Selected
Publications
Dr. George L. Murphy
BOOKS
The Trademark of God (Morehouse-Barlow, Wilton CT, 1986)
Cosmic Witness (with LaVonne Althouse and Russell Willis) (CSS, Lima OH, 1996)
Toward a Christian View of a Scientific World (CSS,
The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross (Trinity Press International, Harrisburg PA, 2003)
Pulpit Science Fiction (CSS, Lima OH, 2005)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
(Publications in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, formerly Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, including some not listed here, can be found at the website of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.)
Theology and Science
"Modern Science and Old Theology" (St. Mark's Review 92, 3, 1977)
"Science, Theology, and the Bridge of Light" (dialog 21, 36, 1982)
"A Theological Argument for Evolution" (Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 38, 19, 1986)
"On Medicine and Ministry" (Lutheran Forum 22, 6, 1988)
"What Can We Learn from Einstein about Religious Language?" (Currents in Theology and Mission 15, 342, 1988)
"Celebrating Our Stewardship of Creation" (Lutheran Partners 5.6, 1989, 17)
"Chiasmic Cosmology as the Context for Bioethics" (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 42, 1990, 94)
"Quantum Theory and Resurrection Reality" (CTNS Bulletin 11, 25, 1991)
"Cosmology as an Agenda Item for the Eighth Council" (dialog 30, 290, 1991
"Time, Thermodynamics, and Theology" (Zygon 26, 359, 1991)
"Chiasmic Cosmology: An Approach to the Science-Theology Dialogue" (Trinity Seminary Review 13, 83, 1991)
"A Theological Basis for Earthcare" (with Peter Bakken, Diane Jacobson, and Paul Santmire) (Lutheran Forum 27.2, 27, 1993)
"The Incarnation as a Theanthropic Principle" (Word & World XIII, 256, 1993)
"The Science-Theology Dialogue at Pew Level" (Science & Religion News 5/1, 8, 1994)
"Energy and the Generation of the World" (Zygon 29, 259, 1994)
"Cosmology and Christology" (Science & Christian Belief 6, 101, 1994)
"'9.5 Theses' on Eco-Spirituality" (It's Not Easy Being Green, Fall/Winter 1995)
"Fertility Technologies and Trans-Kin Altruism" (Journal of Medical Humanities 17, 195, 1996)
"Leading Creation's Praise of God" (The Bride of Christ XX.3 & 4, 39, 1996)
"Fake Science, Anti-Science, and the Church" (Works 5.5, 6, 6, 1996)
"From the Small Catechism to the Big Bang" (Glaube und Denken 10, 29, 1997.)
"Mars Needs Theologians" (Works 6.1,2, 1, 1997)
"Religion in Science Fiction" (Forum Letter 27.5, 6, 1998)
"The Theology of the Cross and God's Work in the World" (Zygon 33, 221,1998)
"What Can Physics Contribute to Eschatology?" (dialog 38, 35, 1999)
"Does the Trinity Play Dice?" (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 51, 19, 1999)
"The Impact of Science on Christian Worship" (Seminary Ridge Review, 63, Winter 1999)
"Science Education and Religion-Science Conversations" (Physics & Society 29.3, 11, 2000)
"Worshiping in 2001" (The Lutheran, January 2001, 14)
“Chiasmic Cosmology and Creation's Functional Integrity” (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 53, 7, 2001)
“Hints from Science for Eschatology – and Vice
Versa” in Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson
(ed.), The Last Things (William B. Eerdmans,
“Intelligent Design as a Theological Problem” (Covalence IV.2, 1, 2002)
“Caring for Creation Today: Dialogue, Debate and
Discipleship” (Journal of Lutheran Ethics 3.9, Sept. 2003.
)
"Christology, evolution, and the
theology of the cross" in Keith B. Miller (ed.), Perspectives on an Evolving Creation (Eerdmans,
Lutheran Partners "Handiwork" Columns, 1999 - 2004
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Physics
"Bang Model without Singularities" (Physical Review D8, 4231, 1973)
"The Fundamental Length of Quantized Gravitation" (American Journal of Physics 42, 958, 1974)
"Affine-Projective Field Laws" (Physical Review D11, 2752, 1975)
"Mach's Principle in Nonsymmetric Field Theories" (Australian Journal of Physics 29, 469, 1976)
"Generation of Harmonics in Gravitational Waves" (Physical Review D14, 2487, 1976)
"Do Superheavies Come from Neutron Stars?" (Nature 263, 114, 1976)
"Strings in the Embedding Space" (Progress of Theoretical Physics 59, 2158, 1978)
"Electrodynamic and Gravitational Effects of Proca Stresses in Astrophysics" with Ronald R. Burman (Astrophysics and Space Science 56, 363, 1978)
"On the Strength of Einstein's Unified Field Equations" (International Journal of Theoretical Physics 18, 323, 1979)
"On the 'Nonclassical Many-Valuedness' of the Universe" (Foundations of Physics 4, 351, 1984)
"Energy and Momentum from the Palatini Formalism" (International Journal of Theoretical Physics 29, 1003, 1990)
"Einstein + Bohr + Newton = Quantum Cosmology" (The Physics Teacher 35, 480, 1997)
"Can the Universe Recycle?" (International Journal of Theoretical Physics 37, 1327, 1998)
“A Model of Cosmological Matter” (Physics Essays 15, 230, 2002)
Other Topics
"Platonic Physics" (Aftermath 5, 8, 1977)
"Arise, Ye Prisoners of" (National Review, 14 April 1978, p.471)
"Shouldn't We Side with the Oppressed?" (Thinking With Independence 107, 8, 1988)
"For the Ordination of Women" (Lutheran Forum 24, 6, 1990)
"The Trajectory of Creation and the Ordination of Women" (The Bride of Christ XXIV.1, 16, 1999)
Audio-Visual Material
"Science and Technology in Worship" (Augsburg Fortress Resource audiotape, June 1993)
"The Science-Theology Dialogue Today" (SELECT Video Courses, 1994)
Courses for the Akron Area Association of Churches television series "Seminary of the Air" and available on videotape from the AAAC: "Science and Religion," "Christian Ethics," "God the Creator," "God the Savior," and "God the Sanctifier"
Dr. George L.
Murphy
538
(330) 633-4376 (home) or (330) 836-9327 (office)
gmurphy@raex.com
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