Ted Peters

Ted Peters’ is a theologian, teacher, and researcher in the areas of contemporary theology and the relationship between science and religion. His teaching portfolio includes the field of theology in the 20th and 21st centuries for both doctoral level students and for students preparing to serve in the ordained clergy. He is a Lutheran theologian and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America--teaching in an ecumenical institution with students from an array of differing denominations. He has authored several books on theology and has served as editor-in-chief of Dialog, A Journal of Theology from 1992 to 2007.

Peters has also been a leading contributor in the area of the relationship between religion and science. He is a research professor at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union, and is co-editor of the journal Theology and Science which is published by the Center.

He worked as area editor for “Science and Religion” for the 4th edition of Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volumes IV-VIII, and for the 2nd edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan 2005). He is author of Anticipating Omega (Vendenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006) and Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate 2003). With Martinez Hewlett he co-authored Evolution from Creation to New Creation (Abingdon 2003) and Can You Believe in God and Evolution? (Abingdon 2006). Peters edited Science and Theology: The New Consonance (Westview, 1998). He co-edited with Gaymon Bennett and Kang Phee Seng Bridging Science and Religion (SCM and Fortress, 2003)

In the area of genetics and society, Peters served as Principal Investigator for a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health on “Theological and Ethical Questions Raised by the Human Genome Initiative” hosted at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1990-1994. Based on his research he has written Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002). He edited the findings of the CTNS-NIH project for publication in a multi-author book titled, Genetics: Issues of Social Justice (Pilgrim 1998); and authored The Stem Cell Debate (Fortress 2007). Along with Karen Lebacqz and Gaymon Bennett, he is co-author of Immortal Lines? Theologians Say “Yes” to Stem Cells, forthcoming with Roman & Littlefield.

He currently serves on the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CRIM) and the Genetics Task Force of the ELCA. As a member of the research team on the “Religion, Culture, and Family” project sponsored by the University of Chicago, he wrote For the Love of Children: Genetic Technology and the Future of the Family (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996). He served as a member of the Ethics Advisory Board for the Geron Corporation, 1998-2002.

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