Speaker(s)

Edward B. (Ted) Davis is Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College (Grantham, PA), where he teaches courses on historical and contemporary aspects of Christianity and science and directs the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science. Mainly known for his work on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, Dr. Davis edited (with Michael Hunter) The Works of Robert Boyle, 14 vols. (London, 1999-2000), and a separate edition of Boyle’s influential treatise on God and nature, Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge, 1996). He wrote the chapter on Isaac Newton in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, ed. Ronald Numbers (Harvard, 2009). Davis has also written numerous articles and reviews on the history of religion and science in modern America, including a commentary on the Dover intelligent design trial (which he attended) that was published in the Winter 2006 edition of Religion in the News. BBC radio has featured his research on modern Jonah stories, published in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (December 1991).

With support from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation, Davis is currently writing a book about the religious beliefs of prominent American scientists in the 1920s. An article based on this project was published by American Scientist in May-June 2005. Davis is a former president of the American Scientific Affiliation, "a fellowship of men and women of science and disciplines that can relate to science who share a common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to integrity in the practice of science." Additional information may be found here.

Articles:

"A Priest Serving in Nature's Temple: Robert Boyle's Career Blended Faith, Doubt, and the Use of Science to Heal Disease and Fight Atheism."

"Science and Religious Fundamentalism in the 1920s"

"A Whale of a Tale: Fundamentalist Fish Stories"

"The Motivated Belief of John Polkinghorne"

"Evangelicals, Evolution, and Academics: Historical Perspective and Future Directions"

"As fine a historian as America now boasts."

The New Republic

Mark Noll, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the most prolific and highly regarded historians in North America.

Noll is the author of many books, including America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford, 2002), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994), and most recently, God and Race in American Politics (Princeton, 2008). Scandal was featured in an Atlantic Monthly cover story "The Opening of the Evangelical Mind."

Noll is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A, English), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A., Theology), and Vanderbilt University (Ph.D, History of Christianity). For 27 years he was on the faculty at Wheaton College, Illinois, where he taught in the departments of History and Theology as McManis Professor of Christian Thought. While at Wheaton, Noll also co-founded and directed the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.

In 1998, Noll inaugurated the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professorship of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. In 2005, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America. In 2006, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal. Since the Fall of 2006, Noll has been a faculty member in Department of History at the Notre Dame, where he replaced George Marsden as Notre Dame's Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History.

Bibliography:

Between Faith and Criticism; Evangelicals, Scholarship and The Bible In America (Harper and Row, 1986)
One Nation Under God: Christian Faith and Political Action in America (HarperCollins, 1988)
A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992)
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994)
Seasons of Grace (Baker, 1997)
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Baker, 1997)
American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2000)
Protestants in America (Religion in American Life) (Oxford University Press, 2000)
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity (Erdmans, 2001)
The Princeton Theology 1812-1921 : Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (Baker Academic, 2001)
America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys (A History of Evangelicalism) (Intervarsity Press, 2004)
Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom) (Baker Books, 2005)
Christians in the American Revolution (Regent College Publishing, 2006)
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
What Happened to Christian Canada? (Regent College Publishing, 2007)
Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2007)

MUSICIANS

DR. WILLIAM EDGAR, educated at Harvard University, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Université de Genève, is Professor of Philosophical Apologetics at Westminster Thejavascript:mceToggle('edit-field_details-0-value', 'wysiwyg4field_details-0-value');ological Seminary and the author of several books. Also a pianist and popular conference speaker, his articles on the history of jazz and blues include "Ain't it Hard: Suffering and Hope in the Blues," and "The Deep Joy of Jazz."

RUTH NAOMI FLOYD is an acclaimed vocalist-composer and recording artist of several CDs, including Root to the Fruit and Fan Into Flame. "My appreciation for gospel singers has always begun and ended with Mahalia Jackson--until, that is, I heard Ruth Naomi Floyd’s Fan Into Flame." -Christopher Louden, Jazz Times. "Ruth Naomi Floyd’s artistry eliminates the need to choose between the sonic pleasure of jazz and the timeless message of the Gospel. Her work is the future." -Teresa L. Reed, author, The Holy Profane : Religion in Black Popular Music. See this documentary on Ruth Naomi Floyd.

JOHN PATITUCCI is one of the leading jazz bassists in the world, having been selected as Best Jazz Bassist in both Guitar Player Magazine and Bass Player Magazine multiple times. He has received two Grammy Awards (one for playing and one for composing), over fifteen Grammy nominations, and his first solo recording went to number one on the Billboard Jazz charts. He has played and recorded with B.B. King, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Sting, Wynton Marsalis, Carly Simon and others. In 2003, John was appointed Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at City College. To get an idea of what this guy can do with a bass, check out Bach's Suite for Cello No. 1 in G Major - Prelude, and Jesus in on the Main Line.

JOE SALZANO has been a professional musician and composer for 35 years, teaching and performing on saxophone and clarinet. In January 2000, Joe received Jesus Christ at Canton-Potsdam Hospital Drug & Alcohol Rehab, at which time God set him free from lifelong alcohol and drug addiction and miraculously healed him of a fatal liver disease. As a result of his faith in Christ, his musical direction has changed dramatically and has met its purpose in glorifying God and passing on to the next generation a commitment to artistic passion, integrity, and freedom. His saxophone playing can be heard on this earlier rendition of Heaven in a Nightclub.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

ANDY CROUCH is editorial director for The Christian Vision Project at Christianity Today and executive producer of intersect|culture, a series of short documentary films on Christians creating "a counterculture for the common good.” Formerly a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University, and editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, he is currently on the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute. His writing has appeared in several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. Educated at Cornell University and Boston University School of Theology, he is also a classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel.

Nicholas Wolterstorff received his A.B. from Calvin College in 1953, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. After teaching philosophy for two years at Yale, he returned to the philosophy department at his alma mater in 1959. He returned to Yale in 1989, where he was a member of the Divinity School, of the Philosophy Department, and of the Religious Studies Department. He has taught, during leaves of absence, at Haverford College, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the University of Texas, Notre Dame University, and the Free University of Amsterdam. He retired from teaching at the end of 2001, and is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, at the University of Virginia.

He has been President of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers; he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the lectures he has given are the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University, the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University, and the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary. Among the books he has published are On Universals, Works and Worlds of Art, Art in Action, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Divine Discourse, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Educating for Shalom, and Lament for a Son.

Panelists for the afternoon session will be:

Rev. Dr. Rolf Bouma, Director of the Center for Faith and Scholarship at the Campus Chapel, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dr. Heather DeHaan, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY Binghamton

Dr. J. Richard Middleton, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Roberts Wesleyan College 

See these links to articles/excerpts by Wolterstorff on the theme of Shalom.

Introduction and Afterward

The Grace that Shaped My Life

Teaching for Gratitude and

A Shalom View of Human Flourishing (scroll down to page 6)