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Since 1990, CTNS and the Vatican Observatory have sponsored a series of
biannual research conferences focused broadly on the theme of divine action
as it arises in a variety of specific scientific topics and theological
issues. The goal includes a clearer
understanding of the relation between contemporary science and "non-interventionist,
special, objective divine action" (see Russell, "Chaos and
Complexity," esp. Sec. 3.3.). The
publications from these conferences include: Robert John Russell, Nancey C.
Murphy and Chris J. Isham, eds., Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature:
Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Scientific Perspectives on Divine
Action Series (Vatican City State; Berkeley, Calif.: Vatican Observatory
Publications; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1993); Robert John
Russell, Nancey C. Murphy and Arthur R. Peacocke, eds., Chaos and
Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action Series (Vatican City State; Berkeley, Calif.:
Vatican Observatory Publications; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences,
1995); Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, S. J and Francisco J. Ayala,
eds., Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine
Action, ed. Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, S. J and Francisco J.
Ayala (Vatican City State; Berkeley, California: Vatican Observatory
Publications; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998); Robert John
Russell, Nancey Murphy, et al., eds., Neuroscience
and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City
State; Berkeley, California: Vatican Observatory Publications; Center for
Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999); Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, et al., eds., Quantum
Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
(Vatican City State; Berkeley, California: Vatican Observatory Publications;
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2000). This series arose out of the original Vatican Observatory
conference on religion and science published in Robert John Russell, William R.
Stoeger, S.J. and George V. Coyne, S.J., eds., Physics, Philosophy, and
Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (Vatican City State: Vatican
Observatory Publications, 1988). Other helpful sources include Polkinghorne,
Science and providence, Ch. 2; Barbour, Religion in an age of science,
chs. 8, 9; Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and
Becoming --- Natural, Divine and Human, Enlarged Edition
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), ch. 9; Philip Clayton, God and
Contemporary Science (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
1997), Ch. 7. See also Jitse M. van der Meer, Editor, Facets of Faith &
Science, Four Volumes (Ancaster, Ontario; Lanham: The Pascal Centre for
Advanced Studies in Faith and Science; University Press of America, Inc.,
1996), esp. Vol. 4. For a careful
analysis see Steven D. Crain, "Divine Action and the Natural
Sciences," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 32.3(September
1997). and Southgate, Deane-Drummond, et al., God, Humanity and the
Cosmos, Ch. 7.
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