Philip Clayton (theologian)

Philip Clayton (born 1955) is a contemporary American theologian and philosopher who is currently the Dean of Faculty at Claremont School of Theology and Provost at Claremont Lincoln University . He received dual PhDs from Yale in philosophy and theology, working with Louis Dupre. He also studied as a DAAD fellow under Wolfhart Pannenberg, eventually working as a translator of Pannenberg's theology.

Philip Clayton has held professorships at Williams College, California State University Sonoma, Harvard University, and Cambridge University. His research focuses on the relationship between religion and science, process theology, philosophy of religion, and contemporary issues in ecology, religion, and ethics. He has authored six books, including Explanation from Physics to Theology, God and Contemporary Science, The Problem of God in Modern Thought, Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness, In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World, and Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, and Divine Action. He has also edited nine volumes, including In Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World (with Arthur Peacocke), Evolution and Ethics (with Jeff Schloss), Practicing Science, Living Faith (with Jim Schaal), The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (with Paul Davies), All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century, and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (with Zachary Simpson). Clayton has been awarded the Templeton Prize and has received multiple research grants and international lectureships.

External links

• Philip Clayton's Website and Blog
• Claremont School of Theology
• Claremont Lincoln University
• The School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University