Issues in Science and Theology: Global Sustainability Science and Religion in Dialogue

Michael Fuller has taught science and theology at the University of Edinburgh since 1998. He is the author of a monograph and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with the interface of science and religion, and he has edited numerous books relating to this subject. He has also published papers on theology and literature, and theology and music. He is a former Chair of the UK Science and Religion Forum, Vice-President for Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, and a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is an Honorary Canon of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. His research interests include ethical issues raised by new and emerging sciences.

Mark Harris is Andreos Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, and serves as President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT). He is also a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. His research interests include projects in condensed-matter physics (in the physics of frustrated magnetic materials), and in theological studies of 'nature'. His publications include articles in physics and in the cross-over between biblical studies and the natural sciences. He recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology (2022). 

Dr Joanna Leidenhag is Lecturer in Theology and Liberal Arts at the University of Leeds. Previously, she was Lecturer in Science-Engaged Theology at the University of St Andrews, which resulted in the book  Science-Engaged Theology  with Cambridge University Press (2023). Her first monograph,  Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation  (2021) intervened in a number of debates related to science-and-religion including the existence of the soul, emergence theory, divine action, and the environmental crisis.

Anne L.C. Runehov earned her Associate Professor and Dr. Theol. Philosophy of Religion degrees from Uppsala University. She is member of the board of  The Structure of Creditions , University of Graz, Austria, and a member of the board of ESSSAT.  Monographs are  Sacred or Neural?  (2007), and  The Human Being, the World and God  (2015). She is EiC of the  Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions,  (2013).   She is co-editor for the ESSSAT book series  Issues in Science and Religion .   She received the 2006 ESSSAT research prize.