Peacocke, Arthur. “The Sound of Sheer Silence: How Does God Communicate with Humanity?” In Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, eds. Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, and Michael A. Arbib, 215-247. Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory Publications and Berkeley, CA: The Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, 1999.

Russell, Robert John. “A Fresh Exploration of the Cosmic Christ.” Unpublished paper, 1993.

________. “Bodily Resurrection, Eschatology, and Scientific Cosmology: The Mutual Creative Interaction of Christian Theology and Natural Science.” Unpublished paper, August 2001, Heidelberg.

________. “Contemplation: A Scientific Context,” Continuum (December, 1990): 135-153.

________. “Cosmology from Alpha to Omega," Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science (December, 1994): 557-577.

________. Theology and Science: Current Issues and Future Directions. The Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, 2000. (CTNS website www.ctns.org).

________. "Does 'The God Who Acts' Really Act? New Approaches to Divine Action in Light of Science." In Theology Today 54 (1, April 1997): 43-65.

Santmire, Paul. The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1985.

In Science and Religion, optional:

Barbour, Ian G. “Creation and Cosmology.” In Cosmos as Creation : Theology and Science in Consonance, ed. Ted Peters, 115-151. Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1989.

Hefner, Philip. “Nature as God’s Great Project” and “A Theology of the Created Co-Creator.” In The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993.

Peters, Ted. “Cosmos as Creation.” In Cosmos as Creation : Theology and Science in Consonance. Ted Peters, ed., Nashville : Abingdon Press,1989.

Russell, Robert John. “Cosmology, Creation, and Contingency.” In Cosmos as Creation : Theology and Science in Consonance, ed. Ted Peters, 172-209. Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1989.

Santmire, Paul H. “The Future of the Cosmos and the Renewal of the Church's Life with Nature.” In Cosmos as Creation : Theology and Science in Consonance. Ted Peters, ed., Nashville : Abingdon Press,1989.

Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action series by CTNS and the Vatican Observatory. Especially:

Ellis, George F.R. “Ordinary and Extraordinary Divine Action; The Nexus of Interaction.” In Chaos and Complexity, 359-395.

Murphy, Nancey. “Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridan’s Ass and Schrödinger’s Cat.” In Chaos and Complexity, 325-357.

Barbour, Ian. “Five Models of God and Evolution.“ In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 419-442.

Birch, Charles. “Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization, and Divine Action.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 225-248.

Clifford, Anne M. “Darwin’s Revolution in The Origin of Species: A Hermeneutical Study of the Movement from Natural Theology to Natural Selection.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 281-302.

Edwards, Denis. “Original Sin and Saving Grace in Evolutionary Context.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 377-392.

Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Nonreductability of Ethics to Biology.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 463-490.

Peacocke, Arthur. “Biological Evolution – A Positive Theological Appraisal.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 357-376.

Russell, Robert John. “Special Providence and Genetic Mutation: A New Defense of Theistic Evolution.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 191-223.

Tracy, Thomas F. “Evolution, Divine Action,a dn the Problem of Evil.” In Evolutionary and Molecular Biology, 511-530.

Kerr, Fergus. “The Modern Philosophy of Self in Recent Theology.” In Neuroscience and the Person, 23-40.

Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action.” In Neuroscience and the Person, 147-164.

Thomas, Owen. God’s Activity in the World. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983.

In Biblical Studies and Nature, required:

Newsom, Carol A. "The Moral Sense of Nature: Ethics in the Light of God's Speech to Job." In Princeton Seminary Bulletin N.S. 15 (1, 1994): 9-27.

Tucker, Gene M. "Rain on a Land Where No One Lives: The Hebrew Bible on the Environment." In Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1, 1997): 3-17.

In Biblical Studies and Nature, optional:

Newsom, Carol A. "Job." In New International Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, 319-339, 595-632. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Simpkins, Ronald A. Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994.

In Christian Spiritual Discernment:

Delbecq, AndreL., Elizabeth Liebert, John Mostyn, Paul Nutt, and Gordan Walter. “Discernment and Strategic Decision Making.” Unpublished paper, 2002.

Dyckman, Katherine, Mary Garvin, and Elizabeth Liebert. “Grounding in Truth: Principle and Foundation.” In The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering LIberating Possibilities for Women, 85-111. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2001.

Eliade, Mircea, et al., eds. “Religious Experience.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion, 16 vols. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1987.

Endres, John C. and Elizabeth Liebert. “Singing to God in Worship: Psalms of Praise.” In A Retreat with the Psalms: Resources of Personal and Communal Prayer. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2001.

Lane, Beldan C. “Spirituality as the Performance of Desire: Calvin on the World as a Theatre of God’s Glory.” In Spiritus 1.1(2001): 1-30.

Malatesta, Edward. Discernment of Spirits, trans. Innocentia Richards, in Dictionnaire de Spiritualité Ascetique et Mystique, vol. III , cols. 1222-1291 by Jacques Guillet, Gustav Bardy, François Vandenbroucke, Joseph Pegon, and Henri Martin.

Schmitt, Miriam, O.S.B. “Hildegard of Bingen: Veritas, Web of Greening Life-Energy: I.” The American Benedictine Review 50 (3, September, 1999): 253-276.

________. “Hildegard of Bingen: Veritas, Web of Greening Life-Energy: II.” The American Benedictine Review 50 (4, December, 1999): 357-380.

In the Popular Literature, required:

Begley, Sharon. “Searching for the God Within.” In Newsweek January 29, 2001: 59.

________. “Religion and the Brain.” In Newsweek may 7, 2001: 50-57.

In the Popular Literature, optional:

Newberg, Andrew B., Eugene D’Aquili, and Vince Rause. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brainscience and the Biology of Belief. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2001.




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