Graduate Theological Union
Director, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Professor of Theology and Science (In-Residence), GTU
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1981

Ph.D., (physics) University of California at Santa Cruz
M.A., M. Div., Pacific School of Religion

Phone: 510/848-8152
E-mail: rrussell@ctns.org

Research Interests

• Methodology in Theology and Science
• Doctrine of Creation and Modern Scientific Cosmology
• Non-Interventionist Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics
• Suffering in Nature / Natural Theodicy
• Resurrection, Eschatology and Big Bang Cosmology

Selected Publications

• Cosmology, Evolution and Resurrection Hope, (Pandora Press, 2006).
• "Quantum Physics and the Theology of Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action," Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Philip Clayton, editor (2006)
• "Science and Spirituality," Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality, Arthur Holder, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)               
• "Natural theodicy in an evolutionary context: the need for an eschatology of new creation," Theodicy and Eschatology, Bruce Barber and David Neville, Task of Theology Today, V (Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum Press; 2005).
• Fifty Years in Science and Religion: Ian G. Barbour and His Legacy," Robert John Russell, ed (Ashgate Publications: 2004)
• "The Contributions of the Natural Sciences for the Academic Discipline of Christian Spirituality," Festschrift in honor of Sandra Schneiders (2004)