Philip Hefner | Academic Influence

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Philip Hefner

Religious Studies

#1104

World Rank

#2048

Historical Rank

#469

USA Rank

Theology

#591

World Rank

#1214

Historical Rank

#230

USA Rank

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Philip Hefner's Degrees

PhD Theology University of Chicago
Masters Theology University of Chicago
Bachelors Philosophy Concordia Senior College

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According to Wikipedia, Philip Hefner is a professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Academic career His research career has focused on the interaction of religion and science, for which he is most well known. Hefner has held several dozen visiting teaching and lecturing appointments at seminaries, colleges, and universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and has taught in numerous Lutheran seminaries in America.

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The human factor : evolution, culture, and religion (1993) (128)
Technology and Human Becoming (2003) (48)
The Animal that Aspires to be an Angel: The Challenge of Transhumanism (2009) (25)
THEOLOGY'S TRUTH AND SCIENTIFIC FORMULATION (1988) (17)
The Spiritual Task of Religion in Culture: An Evolutionary Perspective (1998) (16)
The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up. By William Grassie. (2010) (14)
The Science--Religion Relation: Controversy, Convergence, and Search for Meaning (1997) (13)
IS/OUGHT: A RISKY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE (1980) (10)
MYTH AND MORALITY: THE LOVE COMMAND (1991) (10)
EMBODIED SCIENCE: RECENTERING RELIGION-AND-SCIENCE (2010) (9)
RALPH BURHOE: RECONSIDERING THE MAN AND HIS VISION OF YOKING RELIGION AND SCIENCE (2014) (9)
THE RELOCATION OF THE GOD-QUESTION (1970) (8)
THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PANNENBERG'S THEOGICAL THINKING (1989) (8)
Theological Methodology and St. Irenaeus (1964) (8)
How Science Is a Resource and a Challenge for Religion: Perspective of a Theologian (2002) (8)
Religion in the Context of Culture, Theology, and Global Ethics (2003) (8)
DISCERNING THE VOICE OF ZYGON: IDENTITY AND ISSUES (2010) (8)
When worlds converge: what science and religion tell us about the story of the universe and our place in it (2002) (7)
RELIGION AND SCIENCE‐TWO WAY TRAFFIC? (2006) (6)
Can the Created Co-Creator Be Lutheran? A Response to Svend Andersen (2005) (6)
GOD AND CHAOS: THE DEMIURGE VERSUS THE UNGRUND (1984) (6)
Pannenberg's Fundamental Challenges to Theology and Science (2001) (6)
SOCIOBIOLOGY, ETHICS, AND THEOLOGY (1984) (5)
Biocultural Evolution and the Created Co-Creator (2019) (5)
A FULLER CONCEPT OF EVOLUTION—BIG BANG TO SPIRIT (2012) (5)
Is Theodicy a Question of Power? (1979) (4)
TOWARD A NEW DOCTRINE OF MAN: THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND NATURE (1967) (4)
THE EVOLUTIONARY EPIC (2009) (4)
SCIENCE-AND-RELIGION AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING (1996) (4)
TO WHAT EXTENT CAN SCIENCE REPLACE METAPHYSICS? REFLECTING WITH RALPH WENDELL BURHOE ON THE “LORD OF HISTORY” (1977) (4)
The Cultural Significance of Jesus' Death as Sacrifice (1980) (4)
Evolution: Life in the context of the energies of God 1 (2007) (3)
NATURE, GOD'S GREAT PROJECT (1992) (3)
ENTRUSTING THE LIFE THAT HAS EVOLVED: A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL RUSE'S RUSE (1994) (3)
HUMAN BEING: QUESTIONING AND BEING QUESTIONED (2004) (3)
RELIGION AND SCIENCE: SEPARATENESS OR CO‐INHERENCE? (2007) (3)
RELIGION‐AND‐SCIENCE, THE THIRD COMMUNITY (2008) (3)
Concluding Dialogue: Challenging the Past, Grasping the Future (2004) (3)
GENETIC FRONTIERS: CHALLENGES FOR HUMANITY AND OUR RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (2007) (3)
SURVIVAL AS A HUMAN VALUE (1980) (3)
The Role of Church History in The Theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1964) (3)
Defining America;: A Christian critique of the American dream, (1974) (2)
33. Religion-and-Science (2006) (2)
BROAD EXPERIENCE? GREAT AUDIENCE? (2007) (2)
The Concreteness of God's Kingdom: A Problem for the Christian Life (1971) (2)
CAN NATURE TRULY BE OUR FRIEND (1994) (2)
Science and the Religions: Introduction to the Symposium (2002) (2)
Determinism, freedom, and moral failure. (1994) (2)
The Spiritual Task of Religion in Culture. (1998) (2)
Theology and Science: Engaging the Richness of Experience (2003) (2)
PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL OR DISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (2009) (2)
Book Review:God as Spirit: The Bampton Lectures, 1976 G. W. H. Lampe (1979) (2)
A symposium—global ethics on hiv/aids: Perspectives from the religions and the sciences (2003) (2)
Science and the masks of god : An interpretation of Langdon Gilkey's thought (2007) (1)
Spiritual Transformation and Nonviolent Action: Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr (2004) (1)
THE GENETIC RECOMBINATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION (2010) (1)
John F. Haught in search of a God for evolution: Paul Tillich and Pierre teilhard de chardin Edward L. Schoen clocks, God, and scientific realism Michael Ruse Robert Boyle and the machine metaphor human meaning in a technological culture (2002) (1)
THEORY AND PRACTICE: NEURAL BUDDHISM, ETHICS, AND CULTURAL CAPTIVITY (2008) (1)
The Spiritual Challenge of Our Past (2015) (1)
Life in Religion-and-Science (2015) (1)
RELIGION‐AND‐SCIENCE: NEVER ALONE, ALWAYS IN A CROWD (2008) (1)
Religion‐and‐Science (2008) (1)
Arthur Peacocke: A compleat man (2007) (1)
Tomorrow's Child: Imagination, Creativity, and the Rebirth of Culture by Rubem Alves (Harper and Row; 210 pp.; $6.95) (1972) (1)
IT'S ALL ABOUT TRANSFORMING MINDS (2005) (1)
THE MYTHIC GROUNDING OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE (2006) (1)
Faith and the Vitalities of History : A theological Study Based on the Work of Albrecht Ritschl (1966) (1)
THEOLOGY ENGAGÉE: LIBERATIONAL, POLITICAL, CRITICAL (1974) (1)
Unweaving, Weaving, and Knowing Where to Look (2007) (1)
The promise of Teilhard : the meaning of the twentieth century in Christian perspective (1970) (1)
Science and Well‐Winnowed Wisdom: The Grand Quest (2007) (1)
SYMPOSIUM ON RITUAL IN HUMAN ADAPTATION (1983) (1)
THE SELF–DEFINITION OF LIFE AND HUMAN PURPOSE: REFLECTIONS UPON THE DIVINE SPIRIT AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT (1973) (1)
SAINT IRENAEUS AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF FAITH (1963) (1)
CULTURE IS WHERE IT HAPPENS (2005) (1)
SCIENCE AND THE BIG QUESTIONS (2007) (1)
The Necessity for a Theology of Disease: Reflections on Totalities and Fragments (2004) (1)
Basic Christian Assumptions about the Cosmos (1977) (1)
E. O. Wilson, Stephen Pope, and Philip Hefner: A Conversation (2001) (1)
WHAT IS RELIGION TO DO (2006) (1)
DIALOGUE, YOKING, AND THE COMMON GOOD (2005) (0)
Healthcare is about Bodies and Bodyselves (2009) (0)
The Human Factor (2000) (0)
The Supreme Court: Who Speaks for Our Humanity? (2012) (0)
SCIENCE AND RELIGION: ATHENS AND JERUSALEM IN DIALOGUE ABOUT ATHENS' SALVATION (1979) (0)
Reflecting on Religious Naturalism : Possibilities and critiques (2018) (0)
THE CHALLENGE OF SELF‐CONCEIVING: BRIDGING MYTH AND SCIENCE (2008) (0)
Book Review:Evolution and Christian Hope. Man's Concept of the Future from the Early Fathers to Teilhard de Chardin Ernst Benz (1967) (0)
The Biology of God. Alister Hardy (1978) (0)
Part 2. poems (2007) (0)
Book Review: Crashing The Nationality Barrier in Theology (1973) (0)
Ralph Burhoe's Evolutionary Theory of Religion (1998) (0)
The Dream and the Wrath (1974) (0)
Wars are Won by Weapons, but Peace is Won by Ideas (2015) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Book Review:Darwinism and Divinity: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief John Durant (1988) (0)
A sample entry from the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005) (0)
THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON INTERCOMMUNION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LUTHERANS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS (1969) (0)
Introduction to the Symposium (2004) (0)
GETTING INTO THE SPIRIT OF THINGS (1974) (0)
Baboon-to-human transplants: should we proceed? (1995) (0)
Welcome to Peggy Blomenberg Eldredge (1999) (0)
Recent Developments in form Criticism and Their Significance for Systematic Theology (1966) (0)
Book Review:The Vindication of Liberal Theology Henry P. van Dusen (1963) (0)
Belief in the age of coronavirus: Dread, science and mystery (2020) (0)
Jeremiah Moments: Editorial (2017) (0)
What Shall We Make of the Human Brain (1999) (0)
The Enlightenment Won't Go Away (2000) (0)
Book Review:The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology Hans Jonas (1967) (0)
THE MEDIATIZED CO‐MEDIATIZER: ANTHROPOLOGY IN NIKLAS LUHMANN'S WORLD (2020) (0)
NEW TONGUES, STRANGE TONGUES, CONFUSED TONGUES: A Word in favor of Lee Snook (1976) (0)
James Cone's ongoing challenge (2018) (0)
The Politics and the Ontology of Nature and Grace (1974) (0)
Struggling over Nature (2004) (0)
A Letter to Axel (2004) (0)
An Agenda for Psychology on the Religion--Science Interface: Responding to Shafranske and Marmol (1997) (0)
The 1998 Barbour Lecture: Responding to Nature—The Interaction of Technology and Worldviews (1998) (0)
IN REPLY TO MR. KEETON: THEOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF TRUTH (1965) (0)
The Pilgrim Community and Orthodoxy: Reflecting on Carl Braaten's Memoir (2011) (0)
Religion and Science at the Parliament of the World's Religions (2005) (0)
Poverty in the United States: Ministry and Protest (2013) (0)
Blessed are the Prophets Who are Without Honor (2008) (0)
Which Grace? Which Tradition? (2010) (0)
Tribute to Carol Rausch Albright (1998) (0)
Book Review:Religion in an Age of Science Ian Barbour (1992) (0)
Professor Jordahl and the L.C.A. (1973) (0)
AN IDEA OF NATURE: A BIPOLAR PROPOSAL (2015) (0)
Science and the religions—a symposium (2002) (0)
Mobility: Disability and Life in the Spirit (2012) (0)
The Significance of Creationism (1988) (0)
Reforming Theology, Reframing Science (2007) (0)
William R. LaFleur (2002) (0)
Discussion [about the theology and influence of Helmut Thielicke] (1975) (0)

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