The prominent member of ISSR, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, sadly died February 18 this year, a few months before his 80th birthday. At the 2022 Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, the ISSR arranged a session on “The Legacy of J Wentzel van Huyssteen: Commemoration and Critiques” on November 19 with panelists including Danie Veldsman, Nancy Howell, Kirk Wechter-McNelly, Andrew Rick-Miller, and myself. The point of the session was to take stock of van Huyssteen’s work up from his early career to his mature work, epitomized in his Gifford Lectures, Alone in the World? From 2006. The session turned out to be moving by including also personal reflections from the panelists and

By Anthony K Nairn|2022-12-15T22:33:14+00:00December 15th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: AAR, Alone in the World?, American Academy of Religion, Andrew Rick-Miller, Arthur Peacocke, Critical Realism, Danie Veldsman, Dutch Reformed Church, Epistemic Convictions, Ernan McMullin, Free University of Amsterdam, Gifford Lectures, god, Huguenot Colle, Ian Barbour, ISSR, James J. McCord Professor in science and theology, john polkinghorne, Kenneth A. Reynhout, Kirk Wechter-McNelly, Nancy Howell, Niels Henrik Gregersen, philosophy, princeton, Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor, religion, Religious Studies, sciences, South Africa, The Shaping of Rationality: Towards Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science, theology, Theology and the Justification of Faith: Constructing Theories in Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen, University of Port Elizabeth, Wentzel van Huyssteeen, Wolfhart Pannenberg|

November 2022 Blog

John Polkinghorne – a dear academic, theological and personal friend Michael Welker In 1993 the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, under the leadership of Dan Hardy, sponsored a four-year consultation in which an interdisciplinary group of scholars (including the fields of cosmology, physics, biology, chemistry, environmental studies, philosophy, religious studies and theology) moved from an exchange via different disciplinary and individual academic approaches to the dialogue between science and theology. This is where John Polkinghorne and I met and first became intellectual friends and then, in the course of several years, also personal friends. Together we developed international and interdisciplinary consultations and conferences, cooperated in the publication of articles and books, and even wrote one book together. John received the prestigious Von Humboldt Research

By Michael Welker|2022-11-15T22:01:15+00:00November 15th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: alfred north whitehead, bible, Cambridge, christ, england, eschatology, faith, god, john polkinghorne, metaphysics, michael welker, nature, physics, princeton, reality, religion, Science, science and religion, scripture, theology, usa|