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    Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom.Ted Peters - 1997 - Psychology Press.
    In this book, Ted Peters explores the fallacies of the "gene myth" and presents a resounding array of arguments against this kind of all-encompassing genetic determinism. On the scientific side, he correctly points out that genetic influences on behavior are in most instances relatively modest. Does anyone deny that identical twins are still able to practice individual free will? After dispatching some of the sweepingly deterministic conclusions of the "science" of evolutionary psychology with a particularly effective set of rebuttals, Peters (...)
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  2. Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith.Wolfhart Pannenberg & Ted Peters - 1993
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    Astrotheology: A constructive proposal.Ted Peters - 2014 - Zygon 49 (2):443-457.
    As we envision constructive undertakings in the field of religion and science for the next decade, the emerging agenda of astrotheology is opening up a new theater for enquiry. Astrotheology provides a critical theological response to the field of astrobiology while critically assessing exciting new research on life in our solar system and the discovery of exoplanets. This article proposes four tasks for the astrotheologian: deliberate on (1) the scope of creation: is God's creation Earth-centric or does it include the (...)
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  4. Models of God.Ted Peters - 2007 - Philosophia 35 (3-4):273-288.
    This essay compares and contrasts nine different conceptual models of God: atheism, agnosticism, deism, theism, pantheism, polytheism, henotheism, panentheism, and eschatological panentheism. This essay justifies employment of the model method in theology based on commitments within philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of science, and the theological understanding of divine transcendence. The result is an array of conceptual models of the divine which have reference, but which make indirect rather than literal claims. Of the analyzed models, this essay defends “eschatological panentheism” as the (...)
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  5. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin through Easter Eyes.James Alison, Alistair I. Mcfadyen, Andrew Sung Park, Ted Peters & Solomon Schimmel - 2001 - Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (3):471-501.
    Reviewing works by James Alison, Alistair McFadyen, Andrew Sung Park, Ted Peters, and Solomon Schimmel, the author suggests that the status and function of the discourse/doctrine of sin highlight tensions between theology and ethics in ways that suggest the character, limits, and promise of religious ethics. This literature commends attention to sin-talk because it helps religious ethicists to render more adequately the dynamics of human agency, sociality, and culture and because it raises questions about the nature and task of theology, (...)
     
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    Are we playing God with nanoenhancement?Ted Peters - forthcoming - Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology.
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  7. God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life.Ted Peters - 1993
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    Astrobiology and astrochristology.Ted Peters - 2016 - Zygon 51 (2):480-496.
    Astrochristology, as a subfield within the more comprehensive astrotheology, speculates on the implications of what astrobiology and related space sciences learn about our future space neighbors. Confirmation of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations living on exoplanets will force Christian theologians to decide on two issues. The first issue deals with the question: should Christians expect many incarnations, one for each inhabited exoplanet; or will the single incarnation in terrestrial history suffice? The second issue deals with the question: why is (...)
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    Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics.Ted Peters - 2021 - HTS Theological Studies 77 (3).
    Public theology is conceived in the church, reflected on critically in the academy and addressed to the world for the sake of the world. The development of a theology of nature is included in the public theologian’s list of tasks of nature that is scripturally based and heavily informed by the natural sciences. Astrotheology is one product. Astrotheology engages astrobiology and other space sciences, firstly, by critically exposing the extraterrestrial intelligence myth at the heart of science and secondly, by partnering (...)
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  10. Theologians Testing Transhumanism.Ted Peters - 2015 - Theology and Science 13 (2):130–149.
     
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    Science, theology, and ethics.Ted Peters - 2003 - Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
    Introduction It is exciting to live in revolutionary times. I had the privilege of rinding myself on the firing line of one revolution, the dramatic renewal ...
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    "Playing God" and germline intervention.Ted Peters - 1995 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20 (4):365-386.
    The phrase "playing God" so popular with journalists takes on a serious meaning in the debate over germline genetic intervention. While guarding against the dangers of human pride implied in the phrase "playing God," special attention is given here to the Christian concept of the human being as created in the divine image, the imago dei . Human beings are dubbed "created cocreators." In this light ethical arguments proscribing germline intervention are examined and refuted, leaving the door open for creative (...)
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    Constructing a theology of evolution: Building on John Haught.Ted Peters - 2010 - Zygon 45 (4):921-937.
    The construction of a distinctively Christian “theology of evolution” or “theistic evolution” requires the incorporation of the science of evolutionary biology while building a more comprehensive worldview within which all things are understood in relation to our creating and redeeming God. In the form of theses, this article brings four support pillars to the constructive work: (1) orienting evolutionary history to the God of grace; (2) affirming purpose for nature even if we cannot see purpose in nature; (3) employing the (...)
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    Are we closer to free market eugenics? The crispr controversy.Ted Peters - 2019 - Zygon 54 (1):7-13.
    Might the 2018 birth of two designer babies in China write the opening paragraph for the next chapter in the history of eugenics? The worldwide scientific community has tacitly put a moratorium on human clinical application of CRISPR gene editing, waiting until unknown risks can become known. But this ethical agreement has been breached, and calls are now being heard for more rigorous regulations. Perhaps religious and spiritual leaders can join the bioethical chant: the yellow light of caution is flashing.
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    The Ebullient Transhumanist and the Sober Theologian.Ted Peters - 2019 - Scientia et Fides 7 (2):97-117.
    The worldwide transhumanist movement upgrades technological hopes and expectations to a level of religious fervor. When looking through the eyes of the public theologian, we see in H+ a disguised religion replete with faith in techno-salvation and even immortality. This is unrealistic. Apologetic theologians can offer the wider public a more realistic assessment of technology's potential while providing genuine hope in a future vision based on divine promise.
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  16. God, Life, and the Cosmos. Christian and Islamic Perspectives.Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal & Syed Nomahul Haq - 2005 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (1):187-187.
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    The Nature and Role of Presupposition: An Inquiry into Contemporary Hermeneutics.Ted Peters - 1974 - International Philosophical Quarterly 14 (2):209-222.
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    David Bohm, postmodernism, and the divine.Ted Peters - 1985 - Zygon 20 (2):193-217.
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    Theology and science: Where are we?Ted Peters - 1996 - Zygon 31 (2):323-343.
    Revolutionary developments in both science and theology are moving the relation between the two far beyond the nineteenth‐century “warfare” model. Both scientists and theologians are engaged in a common search for shared understanding. Eight models of interaction are outlined: scientism, scientific imperialism, ecclesiastical authoritarianism, scientific creationism, the two‐language theory, hypothetical consonance, ethical overlap, and New Age spirituality. Developments in hypothetical consonance are explored in the work of various scholars, including Ian Barbour, Philip Clayton, Paul Davies, Willem Drees, Langdon Gilkey, Philip (...)
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  20. (1 other version)Research with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Ethical Considerations.Karen Lebacqz, Michael M. Mendiola, Ted Peters, Ernlé W. D. Young & Laurie Zoloth‐Dorfman - 1999 - Hastings Center Report 29 (2):31-36.
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    Techno-secularism, religion, and the created co-creator.Ted Peters - 2005 - Zygon 40 (4):845-862.
    I take up the challenge posed by John Caiazza (2005) to face down the religiously vacuous ethics of techno‐secularism. Techno‐secularism is not enough for human fulfillment let alone human flowering. Yet, communities of faith based on the Bible have a positive responsibility to employ science and technology toward divinely appointed ends. We should study God's world through science and press technology into the service of transforming our world and our selves in light of our vision of God's promised new creation. (...)
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    Artificial Intelligence versus Agape Love.Ted Peters - 2019 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 24 (2):259-278.
    As Artificial Intelligence researchers attempt to emulate human intelligence and transhumanists work toward superintelligence, philosophers and theologians confront a dilemma: we must either, on the one horn, (1) abandon the view that the defining feature of humanity is rationality and propose an account of spirituality that dissociates it from reason; or, on the other horn, (2) find a way to invalidate the growing faith in a posthuman future shaped by the enhancements of Intelligence Amplification (IA) or the progress of Artificial (...)
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  23. Metaphor and the horizon of the unsaid.Ted Peters - 1978 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38 (3):355-369.
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    Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics.Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green & Ted Peters (eds.) - 2022 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    In this book, the contributors examine how various religious traditions engage with transhumanism and its vision for the future.
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    At the Foot of Babel: Disclosure and Concealment.Ted Peters - 2023 - In Vestrucci Andrea (ed.), Beyond Babel: Religion and Linguistic Pluralism. Springer Verlag. pp. 49-57.
    When it comes to God-language, we must speak symbolically rather than literally. God’s unsearchable mystery requires that we address God only via multi-valent symbols that both connect us with God yet protect God from total disclosure. During the axial period 2500 years ago we learned that symbols resonate at the intersection of the beyond and the intimate, the transcendent and the immanent, the ultimate and the mundane. In Martin Luther’s Theology of the Cross we learned that God can even be (...)
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    Boarding the Transhumanist Train: How Far Should the Christian Ride?Ted Peters - 2019 - In Newton Lee (ed.), The Transhumanism Handbook. Springer Verlag. pp. 795-804.
    The transhumanist train has pulled out of the station and is now racing toward its destination: technoutopia. Via GNR--Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics--the H+ engineer is guiding us toward posthumanity where our descendents will enjoy superintelligence in digital, disembodied, and immortal form. How far will the Christian want to ride this train? I recommend that the Christian board the H+ train and ride the rails of technological progress as far as improved medical therapies, increased longevity, advanced robotics, and other enhancements in (...)
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    Contributions from practical theology and ethics.Ted Peters - 2006 - In Philip Clayton & Zachory Simpson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 372--387.
    Accession Number: ATLA0001712237; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 372-387.; Language(s): English; General Note: Bibliography: p 386-387.; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay.
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    Can we locate our origin in the future? Archonic versus epigenetic creation accounts.Ted Peters - 2022 - HTS Theological Studies 78 (3).
    Myths of origin in archaic culture – including the Hebrew Scriptures – locate reality at the point of origin. The Greek term, αρχη, means both origin and governance. How something originates governs its definition; it was assumed by our ancestors. Hence the term archonic. Until we get to Christian eschatology and the promise of the new creation. In the New Testament, we find that God’s eschatological consummation will retroactively define what has always been. God’s redemption will epigenetically redefine what occurred (...)
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    Eschatology: Eternal Now or Cosmic Future?Ted Peters - 2001 - Zygon 36 (2):349-356.
    Paul Tillich's eternal now is the ground from which all things emerge and perish in each and every moment. A Tillichean eschatology involves the gathering of all things finite into the eternity of the present moment, into God. Salvation is present moment. But is the “eternal now” enough? This essay offers biblical and theological critiques of Tillich's present eschatology and posits an eschatology that combines Tillich's “eternal now” with Wolfhart Pannenberg's “end‐oriented eschatology.” The result is an eschatology that recognizes the (...)
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    Extinction, natural evil, and the cosmic cross.Ted Peters - 2018 - Zygon 53 (3):691-710.
    Did the God of the Bible create a Darwinian world in which violence and suffering (disvalue) are the means by which the good (value) is realized? This is Christopher Southgate's insightful and dramatic formulation of the theodicy problem. In addressing this problem, the Exeter theologian rightly invokes the Theology of the Cross in its second manifestation, that is, we learn from the cross of Jesus Christ that God is present to nonhuman as well as human victims of predation and extinction. (...)
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    Embryonic Persons in the Cloning and Stem Cell Debates.Ted Peters - 2003 - Theology and Science 1 (1):51-77.
    Public policy debates such as we find in the Untied Nations, the Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee, and the US President’s Council on Bioethics reflect behind-the-scenes theological debates. Although religious spokespersons agree nearly universally that human reproductive cloning should be banned; moral ambivalence rises when confronting human embryonic stem cell research. Rather than focus on beneficence (medical benefits), religious bioethicists focus on nonmalificence (embryo protection). The Vatican claim that stem cell research should be banned because it destroys embryos appears at first (...)
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  32. Goo?Ted Peters - 1999 - Zygon 34:195.
     
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  33. (1 other version)Homo Deus or Frankenstein's monster? : Religious transhumanism and its critics.Ted Peters - 2022 - In Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green & Ted Peters (eds.), Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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    Natural Science within Public Christian Philosophy and Public Systematic Theology.Ted Peters - 1970 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 26 (1):13-34.
    Christian philosophy provides the form and systematic theology the substance when the church turns its intellectual face toward the wider public. This united front is vital in the context of a global competition between worldviews, where naturalism in the form of aggressive scientism has declared war on all things religious. Through discourse clarification the philosopher should distinguish between genuine science and the naturalistic reductionism that attempts to co-opt it; and through worldview construction the theologian should then demonstrate how nature viewed (...)
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    Science and Theology: The New Consonance.Ted Peters - 1998 - Routledge.
    In an exciting study that bridges science and religion, physicists think about the connection between physics and faith and biologists discuss evolution, ethics, and the future. Complementing these viewpoints, theologians address these same issues from a religious standpoint. Chapter authors include Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of the laser, Charles Townes, along with Pope John Paul II.
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    Scientific Research and the Christian Faith.Ted Peters - 1991 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 66 (1):75-94.
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    Toward a Galactic Common Good: Space Exploration Ethics.Ted Peters - 2018 - In David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 827-843.
    The field of Astroethics addresses moral and societal issues arising out of speculation regarding terrestrial contact with extraterrestrial life in both its intelligent and non-intelligent forms. This chapter tackles 15 ethical quandaries, 12 of which are associated with space exploration within the solar system plus 3 with exoplanet communication. Within our solar ghetto, scientists expect at best to find only microbial life, leaving intelligent life to exoplanets elsewhere in our galaxy. The intra-solar system quandaries are these: What does planetary protection (...)
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    The Human Genome Project: what questions does it raise for theology and ethics?Ted F. Peters & Robert J. Russell - 1991 - Midwest Medical Ethics: A Publication of the Midwest Bioethics Center 8 (1):12-17.
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    Truth in Editing.Ted Peters - 2003 - Theology and Science 1 (1):5-8.
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  40. The Problem of Symbolic Reference.Ted Peters - 1980 - The Thomist 44 (1):72.
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  41. Will Superintelligence Lead to Spiritual Enhancement?Ted Peters - 2022 - Religions 13 (5):399.
    If we human beings are successful at enhancing our intelligence through technology, will this count as spiritual advance? No. Intelligence alone— whether what we are born with or what is superseded by artificial intelligence or intelligence amplification— has no built-in moral compass. Christian spirituality values love more highly than intelligence, because love orients us toward God, toward the welfare of the neighbor, and toward the common good. Spiritual advance would require orienting our enhanced intelligence toward loving God and neighbor with (...)
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  42. Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy.Octavio Alfonso Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach & Richard Gordon (eds.) - 2021
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    Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine: Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe. By Andrew Davison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 407. $39.99. [REVIEW]Ted Peters - 2023 - Heythrop Journal 64 (6):850-852.
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