List of Authors
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Trinh Xuan Thuan
Biography
Trinh Xuan Thuan has been a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1976. He currently teaches a course in astronomy for nonscientists. His primary research involves studying very young dwarf galaxies in the local universe; he recently coauthored a study that identifies what is possibly the youngest known galaxy within this universe. He has written many articles on the synthesis of primordial elements, galaxy formation, and evolution. He is the author of...
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Thomas Torrance
Biography
Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913–2007) was a twentieth century Protestant Christian theologian who served for 27 years as Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, during which time he was a leader in Protestant Christian theology. While he wrote many books and articles advancing his own study of theology, he also translated several hundred theological writings into English from other languages. Torrance edited the...
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Desmond M. Tutu
Biography
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Robert E. Ulanowicz
Biography
Robert E. Ulanowicz is professor emeritus with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland and courtesy professor at the University of Florida. Ulanowicz was awarded the 2007 Ilya Prigogine Medal from the Wessex Institute and the University of Siena for outstanding research in the field of ecological systems. He is author of Growth and Development: Ecosystems Phenomenology and ...
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Lynn Underwood, PhD
Biography
Lynn Underwood, PhD has published widely in areas such as quality of life, cancer, stress, compassionate love, and the understanding of ordinary spiritual experience in a multicultural context. Originally trained in medicine, she holds a PhD in epidemiology and is an elected member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Underwood has developed projects with the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and directed foundation programs. She was...
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Neal Vahle
Biography
Neal Vahle has served as publishing director of Heldref Publications in Washington, DC, and as editor of several periodicals, including World Affairs, Current, New Realities, Re-Source, and Unity Magazine. He holds a PhD in American History from Georgetown University and has taught at The American University, The Catholic University of America, and George Mason University. He is also the author of Open at the Top: The Life...
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J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Biography
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen is Princeton Theological Seminary’s James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science. His areas of academic interest include theology and science and religion and scientific epistemology. Dr. van Huyssteen serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and the Journal of Theology and Science, and is coeditor of The Science and Religion Series (Ashgate Press). He has written or edited numerous books...
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William J. vanden Heuvel
Biography
Editor William J. vanden Heuvel has served as Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as U.S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations. Now counsel to the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, he is also senior advisor to Allen and Company, a New York investment banking firm. A graduate of the Cornell University Law School, Ambassador vanden Heuvel was editor-in-chief of...
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Peggy Veljkovic
Biography
Peggy Veljkovic is the former coordinator for the Laws of Life Essay Contest at the John Templeton Foundation. In addition, Ms. Veljkovic is the author of Teen Ink: What Matters, a book published and distributed by Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval.
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Keith Ward
Biography
Keith Ward is a fellow of the British Academy, the Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Oxford, an ordained priest of the Church of England, and a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He has doctorates of divinity from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He has lectured at the universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, Cambridge, and London, where he was professor of history and philosophy of religion, and written more than twenty...