DOCSLIB.ORG

PERSPECTIVES on Science and Christian Faith

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
PERSPECTIVES on Science and Christian Faith PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN FAITHPERSPECTIVES VOLUME 60, NUMBER 1 MARCH 2008 on Science and Christian Faith JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION In this issue … Lessons from the Heavens: On Scripture, Science and Inerrancy A Comparison of Green Chemistry to the Environmental Ethics of the Abrahamic Religions Professional Engineering Ethics and Christian Values: Overlapping Magisteria RATE Responds to the Isaac Essay Review Isaac Replies Intrinsic Radiocarbon? Historically Inaccurate and Seriously Misleading Argument Critiquing the Uncritical Poe Replies Genesis 1–11 in the Light of Its Second Millennial Worldview: A Response to Carol Hill’s Worldview Alternative “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.” Psalm 111:10 VOLUME 60, NUMBER 1 MARCH 2008 (US ISSN 0892-2675) (CPM #40927506) Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Manuscript Guidelines © 2008 by the American Scientific Affiliation Editor The pages of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (PSCF) are open to original, unpublished contributions that interact with science and Christian ARIE LEEGWATER (Calvin College) faith in a manner consistent with scientific and theological integrity. Published 1726 Knollcrest Cir. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 papers do not reflect any official position of the American Scientific Affiliation. [email protected] 1. Submit all manuscripts to: Arie Leegwater, Editor, Calvin College, De Vries Managing Editor Hall, 1726 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4403. E-mail: LYN BERG (American Scientific Affiliation) [email protected]. Submissions are typically acknowledged within 10 days PO Box 668, Ipswich, MA 01938-0668 of their receipt. [email protected] 2. Authors must submit an electronic copy of the manuscript formatted in Book Review Editors Word as an email attachment. Typically 2–3 anonymous reviewers critique REBECCA FLIETSTRA (Point Loma Nazarene Univ.) each manuscript submitted for publication. 3900 Lomaland Dr., San Diego, CA 92106 3. Use endnotes for all references. Each note must have a unique number. [email protected] Follow The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed., sections 15.1 to 15.426). JAMES C. PETERSON (McMaster University Divinity 4. While figures and diagrams may be embedded within the Word text file of the College and Faculty of Health Sciences) manuscript, authors are required to also send them as individual electronic 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 Canada files (JPEG or TIFF format). Figure captions should be provided as a list [email protected] at the end of the manuscript text. Authors are encouraged also to submit a sample of graphic art that can be used to illustrate their manuscript. ARIE LEEGWATER (Calvin College) 1726 Knollcrest Cir. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 ARTICLES are major treatments of a particular subject relating science to a [email protected] Christian position. Such papers should be at least 2,000 words but not more than 6,000 words in length Editorial Board , excluding endnotes. An abstract of 50–150 words is required. Publication for such papers normally takes 9–12 months from the CHARLES C. ADAMS, Dordt College time of acceptance. HESSEL BOUMA III, Calvin College WALTER L. BRADLEY, Baylor University COMMUNICATIONS are brief treatments of a wide range of subjects of interest RAYMOND H. BRAND, The Morton Arboretum to PSCF readers. Communications must not be longer than 2700 words, WARREN S. BROWN, Fuller Graduate School of excluding endnotes. Communications are normally published 6–9 months from Psychology the time of acceptance. JEANNE BUNDENS, Eastern University HARRY COOK, The King’s University College, Canada NEWS & VIEWS are short commentaries on current scientific discoveries or JANEL M. CURRY, Calvin College events, or opinion pieces on science and faith issues. Lengths range from 200 EDWARD B. DAVIS, Messiah College to 1,500 words. Submissions are typically published 3–6 months from the KARL V. EVANS, Lakewood, CO time of acceptance. OWEN GINGERICH, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics BOOK REVIEWS serve to alert the readership to new books that appear JOHN W. HAAS,JR., Gordon College significant or useful and engage these books in critical interaction. Guidelines WALTER R. HEARN, Berkeley, California for book reviewers can be obtained from the incoming book review editors. D. GARETH JONES, University of Otago, New Zealand Note respective subject areas: CALVIN JONGSMA, Dordt College · Rebecca Flietstra ([email protected]): neuroscience, biology, environ- CHRISTOPHER B. KAISER, Western Theological ment, origins, anthropology, and social sciences. Seminary · James C. Peterson GORDON R. LEWTHWAITE, California State ([email protected]): theology, ethics, biblical studies, University, Northridge philosophy, apologetics, bioethics, genetics, and medical education. H. NEWTON MALONY, Fuller Theological Seminary · Arie Leegwater ([email protected]): physical sciences, cosmology, mathe- JOHN A. McINTYRE, Texas A&M University matics, non-bio technologies, engineering, and history of science. SARA MILES, Eastern University The viewpoints expressed in the books reviewed, and in the reviews KEITH B. MILLER, Kansas State University themselves, are those of the authors and reviewers respectively, and do not STANLEY W. MOORE, Pepperdine University reflect an official position of the ASA. GEORGE L. MURPHY, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, OH LETTERS to the Editor concerning PSCF content may be published unless ROBERT C. NEWMAN, Biblical Theological Seminary marked not for publication. Letters submitted for publication must not be JACK C. SWEARENGEN, Santa Rosa, CA longer than 700 words and will be subject to editorial review. Letters are WALTER R. THORSON, Calgary, Alberta, Canada to be submitted as electronic copies. Letters accepted for publication will be PETER VIBERT, Wading River Congregational Church published within 6 months. DAVIS A. YOUNG, Calvin College ADVERTISING is accepted in PSCF, subject to editorial approval. Please ESTHER MARTIN, Copy Editor address inquiries for rates or further information to the Managing Editor. Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith The ASA cannot take responsibility for any orders placed with advertisers (ISSN 0892-2675) is published quarterly for $40 in PSCF. per year by the American Scientific Affiliation, AUTHORIZATION TO PHOTOCOPY MATERIAL for internal, personal, or 55 Market Street, Ipswich, MA 01938-0668. educational classroom use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, Phone: 978-356-5656; Fax: 978-356-4375; is granted by ASA, ISSN: 0892-2675, provided that the appropriate fee is [email protected]; www.asa3.org paid directly to Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), 222 Rosewood Drive, Periodicals postage paid at Ipswich, MA and Danvers, MA 01923 USA for conventional use, or check CCC online at the at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: following address: www.copyright.com/. No registration with CCC is needed: Send address changes to: Perspectives on simply identify the article being copied, the number of copies, and the journal Science and Christian Faith, The American title (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith). For those who wish to Scientific Affiliation, PO Box 668, Ipswich, MA request permission for other kinds of copying or reprinting, kindly write to 01938-0668. the Managing Editor. Editorial Rapprochement between Science and Religion Arie Leegwater ew beginnings are events that do not is either being used to “sacralize” nature N occur ex nihilo. In a sense they entrain or is being employed as a complement to the efforts of the past, both the suc- science in the interpretation and description cesses and the failures, and simultaneously of the “natural” world. As a consequence, What we need they anticipate a pregnant, but unknown, the metaphor of warfare between science future. PSCF has existed for sixty years; and religion would now appear to be dated; is a Christian it has responded to many different needs rather, warfare has been replaced by meta- and addressed a wide variety of concerns. phors of rapprochement or harmony. We tend anthropology Its voice is one that will need continual to invoke what I would call c-words in our refining and updating. Stepping into the descriptions: descriptions move from meta- which shoes of the previous editor, I have already phors of conflict and confrontation to those become aware how delicate the task may of concordance, compatibility, complemen- become: whether, on the one hand, to tarity, convergence, congruence, coherence, allows us become too enamored by the need for mod- and so forth. Many of these ventures in har- eration, attempting not to make any waves, monization and integration can too quickly to go beyond or, on the other hand, to antagonize every- curtail legitimate debate and discussion and one in sight. Clearly there is a fine line to evade the essential character of our work as considering be drawn, but a position that avoids any Christian scientists and professionals. hint of controversy or detects no need for a person as reforming action would not be one that The harmonization strategies in vogue also create a burden, or at least generate I would want to stake out. So at times I will a Christian take the opportunity to speak my mind false impressions for scientists: for all too about matters which I think we should prize many, the word theology sounds like some- in our affiliation and journal. thing that scholars advance in order to give and/or Christian meaning to the otherwise secular What unites us is the Gospel
Load more

Recommended publications
  • News and Notices SCIENCE-SPIRIRTUALITY
    News and Notices SCIENCE‐SPIRIRTUALITY Templeton Prize The winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion is The Revd Canon Dr Arthur Peacocke of Oxford University. As a physical biochemist specialising in biological macromolecules, Dr Peacocke pioneered early research into the structure of DNA, showing that the chains in the molecule are not branched but form a double helix. In 1971, the one‐ time agnostic became an Anglican priest. The only Oxford University Theology faculty member to hold both a Doctor of Science and a Doctor of Divinity degree, Dr Peacocke is a strong proponent of "critical realism," holding that both science and theology aim to depict reality and must be subject to scrutiny, while recognising their creative interaction. Created by global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton in 1972, each year the Templeton Prize acknowledges a living person who has shown extraordinary originality in advancing humanity's understanding of God and the role of spirituality in people's lives. Sir John has sought to honour progress in religion just as the Nobel Prizes recognise advances in economics, medicine, and chemistry. Currently valued at £700,000 sterling, the Prize represents the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual and is always set at a level that exceeds that of the Nobels. Dr Peacocke joins an illustrious group of professional scientists who have won the Templeton Prize: last year's winner, Freeman Dyson, a physicist whose futuristic views have consistently called for the reconciliation of technology and social justice; physicist and theologian Ian Barbour in 1999; astrophysicist Paul Davies in 1995; physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in 1989; and Benedictine monk and professor of astrophysics Stanley Jaki in 1987.
    [Show full text]
  • Kohlhammer, 1965. Pp. Xvi + 393
    BOOK REVIEWS DIE RELIGIONEN IRANS. By Geo Widengren. Die Religionen der Mensch­ heit 14. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1965. Pp. xvi + 393. DM 39 — This is an important book, yet at the same time an understandably con­ troversial one for two reasons: the strong personal views of the author and the difficulty of reaching universally acceptable conclusions because of problems of interpretation inherent in the available sources, especially for the earlier period. At the outset, the reviewer would suggest that this book be read side by side with the equally important work of J. Duchesne-Guille- min, La religion de l'Iran ancien (Paris, 1962), which appeared while Widen- gren's book was still in press. The two scholars cite earlier studies of each other and often indicate disagreement of interpretation on many points. This kind of disagreement is really salutary for the reader; for he is thus re­ peatedly warned that there are numerous serious problems in the investiga­ tion of Persian religion and that, for the present at least, no convincing solution is possible. W.'s book is at once systematic and comprehensive, and it reveals throughout a first-hand knowledge of the original sources He deliberately employs the plural Religionen in his title, because he covers not only pre- Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism, and later modifications of what may be regarded as Persian religion proper in the Parthian and Sassanid periods, but he deals also with Mandaeism, Manichaeism, and the cults of the Sagdians, Sacae, and other East Iranian peoples. He closes his exposition with a treat­ ment of Persian religion and its influence after the Islamic conquest.
    [Show full text]
  • PSCF09-16P155-164Kim New Pic.Indd
    Article Bernard Ramm’s Scientifi c Approach to Theology Andrew Kim Andrew Kim The year 2016, which marks the 75th anniversary of the American Scientifi c Affi liation, also marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bernard L. Ramm (1916–1992), one of the affi liation’s most important fi gures, and one whose infl uence among evangelicals in the area of religion and science has been matched by few others. Much of the historical attention given to Ramm has focused on his scientifi c background and how it infl uenced his biblical hermeneutic and treatment of scientifi c topics. However, through use of hitherto unstudied sources, this article will show how his scientifi c background also conditioned his overarching theological method. By building on ideas rooted in orthodoxy and history, openly accepting new data and evidence into his system, and adjusting his ideas to compensate for changes and developments, Ramm exhibited a scientifi c methodology that undergirded the development, change, and growth of his theology throughout his career. s news of the gravitational in turn, made the recent discovery pos- wave readings at the Laser sible.2 In other words, Einstein’s scientifi c A Interferometer Gravitational- approach not only retained original ideas Wave Observatory (LIGO) was publicly but also left room for reconsideration, announced on February 11, 2016, excite- revision, and review, which allowed for ment rippled through the scientifi c further contribution and development. community. The LIGO data supplied evidence for theories of space-time and Born in the same year that Einstein gave gravitational waves postulated by Albert birth to his gravitational wave theory Einstein in 1916 and confi rmed “Einstein’s was a quiet and unassuming American theory of gravity, the general theory of Baptist theologian named Bernard Ramm relativity, with unprecedented rigor and (1916–1992).
    [Show full text]
  • Mc2 67 Danese Father-Jaki.Pdf
    n. 67 dicembre 2017 STANLEY JAKI E L’EDUCAZIONE SCIENTIFICA di Beniamino Danese* * Laureato in Fisica, è tra i fondatori del sito www.reinventore.it L’opera del grande storico della scienza Stanley Jaki offre preziose indica- zioni per chi è impegnato oggi nell’educazione scientifica. Una rilettura dei suoi testi principali e di alcuni contributi specifici consente di evidenziare cinque punti cruciali: la prospettiva storica, l’insegnamento per esempi, il valore delle parole, il realismo degli oggetti, le radici cristiane della scienza. Alcuni anni fa, quando gli scrissi di essere un fisico che lavorava nella science education, Padre Jaki mi diede un consiglio rias- sunto in una sola riga: «La scienza non è filosofia e la filosofia non è scienza» [1]. È una riga paradossale, che non ha mancato di causare discus- sioni senza fine ogni volta che l’ho difesa con amici e colleghi. Come minimo, non ha mai mancato di «svegliare la mente», che è lo scopo dei paradossi [2]. Padre Jaki infatti aveva una predilezione per questo tipo di frasi brevi e incisive. Così, per esempio, su scienza e religione: «Non osi unire l’uomo, ciò che Dio ha separato». Ma torniamo a scienza e filosofia. Padre Jaki ne ha discusso a più riprese. Ci interessa in questa breve introduzione approfondi- re questa sua frase che costituisce in una certa misura la sintesi del nostro intervento. «Diversamente dalla verità scientifica, sem- pre nitida perché ristretta, la verità filosofica è sempre ampia perché comprensiva, e non importa quanto particolare, e anche Padre Stanley L. Jaki (1924-2009) quanto banale, ciò possa apparire.
    [Show full text]
  • William C. Chittick Chronological List of Publications Books
    1 William C. Chittick Chronological List of Publications Books 1974 The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: An Introduction. Tehran: Aryamehr University Press, 1974, 96 pp. (New edition 2005) Muqaddima bar `irfān-i Mawlawī. Persian translation by Shihāb al-Dīn `Abbāsī. Ganjīna-yi Ma`nawī-yi Mawlānā. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Murwārīd, 1383/2004, pp. 41-119. 1975 Collaboration with Seyyed Hossein Nasr in An Annotated Bibliography of Islamic Science. Vols. 1-2. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1975-78, 432, 317 pp.; Vol. 3, Tehran, 1991; vols. 1 & 2 reprinted Lahore: Suhail Academy, 1985. 1977 Edition of `Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī. Naqd al-nusūs fī sharh naqsh al-fusūs. Persian and Arabic text with critical apparatus, notes, English and Persian introductions, indexes. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977, 648 pp. 1981 A Shi'ite Anthology. Albany: SUNY Press, 1981, 152 pp. http://www.al-islam.org/anthology/index.htm Translation of J. Nurbakhsh (compiler). Sufism [I]: Meaning, Knowledge, and Unity. New York: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1981, 111 pp. 1982 Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi: Divine Flashes (with P.L. Wilson). With introduction and notes. New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality), 1982, 178 pp. Translation of J. Nurbakhsh. Sufism [II]: Fear and Hope, Contraction and Expansion, Gathering and Dispersion, Intoxication and Sobriety, Annihilation and Subsistence. New York: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi, 1982, 126 pp. Translation of `Alī ibn Abī Tālib. Supplications (Du'ā). London: Muhammadi Trust, 1982, 66 pp. 1983 The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983, 433 pp. 2 Russian translation by Marietta Stepaniants and Andrey Smirnov.
    [Show full text]
  • Stanley L. Jaki, O.S.B. Gy#R, Hungary, 17 Aug
    Stanley L. Jaki, O.S.B. Gy#r, Hungary, 17 Aug. 1924 - Madrid, Spain, 7 Apr. 2009 Nomination 5 Sept. 1990 Field Philosophy and History of Science Title Distinguished Professor of Physics at Seton Hall University, South Orange, USA, and Priest of the Benedictine Order Commemoration – Professor Stanley Jaki was a Catholic priest of the Benedictine order. He was born in Hungary in 1924 and his country’s history affected him deeply. He confided in me how traumatized he was by the communists coming to power backed by the Soviet Army. Consequently, his monastic order was a victim of the oppression. After finishing his studies in Rome, he wasn’t allowed to return home and emigrated to the USA. That experience strongly influenced his historian work. The passion of his words and work can be divided into three points. Firstly, Fr Stanley Jaki’s work target was to clarify the relations between the sciences of nature and the Catholic Church. He did it on the epistemological level. He promoted Gödel’s theorem on philosophical interpretation concerning the incomplete formal systems in order to thwart the rationalist philosophy which set science as an absolute knowledge. He did it in physics and cosmology. His books, The Relevence of Physics (1967), and God and the Cosmologists (1980) brought him to receive the Lecomte de Nouy Prize (1970) and The Templeton Prize (1987). And in addition, he was invited to serve as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. The second significant feature of Professor Stanley Jaki’s works was historical. In his writings he presented his wide perspectives about science since its Greek origins.
    [Show full text]
  • Stanley L. Jaki, Osb
    VOLUME 13 NUMBER 1, SEPTEMBER 2009 $5.50 Stanley L. Jaki, OSB August 17, 1924 – April 7, 2009 But thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight. —Wisdom 11:20 Listen Up! Two Chesterton Classics Now Available As Audiobooks. ORTHODOXY Read by Dale Ahlquist (8 Compact Discs) $34.95 THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN A Dramatic Reading by Kevin O’Brien Introductions and Epilogues by Dale Ahlquist (12 Compact Discs) $44.95 Listen to these great books in the car or when you are otherwise paralyzed. Thrill at the Father Brown mysteries as actor Kevin O’Brien brings them to life. Contemplate the depth and mirth of Orthodoxy again and again. ❏ ORTHODOXY QTY: ____ ❏ THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN QTY: ____ + $3.00 Shipping each set TOTAL: __________ NAME A C ADDRESS S 4117 Pebblebrook Circle, CITY/STATE/ZIP Minneapolis, MN 55437 952-831-3096 PHONE [email protected] www.chesterton.org ❏ VISA ❏ MC ❏ AMEX ❏ DISC # (Or include your check/MO) EXP. DATE SIGNATURE listenup_ad.indd 1 8/18/08 12:03:05 PM : TA B L E OF C O N T EN T S : Volume 13 Number 1, September 2009 4 |:TREMENDOUS TRIFLES: 22 |:CONFERENCE REPORT: 5 |:LUNACY & LETTERS: The English Chesterton Society Conference 7 |:EDITORIAL: BY FR. THOMAS LUTZ Old Friends and Old Misunderstandings 25 |:TALES OF THE SHORT BOW: 8 |:STRawS IN THE WIND: The Explorer The Sentimentalist Of Science BY JOHN PETERSON Ballade of Capital Sweethearting 38 |:FEAR OF FILM: BY G.K. CHESTERTON BY JAMES G. BRUEN JR. L’Argent 10 |:ALARMS & DISCURSIONS: 28 |:MANALIVE: REVIEWED BY ART LIVINGSTON An Interview with Peter J.
    [Show full text]
  • ABSTRACT Reclaiming Peace: Evangelical Scientists And
    ABSTRACT Reclaiming Peace: Evangelical Scientists and Evolution After World War II Christopher M. Rios, Ph.D. Advisor: William L. Pitts, Jr., Ph.D. This dissertation argues that during the same period in which antievolutionism became a movement within American evangelicalism, two key groups of evangelical scientists attempted to initiate a countervailing trend. The American Scientific Affiliation was founded in 1941 at the encouragement of William Houghton, president of Moody Bible Institute. The Research Scientists‘ Christian Fellowship was started in London in 1944 as one of the graduate fellowship groups of Inter-Varsity Fellowship. Both organizations were established out of concern for the apparent threat stemming from contemporary science and with a desire to demonstrate the compatibility of Christian faith and science. Yet the assumptions of the respective founders and the context within which the organizations developed were notably different. At the start, the Americans assumed that reconciliation between the Bible and evolution required the latter to be proven untrue. The British never doubted the validity of evolutionary theory and were convinced from the beginning that conflict stemmed not from the teachings of science or the Bible, but from the perspectives and biases with which one approached the issues. Nevertheless, by the mid 1980s these groups became more similar than they were different. As the ASA gradually accepted evolution and developed convictions similar to those of their British counterpart, the RSCF began to experience antievolutionary resistance with greater force. To set the stage for these developments, this study begins with a short introduction to the issues and brief examination of current historiographical trends.
    [Show full text]
  • CV of Dr. Ayesha Imtiaz
    Ayesha Imtiaz, PhD Assistant Professor TTS School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore Formal Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, USA Cell# 00923334520212 Email: [email protected] Education Doctor of Philosophy (2009-2015) School of Biological Sciences (SOBS), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan under the guidance of Dr. Sadaf Naz and Dr. Thomas B. Friedman. Master of Science (2007-2009) Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Research Experience Post doctorate fellow (April 2015 – August 2019) Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Bethesda, MD. I continued my pre-doctorate research of the human deafness gene CDC14A. I developed several mouse and zebrafish models using commercially available IMRC Embryonic Stem cell clones and CRIPR/Cas9 mediated genome editing. I characterized phenotypes of these mice and zebrafish mutants and studied the underlying histopathologies using light and scanning electron microscopy. I conducted a yeast-two-hybrid screen to identify interacting partners of CDC14A in the inner ear. Now, I am in the process of validating interacting partners/ substrates of this protein by immunohistochemistry, 2D gel electrophoresis, and comparative phosho-proteomics (LC/MS). In addition to my CDC14A project, I am also involved in the studies of Triobp, Tprn, Tbc1d24 mouse models and transcriptomics. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis Research (Genetic Studies of Severe Degree of Hearing loss: January 2011- April 2013) Laboratory of Dr. Sadaf Naz, School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Identified and enrolled large consanguineous families.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum Vita and Bibliography
    CURRICULUM VITA AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Personal Name: Wilbert R. Shenk Family: married, Juanita (Brenneman) Shenk, October 10, 1957 children: Suzanne, Maria, Thomas Religious Affiliation Denomination: Mennonite Church Conference: Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference Congregation: Belmont Mennonite Church, Elkhart, Indiana Ordination: Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (1/6/85) Education B.A., Goshen College (1955) M.A., University of Oregon (1964) Ph.D., University of Aberdeen (1978) Work Experience 2005- Senior Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture, SIS, Fuller Theological Seminary 1995-2005 Paul E. Pierson Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California 1995- Adjunct Professor of Missions, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary 1990-1995 Associate Professor of Missions, Director of Mission Training Center, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary 1980-1990 Vice-President, Division of Overseas Ministries, Mennonite Board of Missions 1967-1980 Secretary for Overseas Missions, Mennonite Board of Missions 1965-1967 Assistant Secretary, Overseas Missions, Mennonite Board of Missions, Elkhart, Indiana 1963-1965 Mennonite Central Committee, assistant director of Overseas Services, Akron, Pennsylvania 1955-1959 Mennonite Central Committee, Indonesia (secondary school teacher, agency program director) Special Assignment Lecturer in India (Union Biblical Seminary, Centre for Contemporary Christianity); Korea (Presbyterian Theological Seminary);
    [Show full text]
  • Urdu Literature in Pakistan: a Site for Alternative Visions and Dissent
    christina oesterheld Urdu Literature in Pakistan: A Site for Alternative Visions and Dissent Iqbal’s Idea of a Muslim Homeland—Vision and Reality To a great extent Pakistan owes its existence to the vision of one of the greatest Urdu poets, !All"ma Mu#ammad Iqb"l (1877–1938). Not only had Iqb"l expressed the idea of a separate homeland for South Asian Muslims, he had also formulated his vision of the ideal Muslim state and the ideal Muslim. These ideals are at the core of his poetry in Urdu and Persian. Iqb"l didn’t live to see the creation of the independent state of Pakistan and was thus unable to exert any influence on what became of his vision. Nevertheless, he has been celebrated as Pakistan’s national poet and as the spiritual father of the nation ever since the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution by the All-India Muslim League in 1940. In Fate# Mu#ammad Malik’s words: “In Pakistan Iqb"l is universally quoted, day in and day out from the highest to the lowest. His poetry is recited from the cradle to the corridors of power, from the elementary school to the parliament house” (1999a, 90). Anybody dealing with Pakistan is sooner or later exposed to this official version of Iqb"l. Presumably much less known is the fact that soon afterwards, Pakistani writers and poets started to question the le- gitimacy of this appropriation of Iqb"l by representatives of the Pakistani state, by educational institutions and the official media. Several Urdu po- ets wrote parodies of his famous poems, not to parody Iqb"l’s poetry as such but to highlight the wide gulf between words and deeds, between the proclaimed ideals and Pakistani reality.
    [Show full text]
  • Selected Conference Papers Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology
    Mohammad Hashim Kamali · Osman Bakar Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor Rugayah Hashim Editors Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology Selected Conference Papers Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology Mohammad Hashim Kamali Osman Bakar • Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor Rugayah Hashim Editors Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology Selected Conference Papers Editors Mohammad Hashim Kamali Osman Bakar International Institute Sultan Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Centre of Advanced Islamic Studies for Islamic Studies (SOASCIS) Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Universiti Brunei Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan , Brunei Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor International Institute Rugayah Hashim of Advanced Islamic Studies Research Management Institute Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam, Selangor , Malaysia ISBN 978-981-287-777-2 ISBN 978-981-287-778-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-778-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016932878 Springer Singapore Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication.
    [Show full text]