Prior to coming to CWRU, Shannon taught for 11 years at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, where she was a tenured member of the Ethics department and Associate Chair of the division of Leadership, Ethics, and Law. Shannon also holds a secondary appointment in the School of Law, is the Inamori Professor in Ethics, is the Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and directs the first Master’s Degree (MA) program in military ethics in the United States. Her primary research field is military ethics especially conduct of war issues, ethical leadership, command climate, warrior transitions, moral injury, and the future of warfare.
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French is a full professor in philosophy at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where she has taught since 2008. He resides in Columbia, SC, with his wife Noël and their four children. Media mentions of his work have appeared on CNN.com, local NPR, K-Love, Christian radio stations around the US, and a number of regional newspapers.ĭouglas has sixteen years of pastoral ministry experience (churches in NC, NY, CA, and AZ), and is a fellow in the Center for Pastor Theologians, at whose Techne Conference in 2019 he presented on “Why We Get Technology Wrong.” Prior to his position at South, Douglas taught at Phoenix Seminary and Western Seminary.
In addition, he has written numerous essays, articles, and book reviews as identified in his personal website. Douglas contributes articles on faith, science and technology regularly to Christianity Today, and is editor of Didaktikos, the journal for theological education. He has a forthcoming two-volume on Tolkien and Theology. His most recent concerning technology is Braving the Future: Christian Faith in a World of Limitless Tech (Herald, 2018). degree in chemistry from Virginia Military Institute and two masters degrees – one in Theology and one in Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Seminary, before earning his PhD.ĭouglas has written or edited nine books. Douglas comes by his interest in theology and science from both disciplines, having earned a B.Sc. He received his PhD in Theology from the University of Nottingham, UK. A warm welcome to:ĭouglas Estes, PhD is a professor of New Testament and practical theology, most recently at South University in Columbia, South Carolina, and an author of numerous books and articles on theology, including many focused on technology. 1, 2009.We are pleased to introduce four new Founding Members this month, and excited that you have answered our invitation to bring your expertise to key subject matter areas –military ethics, Hindu perspectives on AI by a pioneering AI computer scientist, science and theology, and technology and community – as well as adding to our faith diversity. They crafted a mission statement, adopted by-laws and appointed Drew Trotter as full-time Executive Director, to begin Jan. The founders were Randy Bare of Westminster House (UC, Berkeley), Rick Howe of the Dayspring Institute, (CU Boulder), Karl Johnson of Chesterton House, Dave Mahan of Rivendell Institute, Bob Osburn of the MacLaurin Institute (now Anselm House) and Drew Trotter of the Center for Christian Study. Paul, MN, and officially formed the Consortium of Christian Study Centers. In July 2008, representatives of six centers met in St. In July 2007, a dozen directors gathered at Chesterton House and resolved to formalize their collective endeavor. Similar informal gatherings of center directors continued intermittently for about a decade. Louis, a handful of center directors intentionally gathered to discuss their common vision for the first time. In 1998, when Drew Trotter was invited to give the Francis Schaeffer Memorial Lectures at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. By the end of the decade, these included Rivendell Institute (Yale, 1995), the Christian Study Center of Gainesville (UF, 2000) and Chesterton House (Cornell, 2000). Taking to heart the message of manifestos for Christian learning such as Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) and George Marsden’s Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1997), combined with the creative and catalytic periodical Books & Culture: A Christian Review, new centers began popping up, mostly at research universities. The 1990s was a fertile decade for Christian scholarship generally and the study center movement in particular.
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