The Science and Theology Network

Andrew Hansen is program director at Anselm House, a Christian study center at the University of Minnesota. He holds a PhD in modern European intellectual history from the University of Notre Dame.

Alan C. Love is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research concentrates on concepts, methods and reasoning in developmental and evolutionary biology with a special focus on conceptual change, explanatory pluralism, the structure of evolutionary theory, reductionism, the nature of historical science and interdisciplinary epistemology.

Alan Padgett is a philosopher and theologian with a life-long interest in natural science. His is Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary in Minnesota, where he teaches courses in Christian theology and ethics. Author, editor and co-author of twelve books and over 100 academic essays, he is known for his contributions to Christian theology, philosophy of religion, theology and science and systematic theology. A recent work is The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity (co-edited with J. B. Stump, 2012). A work in progress is an edited volume in dialogue form about directions in Christian eco-theology.

Philip Rolnick is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas and serves as Chair of the Science and Theology Network (STN). As the author of many theological books and articles, his major research areas have been: 1) analogy—how words refer to God; 2) what personhood means for Christian faith; 3) the relation of science and Christian theology; and 4) the thought of C. S. Lewis. Philip Rolnick has been the recipient of the Exemplary Teacher Award of Greensboro College, several Templeton Foundation grants, a North Carolina Humanities Scholar and the University Scholars Grant from the University of St. Thomas. He has been a member of Princeton’s Center of Theological Inquiry and Notre Dame’s seminar on Human Distinctiveness.

Walter J. Schultz holds a BA, MA and PhD in Philosophy with doctoral specializations in mathematical logic and economic theory. He studied economics personally with Leonid Hurwicz who later won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. Dr. Schultz has been profoundly influenced by the Christ-centeredness of the 18th century theologian/ philosopher Jonathan Edwards. His work over the last 15 years has been to explore how the philosophy of mathematics and the metaphysics of science can be understood by taking as fundamental the idea that God is acting according to his plans for his purposes in Christ.

Lisanne Winslow is a professor in the department of Biology and Biochemistry with joint appointment in the department of Biblical and Theology Studies at the University of Northwestern – St. Paul. Dr. Winslow has an MS and PhD in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University, and MA in Theology and Religion from United Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Systematic Theology and Divinity from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She conducts research in marine biology using to world oceans to study invertebrate immunity. In her theological work she has formulated a constructive Trinitarian Theology of Nature. Dr. Winslow has extensively used Jonathan Edwards, Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, and Alister McGrath for much of her analyses. She is an ordained Congregationalist minister serving at Mendota Heights UCC.