WISDOM IN ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY NATURALISM Karl E. Peters Paper for “Seizing an Alternative: Towards an Ecological Civilization” Claremont, CA June 4-7, 2015 Section VII. Reimagining and Reinventing the Wisdom Traditions—B Track 5. Thinking Independently in the Tradition of Classical Greece We are approaching environmental and human catastrophe. We are in the midst of a Read More…
Wisdom in Ancient and Contemporary Naturalism
Posted by Karl Peters on May 27, 2015
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The Changing Cultural Context of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: co-publisher of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
The Changing Cultural Context of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science: co-publisher of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Karl E. Peters Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science is forty-nine years old, and many of us are anticipating it’s fiftieth anniversary. This essay is a personal, historical reflection on one of Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on July 11, 2014
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Our Human Predicament
Last month, at the invitation of the V.V. Raman, the president of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (www.iras.org), I wrote the following piece on humanity’s predicament. There are many other good pieces on the IRAS website. See http://www.iras.org/predicament.html. Our Human Predicament Karl E. Peters Our human predicament is threefold. We are facing Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on July 6, 2013
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The Concept of God and the Method of Science
My Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1971, showed how one could develop a scientific theology. Following Henry Nelson Wieman, I offered an operational definition of “God” as “creative process.” I then showed how one could develop and test experimentally ideas about the conditions and structure of the creative process, that is ideas about God. I know Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on June 24, 2013
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Dancing in Church
Dancing in Church Why does a 73 year old man start dancing in the aisle of a New England Protestant church during Lent? By himself. Inviting others to join him. My reply is that I was “moved by the Spirit.” The way I understand what happened is in the light of my scientifically informed, religious Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on May 24, 2013
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Science, Spirituality, and Service in an Evolutionary World
Science, Spirituality, and Service in an Evolutionary World Karl E. Peters January 20, 2013 University Unitarian Universalist Society of Central Florida Twentieth Anniversary We are here together this weekend celebrating our twentieth anniversary, celebrating our story, of become the University Unitarian Universalist society on January 19, 1993. Today I want to leave you with two Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on January 23, 2013
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Human Salvation in the Epic of Creation
These power-point slides are from my lecture on November 26, 2012 in the “Epic of Creation Course,” Zygon Center for Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. It is based on my December 2012 article “Human Salvation in an Evolutionary Word: an Exploration in Christian Naturalism,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on November 30, 2012
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Writings
These writings whose years are in red bold-face type are available as pdf files at Wiley-Blackwell Zygon. Downloads are free for members of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), individual subscribers to the journal, or through affiliation with libraries that subscribe to the journal. For others, downloads can be purchased Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on November 7, 2012
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About My Life
I’ve been blessed with the women in my life. My biological mother Lethel Wolter Peters raised and cared for me for thirteen years, even during her multi-year terminal illness. Alice Krautsch Peters became my mother when I was sixteen and was a life-inspiration to me for almost fifty years. My first wife Carol Dzemske Peters Read More…
Posted by Karl Peters on January 19, 2012
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