Dr. Edward Epsen
- Department Systematic Theology
- Title Associate Professor of Theology
Education
- PhD Durham University
- PhD University of Pennsylvania
Biography
Dr. Edward J. Epsen is dually trained in philosophy and theology. Dr. Epsen studies Christian doctrine in the context of current cultural challenges, including the religion-science dialogue, science and technology governance, and especially the ethics of emerging technologies.
His publications and presentations focus on themes surrounding creation and providence. Dr. Epsen has written a monograph and academic journal articles on the dogmatic question of what gets produced in the divine act of creation and how it is internally organized and administrated. This focus leads to adjacent questions about the mind-brain relation, perceptual psychology, miracles and divine action in nature, the cosmic significance of Christology, and the ethics of intervention on land, energy, and labor, topics Dr. Epsen has written about and remains interested in investigating.
Dr. Epsen has served as the Lord Gifford Fellow of Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He served as the director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology (RIST) at King’s College London. He was also Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Samford University and enjoyed the support of a research fellowship with the project ‘God and the Book of Nature: Building a Science-Engaged Theology’, a £2.44 million international project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Select Publications
“AI and the Opacity of Expert Reasoning”
From Laws to Liturgy: An Idealist Theology of Creation (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2020).
“Why God Had to Have an Immaculate Mother”, New Blackfriars (2016) 97:560-74.
“Eternity is a Present, Time is Its Unwrapping”, Heythrop Journal (2010) 51: 417-29.
“Games with Zero-knowledge Signaling”, Studia Logica (2007) 86: 409-42.
Email: eepsen@saintmeinrad.edu