The 2024 Online Conference Series is inspired by Key Themes from Arthur Peacocke's Work in what would have been his 100th year. Delegates are invited to critically re-engage with these themes from multi-faith perspectives and examine how they interact with the scientific, technological, and environmental challenges and opportunities posed by the 21st Century.

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The Call for Papers for each conference closes approximately two months before the conference. You are warmly invited to submit papers for more than one conference, and you can submit papers simultaneously if you wish. Please note you will be notified about the outcome after the closing date for each call. Papers do NOT need to engage directly with Peacocke's work, but MUST engage with the conference theme.

 

Submissions are invited for traditional papers, round table discussions, or interactive workshops related to the conference theme. Paper sessions are 30mins, round tables & workshops are 45mins. Timings include any Q&A. 

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All Submissions MUST engage with conference themes at the intersection of science and religion. This engagement may include natural or social sciences. Ethnographic/sociological studies that address scientists' engagement with faith or how people of faith engage with science also fall within the remit of this call. 

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13th-14th June Continuous and co-creation: Emergence in a Scientific Age:

Call Closes 30th April

“For the processes of the world exhibit an intelligible continuity in which the potentialities of its constituents are unfolded in forms of an ever-increasing complexity and organisation” (Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age p.300)

 

We invite papers which (re-)engage with the question of emergence within the science-religion dialogue. We welcome papers from a broad range of religious and faith perspectives and the papers do not need to engage directly with Peacocke’s own work, only central themes. The conference will explore and challenge key theological and religious themes around emergence including:

• Purpose, design, and emergent complexity

• Consciousness, emergence and the biological sciences

• Reductionism, emergence, and religious reflection

• Emergence and divine action

• The impact of emergence on science-religion relationships

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28th-29th October Science, Causality and God: Divine Action in a Scientific Age: 

Call Closes 31st August

“What kind of conception of how God acts in or, more generally, interacts with, the world can we possibly have in the light of scientific perspectives on that world – the presuppositions of which also underlie our scientific, psychological, sociological and historical events in human experience?” (Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age p.139)

 

We invite papers which (re-)engage with the question of divine action and causality within the science-religion dialogue. We welcome papers from a broad range of religious and faith perspectives and the papers do not need to engage directly with Peacocke’s own work, only central themes. The conference will explore and challenge key themes around divine action, causality, and science including:

• Forces, causality, and Divine Action

• God’s interaction and communication with the world

• Divine Action, the Causal Joint, and consciousness

• Laws of nature, ecology, and divine action

• Creation, co-creation, and continuous creation

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27th-28th November Filling and Surrounding the World: Pan(en)theism in a Scientific Age: 

Call Closes 30th September

The revival of pan(en)theism is “extremely significant for our understanding of God’s relation to the world, including humanity. Broadly they all point to the need to accentuate, in the light of contemporary knowledge of the world and of humanity, a much stronger sense than in the past of God as in some sense ‘in’ the world – without […] demeaning from or qualifying God’s ultimate transcendence, God’s ontological ultimate ‘otherness’” (Peacocke, In Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being, p. xix)

 

We invite papers which (re-)engage with the question of pantheism and/or panentheism within the science-religion dialogue. We welcome papers from a broad range of religious and faith perspectives and the papers do not need to engage directly with Peacocke’s own work, only central themes. As Cooper notes panentheism has experienced a renaissance at the intersection of science and religion. The conference will explore and challenge key themes around the God-World relation including:

• Metaphysical implications of pan(en)theism

• Panentheism and the quantum universe

• God’s presence and action in a scientific world

• Space, Time, and Panentheism

• A connected world, stewardship, and environmental ethics