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PhD Theology University of Chicago
Masters Theology Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

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According to Wikipedia, Theodore Frank Peters , known as Ted Peters, is an American Lutheran theologian and Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. In addition to his work as a theologian and educator, he is a prolific author and editor on Christian theology, Public Theology, the interaction of science and religion, bioethics, and space ethics. He is the former editor of Dialog, a quarterly scholarly magazine of modern and postmodern theology, and now co-editor of Theology and Science. Peters also serves on the Advisory Council of METI . Ted Peters also writes fiction, espionage thrillers featuring a female inner city pastor, Leona Foxx. He received a BA from Michigan State University, an M.Div. from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedon (1997) (118)
God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life (1993) (60)
Research with human embryonic stem cells: ethical considerations. By Geron Ethics Advisory Board. (1999) (43)
God the World's Future: Systematic Theology for a Postmodern Era (1992) (28)
The implications of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for religion (2011) (27)
Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society (1994) (27)
"Playing God" and germline intervention. (1995) (24)
For the love of children : genetic technology and the future of the family (1996) (24)
Astrotheology and the ETI Myth (2009) (23)
ASTROTHEOLOGY: A CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL (2014) (19)
Science, Theology, and Ethics (2003) (19)
Science and Religion: Ten Models of War, Truce, and Partnership (2017) (17)
Would the Discovery of ETI Provoke a Religious Crisis (2013) (17)
God - the World's Future: Systematic Theology for a New Era (2015) (17)
Sacred Cells?: Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research (2008) (16)
Bridging Science and Religion (2003) (16)
DAVID BOHM, POSTMODERNISM, AND THE DIVINE (1985) (15)
Imago Dei, DNA, and the Transhuman Way (2018) (14)
Stem Cells, Aging, and the Fountain of Youth (2012) (13)
Does extraterrestrial life have intrinsic value? An exploration in responsibility ethics (2018) (13)
Evolution From Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation, and Convergence (2003) (13)
Theologians Testing Transhumanism (2015) (13)
Should CRISPR Scientists Play God (2017) (13)
Cosmos As Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance (1989) (12)
Models of God (2007) (12)
Can You Believe in God and Evolution?: A Guide for the Perplexed (2006) (11)
The Soul of Trans‐Humanism (2005) (11)
God, life, and the cosmos : Christian and Islamic perspectives (2005) (10)
Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges (2021) (9)
THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE: WHERE ARE WE? (1996) (9)
The cosmic self : a penetrating look at today's New Age movements (1991) (8)
CONSTRUCTING A THEOLOGY OF EVOLUTION: BUILDING ON JOHN HAUGHT (2010) (8)
Metaphor and the Horizon of the Unsaid (1978) (8)
Embryonic Persons in the Cloning and Stem Cell Debates (2003) (8)
Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2009) (8)
Anticipating Omega: Science, Faith, and Our Ultimate Future (2006) (7)
TECHNO‐SECULARISM, RELIGION, AND THE CREATED CO‐CREATOR (2005) (7)
Natural Theology versus Theology of Nature (2005) (7)
Religious Traditions and Genetic Enhancement (2008) (7)
Science and Theology (2019) (7)
Flashing the Yellow Traffic Light: Choices Forced Upon Us by Gene Editing Technologies (2018) (7)
The Nature and Role of Presupposition: An Inquiry into Contemporary Hermeneutics (1974) (6)
Genethics: implications of the human genome project. (1990) (6)
In search of the perfect child: genetic testing and selective abortion. (1996) (6)
The Stem Cell Debate (2007) (6)
Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics (2008) (6)
Public Theology: Its Pastoral, Apologetic, Scientific, Political, and Prophetic Tasks (2018) (6)
Who’s Winning the War Against Science? (2018) (6)
The Higgs Boson: An Adventure in Critical Realism (2013) (6)
Truth in History: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Pannenberg's Apologetic Method (1975) (5)
ASTROBIOLOGY AND ASTROCHRISTOLOGY (2016) (5)
Why Darwin's theory of evolution deserves theological support (2006) (5)
The Terror of Time (2000) (5)
ARE WE CLOSER TO FREE MARKET EUGENICS? THE CRISPR CONTROVERSY (2019) (5)
Religion and the implications of radical life extension (2009) (5)
Eschatological Rationality: Theological Issues in Focus by Gerhard Sauter Grand Rapids, Baker, 1996. 207 pp. $16.99 (1998) (4)
Playing God with Frankenstein (2018) (4)
The end of the World and the ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology Edited by John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker Harrisburg, Trinity, 2000. 309 pp. $27.00 (2001) (4)
Outer space and cyber space: meeting ET in the cloud (2016) (4)
Designer children: the market world of reproductive choice. (1994) (4)
CRISPR, the Precautionary Principle, and Bioethics (2015) (4)
Toward a Galactic Common Good: Space Exploration Ethics (2018) (4)
Stem Cell Research and the Claim of the Other in the Human Subject (2004) (4)
Truth and Method. Hans-Georg Gadamer (1977) (4)
Where There's Life There's Intelligence (2017) (4)
Free Will in Science, Philosophy, and Theology (2019) (3)
Grace, Doubt, and Evil: The Constructive Task Of Reformation Theology (2002) (3)
Christian God-Talk While Listening to Atheists, Pluralists, and Muslims (2007) (3)
Radical life extension, cybernetic immortality, and techno-salvation. Really? (2018) (3)
Astroethics for Earthlings: Our Responsibility to the Galactic Commons (2021) (3)
Keep the 14-Day Rule in Stem Cell Research (2021) (3)
Can You Believe in God And Evolution (2008) (3)
Eschatology: Eternal Now or Cosmic Future? (2001) (3)
Evolution, Evil, and the Theology of the Cross (2013) (3)
The Boundaries of Human Nature (2015) (3)
The science of evil and the evil of science (2018) (3)
Francis Collins, the Skeptics, and Evidence for God (2016) (2)
Intelligent Aliens and Astroethics (2014) (2)
Ten Ethical Issues in Exploring Our Solar Ghetto (2015) (2)
Projecting Earth on to Heaven: The Hopes of Frank Drake and the Fears of Stephen Hawking (2017) (2)
Naturalism of the Gaps (2015) (2)
Proleptic Ethics vs. Stop Sign Ethics. Theology and Future of Genetics (2013) (2)
Cult books revisited (2017) (2)
The Heart of the Reformation Faith (2005) (2)
The War Between Faith and Fact (2016) (2)
Religious Sacrifice, Social Scapegoating, and Self-Justification (2017) (2)
The Enigma of “In, With, and Under”: A Response to the Great Dane (2013) (2)
The Deluge of Dataism: A New Post-Human Religion? (2017) (2)
“Of Mice and Men”: Making Babies from Stem Cells (2009) (2)
Fear, Faith, and the Future: Affirming Christian Hope in the Face of Doomsday Prophesies (1979) (2)
Afterword: Theological, Spiritual, and Ethical Reflections on Radical Life Extension (2009) (2)
The Ebullient Transhumanist and the Sober Theologian (2019) (2)
The Future Fusion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Big Histories (2021) (2)
A theological argument for chimeras (2007) (2)
Not in My Backyard! the Waste-Disposal Crisis (2017) (1)
Should we patent God's creation? (1996) (1)
Naturalisms: Scientific? Religious? Theological? (2017) (1)
Public Theology, Discourse Clarification, and Worldview Construction (2021) (1)
Ethical Considerations Surrounding Nuclear Waste Repository Siting and Mitigation (2019) (1)
Covenant, blood, and violence: America at war with itself and others (2019) (1)
Happy Danes and Deep Incarnation (2013) (1)
The Transcendence of the Self in Light of the Hard Problem: A Response to Bas van Fraassen (2019) (1)
Our common cosmos: an exercise in astrotheology (2019) (1)
Intelligence? Not Artificial, but the Real Thing! (2019) (1)
Does God Have a Plan for the Big History of the Cosmos? (2014) (1)
Astrobiology and Astrotheology in Creative Mutual Interaction (2018) (1)
Sin, Scapegoating, and JustifyingFaith (2000) (1)
Life in the Cosmos: (2020) (1)
The return of the chimera (2006) (1)
Faith in Christ today: An engagement with Klaus Nürnberger (2018) (1)
Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics (2021) (1)
Eliminating Free Will? (2020) (1)
Can We Live with a Lesser God (2010) (1)
The Cosmic Mind: Entanglement over Physics, Panpsychism, and the Trinity (2016) (1)
Where's “Nature” in “Natural Law”? (2009) (1)
Universal Humanity, Religious Particularity, and Scientific Reductionism (2017) (1)
The Struggle for Cognitive Liberty: Retrofitting the Self in Activist Theology (2020) (1)
Toward a Theology of the Evolutionarily Unfit (2013) (1)
The Whirlwind As Yet Unnamed (1974) (1)
Longevity Research: Theological Implications (2019) (1)
Bunk or Blasphemy? (1994) (1)
EXTINCTION, NATURAL EVIL, AND THE COSMIC CROSS (2018) (1)
Theology of Nature Belongs within Public Theology (2022) (1)
Does extraterrestrial life have intrinsic value? An exploration in responsibility ethics– CORRIGENDUM (2019) (1)
The Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life for Religion and Theology (2012) (1)
Should We Send Messages to Extraterrestrials? (2019) (1)
Allies in the Struggle Against the Post-Truth Swarm (2019) (1)
God As Trinity (1993) (1)
Protestantism and the Sciences (2007) (1)
E.O. Wilson's Conquest of Earth (2013) (1)
Astrotheology (2019) (1)
Exotheology: Speculations on Extraterrestrial Life (2017) (1)
THE FUTURE OF THE RESURRECTION (2005) (1)
David Wilkinson. Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2013) (1)
Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life (2018) (1)
The Science of Evil and the Theology of Evil (2019) (1)
ET: Alien Enemy or Celestial Savior? (2010) (1)
Sin Boldly!: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls (2015) (1)
For the love of children (1996) (1)
Justice, justification, and self-justification (2016) (1)
Are We Getting Closer to ET? (2011) (0)
Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values that Move Us Beyond Fear (2022) (0)
My outrage over outrage (2022) (0)
SOLA SCRIPTURA AND THE SECOND NAIVETE (1977) (0)
Can we locate our origin in the future? Archonic versus epigenetic creation accounts (2022) (0)
Science: A Prescription for a Healthy Theology? (2007) (0)
Judgment and condemnation: How we love it! (2018) (0)
Biological Mutualism and Theology of Nature (2020) (0)
Modern Trinitarian Perspectives. John Thompson (1996) (0)
The eye of faith and the eye of science: Regin Prenter and Niels Henrik Gregersen on God's creation (2018) (0)
Science in Pastoral Ministry 1 (2006) (0)
Johanne Stubbe Teglbjærg Kristensen. Body and Hope: A Constructive Interpretation of Recent Eschatology by Means of the Phenomenology of the Body. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013. 300 pages. (2016) (0)
God in Cosmic History: Responding to my Critics (2017) (0)
Astrobiology: The Almost Religious Science (2022) (0)
Oh No! Not more galaxies! (2017) (0)
JESUS' RESURRECTION: AN HISTORICAL EVENT WITHOUT ANALOGY (1973) (0)
Is it the Lure of Ethical Laxity that Woos stem cell scientists to Singapore? (2007) (0)
Law-GospelDialectic in the Pulpit (2000) (0)
The Theology of the Cross and Cultural Analysis (2020) (0)
Artificial Intelligence versus Agape Love: Spirituality in a Posthuman Age (2019) (0)
Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Frankenfear (2019) (0)
Eschatology Full Strength (2001) (0)
The future of religion's past (2019) (0)
Ricoeur and the Third Discourse of the Person: From Philosophy and Neuroscience to Psychiatry and Theology (2021) (0)
Evolution: What Are The Alternatives? (2006) (0)
Connie and Pastor Hochaltar (2007) (0)
Truth in Editing (2003) (0)
Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet ET (2018) (0)
Cloning Shock: A Theological Reaction (2017) (0)
Big History and Big Questions (2016) (0)
In Memoriam: Ian Graeme Barbour (1923–2013) (2014) (0)
Book Review:The Apostles' Creed in Light of Today's Questions Wolfhart Pannenberg, Margaret Kohl (1974) (0)
From nationalism to violence: Just where did religion go? (2019) (0)
Timothy Frank Lull: In Memoriam (2003) (0)
Religious Belief Makes Me Stupid (2020) (0)
The Problem of Suffering in Theistic Evolution (2011) (0)
Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Approach to the End of the World; By Catherine Keller Boston, Beacon, 1996. 370 pp. $30.00 (1997) (0)
“Human Cloning? Yes, It's Here” (2013) (0)
Time in Eternity and Eternity in Time (2016) (0)
Reality Denied: Firsthand Experiences with Things That Can’t Happen—But Did (2018) (0)
Space ‘n’ grace: Introducing astrotheology and astroethics (2022) (0)
FUTURE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NEED FOR THEOLOGY (1974) (0)
Deep grace in deep space? How to become an astrotheologian (2022) (0)
Evolution in Our Schools: What Should We Teach? (2006) (0)
Imagination and the Future: Essays on Christian Thought and Practice. John A. Henley (1983) (0)
Oh No! Still More Galaxies! (2017) (0)
America's 2nd opiate crisis: Christian nationalism (2023) (0)
Apologies to the authentic diversity advisory team (2021) (0)
Multiple choice in baby making. (1996) (0)
Science and Theology: Toward Consonance (2019) (0)
God's Planet (2015) (0)
Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology. By TeSelle Sallie McFague. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975. 186 pages. $4.25. (1976) (0)
The STAP Flap, the CIRM Squirm, and Lab Morality (2014) (0)
American Cosmic: UFO's, Religion, Technology (2019) (0)
Whole and Part: The Tension between the Common Good and Individual Freedom (2017) (0)
Klaatu Barada Nikto: Reviewing “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2009) (0)
Book Review:Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology Sallie McFague TeSelle (1976) (0)
On the gay gene: back to original sin again? (1994) (0)
The End of Adam and Eve: Theology & the Science of Human Origins, by Ron Cole-Turner (2017) (0)
Book Review:The Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg E. Frank Tupper (1975) (0)
Boarding the Transhumanist Train: How Far Should the Christian Ride? (2019) (0)
God in Cosmic History: A Response to My Critics (2021) (0)
Theologians and Other Idiots (2007) (0)
Book Review: On the Way to God: An Exploration into the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg (1990) (0)
Theistic evolution—a greater fairytale for mankind (2007) (0)
Power versus goodness (2020) (0)
VALUES FOR A NO‐GROWTH FUTURE (1976) (0)
Does Faith Contaminate Science? On the Appointment of Francis Collins (2009) (0)
Cosmos and Creation (2020) (0)
Peacemaking in the Stem Cell Wars (2005) (0)
For beneficence, let cloning for research continue [1] (2002) (0)
Metaphor and Myth in Science and Religion. By MacCormac Earl R.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1976. xvii + 167 pages. $7.95. (1978) (0)
Six Ways of Salvation: How Does Jesus Save? (2006) (0)
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION (1976) (0)
Hope in the Age of Climate Change (2018) (0)
Method, Methodology, and Theology (2020) (0)
Detecting ET and the Implications for Life on Earth (2010) (0)
Why Didn't Jesus Come? (2012) (0)
Muslims, Christians, Stem Cells, and Neighbor Love (2008) (0)
Langdon Gilkey: In Memoriam (2005) (0)
Evolution, Theodicy, and New Creation (2020) (0)
Book Review:The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century David E. Ford (1991) (0)
Re‐Framing the Question: How Can We Construct a Theology of Religions? (2007) (0)
Scientific Research and the Christian Faith (1991) (0)
Evolving from Earthlings into Martians? (2020) (0)
Who Sets the Evolution Agenda? (2006) (0)
Science in Seminary? Really? (2015) (0)
The temptation of scientism (2020) (0)
Book Review (2005) (0)
Faith's focus: its formation and reformation. (1979) (0)
Evolution, Suffering, and Eschatological Redemption: Sollereder, Southgate, and Russell on Theodicy (2019) (0)
Eschatology and the Technological Future, by Michael S. Burdett (2017) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Puppet Determinism and Promethean Determinism (2014) (0)
Book Review: A Corrective to Liberation Theology (1981) (0)
Genome project forces new look at ethics, law. (1993) (0)
Prebunking Disinformation in Science, Skepticism, and Theology (2022) (0)
FINLON down under (2006) (0)
The Spirituality of Justification (2014) (0)
The Science‐Religion Dialogue: An Ecumenical Catalyst? (2001) (0)
Theologians Get No Respect (2017) (0)
Classical, Critical and Constructive: Paul Hinlicky's Beloved Community (2017) (0)
The Resistance of Self-Justification to God's Grace (2019) (0)
Liberation, law and proleptic dignity (2018) (0)
Sacred Cells? Response to the Respondents (2011) (0)
The Planet We Adore (2013) (0)
E pluribus unum and civil harmony at election time (2020) (0)
Terrestrial Ethics and Extraterrestrial Astrotheology (2020) (0)
A Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind (2016) (0)

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