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Published on: 3/14/2000
Last Visited: 3/9/2001
For nine years , Ms. Albright was executive editor of Zygon : Journal of Religion and Science , and is currently publisher of Bridge Building , the Course Program's newsletter.She serves as Secretary and Treasurer of the Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science ( CASIRAS ) , a corporation that co-sponsors both the journal Zygon and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science in Chicago , where Ms. Albright is an associate.Soon to be president of the American Theological Society , Midwest Region , she writes in the area of neuroscience and theology.Her publications include The Humanizing Brain : Where Religion and Neuroscience Meet , coauthored with James B. Ashbrook ( Pilgrim , 1997 ) , and Beginning with the End : God , Science and Wolfhart Pannenberg , co-edited with Joel Haugen ( Open Court , 1997 ) .
John R. Albright , Ph.D. received his doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has taught physics for more than 30 years at Florida State University in Tallahassee.He is currently Professor of Physics at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond , Indiana.He and his wife , Carol , were co-directors of the Southeast Region for the Science and Religion Course Program at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences with funding from the Templeton Foundation ; for the past year they have performed this function for the Midwest.Dr. Albright's research interests include high-energy particle physics , nonlinear systems , determinism/chance , complexity , and theories based on superlatives–and the relation of all these to theology.His course on the relation between science and religion was one of the earliest to be recognized by the competition sponsored by the Templeton Foundation.