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 SOPHIA: philosophy and theology
Sophia deals with various aspects of religion and science in conversation with philosophy and theology.  The word is Greek meaning “wisdom.”

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"Real Calvinism": A Review of Michael Ruse's Can a Darwinian be a    
A Conversation on Theodicy    
A Critique of the Science in Russell Stannard's "The God Experiment"    
A Dialogue on the Science and Religion Dialogue: William Schweiker and Eric Weislogel    
A Fabulous Evolutionary Defense of Dualism    
A House of Many Mansions: A Materialist Gets Religion    
A modest epistemology    
A Response to Dahms' Phylogeny    
A Review of Emanuel Swedenborg--The Development of His Thought    
A Review of Everybody's Story by Loyal Rue    
A Review of Expanding Humanity's Vision of God    
A Review of Horrendous Evils & The Goodness of God    
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A Review of Mikael Stenmark's Scientism: Science, Ethics    
A Review of Russell Stannard's "The God Experiment"    
All About Eve: Race, Religion, and Science    
Alternative Covenants    
An Ecology of Knowledge    
An Ongoing Adventure with WWJD?:  Review of What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church    
At Home in the Universe while Dancing With the Sacred    
Beyond "God wants...": A Review of The Work of Love: Creation as    
Bodily Resurrection and the Dialectic of Spirit and Matter    
Brain, Mind, Soul, and Spirit—Unified in Personality    
Building Links between Science and Religion in Mexico    
By the Waters of Naturalism, Part 1/4    
By the Waters of Naturalism, Part 2/4    
By the Waters of Naturalism, Part 3/4    
By the Waters of Naturalism, Part 4/4    
Can God Make a Square Circle    
Catholic Metaphysics and the Collapse of the Enlightenment    
Catholic Metaphysics and the Collapse of the Enlightenment Project    
Catholic Metaphysics in the Wake of the Collapse of the Enlightenment    
Chardin's Evolutionary Cosmos: Part 3    
Chardin's Evolutionary Cosmos    
Chardin's Evolutionary Cosmos: Part 2    
Classics Corner: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion    
Concluding Thoughts on Science and Hinduism    
Contextual Methodology in the Science and Religion Dialogue (A Talking Paper)    
Created to be Creators    
Creation and Creativity    
Creation and Evolution    
Creation and Kenotic Love: A Descriptive and Critical Review    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 1    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 2    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 3    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 4    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 5    
Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 6    
Critiquing the Creation of Knowledge in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Course on Death    
Cultural Context Yet Again    
Darwin Wins, Jesus Loses-A Response to Chris Floyd    
Defusing the Neuron Bomb    
Descartes' Triumph    
Disciplinary Realities and Interdisciplinary Prospects    
Divine Action and God of the Gaps    
Does God "Act" in Creation? Part 1/3    
Does God "Act" in Creation? Part 2/3    
Does God "Act" in Creation? Part 3/3    
Does Religion Make Bad Scientists?    
Dynamical Monism and a Reformed Naturalism, Part 1    
Dynamical Monism and a Reformed Naturalism, Part 2    
Dynamical Monism and a Reformed Naturalism, Part 3    
Ecce anthropos-When Nietzsche met Polkinghorne    
Ecotheology as Transdisciplinary Knowledge of Religion    
Education for Collaboration    
Emancipatory Spirituality--A Review of Michael Lerner's Spirit    
'Emergence Theism' as a Pantheistic Thread Within the Traditional Theism: Seeking for a God-World Unity    
Emergence, Supervenience, and Personal Knowledge: A Response to Philip Clayton    
Energy and Emptiness from an Orthodox Perspective    
Epiphanies, Blaise Pascal, and "le pari" (The Wager)    
Essence of Organic Life In Russian Orthodox and Modern Philosophical Tradition: Beyond Functionalism and Elementarism    
ESSSAT Conference: Barcelona, 1-6 April, 2004    
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Evolutionary Theology Comes of Age    
Experiences of Spiritual Transformations in America    
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Theology, by Lawrence Fagg    
Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Philosophical, Religious, and Ethical Considerations    
Feeding the Zest for Life: Spiritual Energy Resources for the Future of Humanity, by Ursula King    
Fides et Ratio    
Fides quaerens intellectum: Reviews of Peacocke & Polkinghorne    
Figuring the Odds in God's Casino—Pascal Revisited    
Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition - Pt 1    
Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition - Pt 2    
Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition - Pt 3    
Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition -Part Four    
From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne's 'Bottom-up' Vision of Science and Theology    
From Science to God    
From Science to God    
From Science to God    
From Science to God 4-5    
Future Visions: Engaging the Scientific and Spiritual Imagination    
Gaps in Scientific & Religious Education, Part 1/2    
Gaps in Scientific & Religious Education, Part 2/2    
Glorious Contingency 1    
Glorious Contingency 2    
Goals and Purpose, External and Intrinsic Cosmological Interpretations    
God and the Unconscious    
God's Action in a World of Chaos, Part 1/3    
God's Action in a World of Chaos, Part 2/3    
God's Action in a World of Chaos, Part 3/3    
God's Kenosis in the Creation and Consummation of the World    
Good and Evil: Reshaping our Moral Universe    
Halacha, Kabbalah, and Filosofia    
Haught's God After Darwin    
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Home Alone    
How the Unconscious Shapes Science    
How to go to Heaven or How the Heavens go? Part 2 of 2    
How to go to Heaven or How the Heavens go? Part 1 of 2    
Human Rights Law, Religion, and Gender    
Humanity and Divinity as Radically Embodied    
Impressions from the Haverford Interpretation Matters Conference    
In ____ We Trust: Science, Religion, and Authority    
In His Steps—A Postmodern Edition:  An Excerpt from What Would Jesus Deconstruct?    
In Praise of Necessity    
In Search of Universal Truth-Science and Religion    
Indic Visions in an Age of Science, V: Epistemology in the Hindu World    
Integral Studies and Practical Consequences    
Intelligent Design Debate and the Rehabilitation of Analogical Knowledge    
Introduction to the Experimental Psychology of Religious    
Judaism and Science    
Kenosis and Nature    
Leeches on the Road to Enlightenment    
Let There Be Life: A Scientific and Poetic Retelling of the    
Levels of Complexity    
Mathematics on Mars Hill    
Meaning through Transdisciplinary Knowledge    
Metaphors and Models: A Review of New Maps for Old    
Mind the Light    
MISTAKE: Applied Evolutionary Epistemology    
Modern Science, Jainism and Quest for Unity by Ela M. Dedhia    
Moment by Moment    
More Sex    
Mundus Mendax    
Nationalism, Terrorism, and Religion: A Bio-Historical Approach    
NOMA    
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Of Christmas Past    
Of Meontic Freedom & Panexperientialism: An Interview with David Ray Griffin    
On Philosophical Quicksand    
On Scientific and Religious Truths    
Pandemonium Tremendum, Part Four    
Pandemonium Tremendum, Part One    
Pandemonium Tremendum, Part Three    
Pandemonium Tremendum, Part Two    
Pathways & Crossroads: Reviews of Books by Peacocke & Barbour    
Peirce, Lamarck and Evolutionary Love    
Perceived Reality: Atoms    
Perceived Reality: Energy    
Perceived Reality: Force    
Perceived Reality: Heat    
Perceived Reality: Light    
Perceived Reality: Motion    
Perceived Reality: Space    
Perceived Reality: Time    
Philosophy and Sex: Not a Happy Couple    
Philosophy: the Bridge between Religion and Science    
Post-Darwinism: The New Synthesis    
Progress in Religion    
Puebla or "The Plumed Serpent of Science and Religion"    
Radical Hermeneutics Matters All the Way Down    
Reader Response to "Reflections on Totalizing"    
Reader Response--A Review of Science in Support of Religion    
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Reading the Mind of the Universe: An Interview with Mariano Artigas    
Reason and Revelation    
Reciprocating Gifts: Truth, Politics and Participation in Process    
Reductionism and Holism: Two Sides of the Perception of Reality    
Reductionism Reconsidered    
Reductionism Reconsidered: A Dialogue between Ursula Goodenough and George Ellis    
Reflections on Key Books and Publications    
Reflections on Totalizing    
Relationality in Science and Religion, Part 1/2    
Relationality in Science and Religion, Part 2/2    
Resources and Problems in Whitehead's Metaphysics    
Review of E.O. Wilson's "Consilience"    
Review of Andrew Porter's By the Waters of Naturalism    
Review of Anthony Massimini's "The New Dance of Christ"    
Review of Clayton's God and Contemporary Science    
Review of David Ray Griffin's Religion and Scientific Naturalism    
Review of Gerald Schoeder's The Hidden Face of God    
Review of Goodenough's: The Sacred Depths of Nature    
Review of Gregerson and van Huyssteen's "Rethinking Theology and Science"    
Review of Guus Labooy's "Freedom and Dispositions," by Neil Spurway    
Review of J. A. Jungerman's World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics    
Review of James E. Huchingson's Pandemonium Tremendum    
Review of John Hitchcock's Healing Our Worldview    
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Review of John Polkinghorne's "The God of Hope and the End of the World"    
Review of Karl Schmitz-Moorman's "Theology of Creation in an Evolutionary World"    
Review of Keith Ward's: "God, Faith & The New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science"    
Review of Ken Wilber's "The Marriage of Sense and Soul"    
Review of Max Jammer's "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology," by Sarojini Henry    
Review of P. H. Gosse's OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the    
Review of Richardson, et. al., Faith in Science    
Review of Russell Stannard's www.Here-I-Am    
Review of Stephen Jay Gould's "Rocks of Ages"    
Review of Thomas Torrance's Theological and Natural Science, by John McKenna    
Review of Ursula Goodenough's "The Sacred Depths of Nature"    
Ruminations on the Ubiquity of Movement    
Science and religion--they're the oddest couple    
Science and the Quest for Cosmic Purpose    
Science and the Spiritual Quest    
Science In Support of Religion, Part 2    
Science without the Enlightenment?    
Science, Religion, Evolution, & Creation--A Phylogeny    
Scientific Method and the Reconstruction of Theology    
Sectarian Religions and Universal Sciences    
Seeds for the Future    
Self-Organizing Systems and Final Causality, by Joseph A. Bracken    
Simple Analogies to Teilhard's Concepts    
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Seeking Hope in the Far Future    
Spirit and Creation    
Spiritism: The Work of Allan Kardec and Its Implications for Spiritual Transformation    
Spiritual Transformation and Non-Violent Action    
Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science    
Statement At The Templeton Prize News Conference    
Strengthening the Walls of Jerusalem    
Ten Reasons for the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion    
The Book of Nature and the God of Science    
The Cost of New Life    
The Created Co-Creator Meets Cyborg    
The End of Education: The Fragmentation of the American University    
The Epistemology of Testimony - Part 1/4    
The Epistemology of Testimony - Part 2/4    
The Fall from Objectivity: How Interpretation Entered into the (Scientific) World...And What It Means for Religion    
The Hermeneutics of the Kingdom of God: John Caputo and the Deconstruction of Christianity    
The Middle Way--A Review of Denis Alexander's Rebuilding the Matrix    
The Mystical Formation of Paul Tillich    
The Nature of Persons and the Emergence of Kenotic Behavior    
The Need for New Metaphysical and Mystical Perspectives in the    
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The Notion of Events and Three Ways of Knowing    
The Problem with Chaos (Theology)    
The Quest for Wholeness    
The Resurrection Body, by Eric Steinhart    
The Varieties of Mystical Experience: Paul Tillich and William James, by David H. Nikkel    
The Varieties of Religious Experience (excerpt)    
The Wonder and Sacredness of Nature's Physical Undercurrent    
Theism, Atheism and Non-Theism in Buddhism    
Thinking Aloud: Planning For a New Course in Philosophy of Religion for 16-17 Year Olds in the UK    
Thomas King Biography    
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To the Relation between Religion and Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century    
To Trip the Light Fantastic: A Review of Karl Peter's    
Toward a Typology of "Spirit" in the Religion and Science Dialogue    
Toward a Unified Science Religion Worldview    
Trinitarian Evolutionist - Part One    
Trinitarian Evolutionist - Part Two.    
UCSB Caps Successful Templeton Series    
Unexpected Truth    
Universal Reason: Science, Religion, and the Foundations of Civil Societies    
Varieties of Design Arguments    
What Calls You, Pilgrim?    
What difference would it make?    
What is Economic Theology?    
What Jesus Did: The Incarnation as a More Radical Hermeneutics    
Whatever Happened to Wisdom?    
When, How, and Why - Logic in Science    
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Why philosophers talk about thermostats    
Why Religion Matters and How Religion Should Matter    
Wisdom and Compassion - Science and Religion    
You Have to Take it With You: The Embodied Nature of the Religious Self    
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