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G. Tanzella-Nitti
(born 1955) took his university degree in astronomy at the University of
Bologna (1977), and his doctorate in dogmatic theology, at the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross, Rome, (1991). An Italian C.N.R. fellow
(1978-1981), he was appointed astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of
Turin (1981-1985). He is now full professor of fundamental theology at the
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. His fields of interest and
research include theology of revelation, theological and philosophical
understandings of the image of God, the dialogue between scientific
thought/contemporary culture and Christian religion, the role of the
university, and the unity of knowledge. General editor of the Interdisciplinary Dictionary on Religion and
Science (Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede), a two-volume
encyclopaedia published by Urbaniana University Press and Città Nuova, Roma
2002 (and partly published in English on the web, thanks to a grant given by
the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences), he is now the director of
the web site Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede. In April 2002
he received the ESSSAT Communication Prize from the European Society for the
Study of Science and Theology. Among his books are General Catalogue of Radial Velocity of Galaxies (New York: Gordon
and Breach, 1983); Questions in Science
and Religious Belief (Tucson: Pachart, 1992); La teologia, annuncio e dialogo (Roma: Armando, 1996); Mistero trinitario ed economia della grazia
(Roma: Armando, 1997); Passione per la
verità e responsabilità del sapere. Un'idea di università nel magistero di
Giovanni Paolo II (Casale Monferrato: Piemme 1998); Teologia e scienza. Le ragioni di un dialogo (Milano: Paoline,
2003).
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