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Nancey Murphy is a Christian theologian and philosopher, known for her work on theology and science. She is currently Professor of Christian Philosophy at the Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Career
Murphy received a B.A. in psychology and philosophy at Creighton University in 1973, a Ph.D in the Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980, studying under Paul Feyerabend, and a Doctorate of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 1987.
Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, won a prize from the American Academy of Religion. The Templeton Foundation awarded it the 1999 Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology.[1][2] She is the author of Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics, and the coauthor with George Ellis of On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics. [3] More recently, Dr. Murphy has written a book entitled Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? as part of a book series edited by Iain Torrance called "Current Issues in Theology." In this work, Murphy argues for a Christian version of the metaphysical position known as "physicalism" or "materialism."[4]
Murphy serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. She also serves as an editorial advisor for Theology and Science, Theology Today, and Christianity Today.
Murphy took part in the Skeptics Society's "Origins Conference," held on October 3-4 2008 at the California Institute of Technology, along with Hugh Ross, Victor Stenger, and Leonard Susskind.[5]
Her late husband was James William McClendon Jr., a theologian with Baptist roots.
Books
- 1993. Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801481147
- 1996 (with George Francis Rayner Ellis). On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology & Ethics Augsburg Fortress Publishers. ISBN 0800629833
- 2006. Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521676762
- 2007 (with Warren S. Brown). Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199215391
Notes
- ^ www.meta-library.net
- ^ Nancey Murphy: Intelligence by Design
- ^ Dr. Nancey Murphy
- ^ Murphy, Nancey. Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- ^ "Origins Conference October 3–4, 2008". Skeptics Society. 2008. http://origins.skeptic.com/speakers_Ross.php. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
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