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Karl E. Peters is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL,〔(Rollins College Faculty )〕 and former adjunct professor of philosophy, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT and adjunct professor of religion and science, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago. He also is the former editor and then co-editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, and is a founder, organizer, and first President of the University Unitarian Universalist Society in central Florida. His scholarly research and teaching focuses on issues in science and religion, including the concept of God and evolution, epistemology in science and religion, world religions and the environment, and religious and philosophical issues in medicine. In 'Spiritual 'Transformations'', Peters writes – ''“Humanity's religions exhibit many different ways of thinking about the sacred. Sometimes it is thought of as many personal spiritual beings that underlie the working of Nature and human life. Sometimes the sacred is thought of as one supreme reality – the God of Western monotheism, or the Tao, in Chinese thought. The sacred can also be identified as "the creativity * in Nature”''.〔''Spiritual Transformations: Science, Religion, and Human Becoming'' - Augsberg Fortress eBooks Account, 2008, ISBN 0-8006-6320-9〕 He references the thinking of Arthur Peacocke who had developed a form of scientific Christian naturalism that stressed the immanence or ever presence of a God in the universe. * 〔Gordon Kaufman, ''In the Beginning...Creativity'' , Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-8006-6093-5〕 In ''Dancing With the Sacred'', Peters proposes that the sacred is the dance of life (a form of god). He develops an understandable naturalistic theism in which the Universe is not governed by a personal supernatural God. This determination is not atheistic, for the concept of the divine is preserved in a system of non-personal processes within the natural world. Nature produces variations that generate new aspects of existence that are creative but without design. His thesis complements the thinking of theologians such as Henry Nelson Wieman and Gordon Kaufman, and natural philosopher Ralph Wendell Burhoe. Peters writes that〔''Dancing With the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God'' - Trinity Press International, 2002, ISBN 1-56338-393-4〕 Peters has been for many years a member and lecturer at the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science where he has been active in the development of Religious Naturalism. He has six times served as co-chair of the annual conference.〔http://www.iras.org/Past_Conferences.html〕 *2014 - Science and Religion in a Globalizing World *2011 - Doing Good, Doing Bad, Doing Nothing: Scientific and Religious Perspectives *2005 - Varieties of Spiritual Transformation: Scientific and Religious Perspectives *1997 - The Evolution of Morality *1992 - Global Ecology and Human Destiny *1986 - Free Will: Is It Possible and Is it Desirable? *1978 - The Future of the Child: Religious and Scientific Perspectives Peters' current focus in on developing a Christian Religious Naturalism. ==Major publications== *''Dancing With the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God'' - Trinity Press International, 2002, ISBN 1-56338-393-4 *''Spiritual Transformations: Science, Religion, and Human Becoming'' - Augsberg Fortress - eBooks Account, 2008, ISBN 0-8006-6320-9 *( Video - Beginning Reflections of One Unitarian Universalist on Cloning and Genetic Technologies ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl E. Peters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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