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Nancey Murphy is a Christian theologian and philosopher known for her works on theology and science. She is currently Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary. Murphy received a B.A. in psychology and philosophy at Creighton University in 1973, a Ph.D in Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980, and a Doctorate of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 1987.
While working on her doctorate in philosophy she studied under the famed philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. Her late husband James William McClendon Jr. was a theologian with baptist roots who wrote a three volume series titled Ethics, Doctrine and Witness, as well as co-authored Convictions: Defusing Religious Relativism with James M. Smith.
Her first book, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, won prizes from both the American Academy of Religion and the Templeton Foundation awarded the 1999 Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology.12 She is the author of Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics, and also the co-author with George Ellis of On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics. 3
She is also a noted speaker, scheduled to speak at the Skeptics Society' "Origins Conference" at California Institute of Technology alongside Hugh Ross, Victor Stenger, and Leonard Susskind.4
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