Andrew Davison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Davison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Davison |
| SIGNATURE | DAVISON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0716-2080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Promise the Earth: A Safe Climate in Good Faith
Politicians and business leaders tell us that climate change can be solved with new technologies, but global emissions keep rising. Engineers show us technological options that could be deployed quickly, but there is no plan there to save us. We can no longer wait for solutions to climate change. To reduce our emissions quickly, we need to cut back on some aspects of modern life through inventive tweaks – and via restraint. Restraint is normal. I…
Looking “For What Is in Accordance with Nature”: Aquinas on Evolution and Speciation, in Response to Mariusz Tabaczek
Mariusz Tabaczek's Theistic Evolution offers a significant contribution to Thomistic thinking on evolution. This article nonetheless criticises its account of species and speciation. Biology challenges rigid species boundaries. Tabaczek's response – distinguishing “metaphysical” from “biological species” – risks separating metaphysical reality from empirical observation, weakening Thomist epistemological realism. The invocation of divine agency i…
At‐Least‐Potentially‐Non‐Contrastive Transcendence in Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology
Kathryn Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology is a foundational text in the expression of a 'non‐contrastive' Christian account of God and creation: that God is so fundamentally incommensurable with the world as not to be in a relation of contrast or competition, nor distant from it. In recent years, theologians have celebrated and drawn upon Tanner's work for its robust account of creaturely agency. While that is indeed found in her bo…
Contesting Computer Anthropologies
Tools are for the worker«: Machine Learning as an Instrumental Cause
Tools are for the worker
Angels and AI, Immortality and Heresy, Hierarchies and Love: Responses to Replies to Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine
The journal Theology and Science assembled a group of four academics to comment on Andrew Davison's 2023 monograph Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In this paper, the author responds to some of their observations, and suggests themes for further consideration
Participating in Cultural Witness
The creation of a Centre for Cultural Witness at Lambeth Palace, to serve the Church of England within an ecumenical partnership that already stretches across Europe, offers an opportune time to reflect upon the place-even the meaning-of "culture" in witness of the church. The analysis presented here identifies three senses in which that term might be applied to witness: as that from which the witness comes, that through which it comes, and that …
Temperance
Between 1830 and 1930 the temperance movement had an enormous political and social impact on industrialized societies in North America, the United Kingdom, its colonies (Australia and New Zealand in particular), and northern Europe. The history and impact of the movement has been extensively researched by historians, social historians, and anthropologists, but largely ignored by archaeologists and architectural historians. This chapter characteri…
Bars, Public Houses, and Saloons
Establishments selling alcohol for consumption on the premises were a feature of industrialized societies. Their origins lay in the European alehouse and tavern, but colonization and emigration took them to other parts of the world, notably Australasia and North America. Distinctive building types—the public house (‘pub’), bar, hotel, and saloon—emerged in a number of countries during the nineteenth century, combining social and communal function…
The Roots of Gratitude in Non-Human Cooperation
The Roots of Gratitude in Non-Human Cooperation
Science-Engaged Theology Comes to San Antonio: A Report from the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Meeting 2021
Religion, Climate Change, and Material Demand Reduction
The forthcoming COP26 Meeting in Glasgow (1–12 November 2021) is again reminding us of the urgent significance of climate change. As with the pivotal Paris meeting in 2015 (COP21), the role of reli
Science News for Theological Study: An Age of Reason
In recent months, an intellectual highlight for me has been reading Daniel W. Houck’s 2020 monograph Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution.1 At once detailed and fast-paced, it deal
Science News for Theological Study: Machine Learning Unravels the Protein Folding Knot
Back in November 2020, in the depths of Covid-19 lockdowns, news broke that must count as one of the the science and technology stories of the decade, perhaps even of the century. A machine learnin
Science News for Theological Study
Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci are the Muslim couple behind the remarkable COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech – Pfizer (BNT162b2). At a time when Islam is too often conflated with violent Islamism by prej
Machine Learning and Theological Traditions of Analogy
Progress in machine learning or artificial intelligence presents us with computer systems that exhibit properties at least in some way akin to aspects of human (or wider animal) cognition. In naming and thinking about these machine learning capacities, it would seem ill‐advised either to suggest simple equivalence with human faculties, or complete disjunction. A rich seam of theological writing on the subject of analogy offers a middle way, explo…
Theology, Philosophy and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Theology, Philosophy and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
All Creatures that on Earth Do Make a Dwelling: Ecological Niche Construction and the Ubiquity of Creaturely Making
All Creatures that on Earth Do Make a Dwelling
Christian Doctrine and Biological Mutualism: Some Explorations in Systematic and Philosophical Theology
Theologians are familiar with competitive relationships between organisms. Biology, however, also presents us with organisms engaged in mutually supportive relationships, in a pattern both widespread and often crucial for survival. This paper considers some of the challenges to traditional accounts of Christian doctrine—principally to creation, Christology and eschatology—posed by biological mutualism, especially in the phenomenon of compound org…
Biological Mutualism: A Scientific Survey
The role of close inter-species relationships has become clearer in contemporary biology than ever before, not least the importance of mutually beneficial interactions (mutualism). This paper surveys this area of science, presenting it for a non-specialist readership, as part of a journal edition assembling theological engagements with biological mutualism, as a provocation to interdisciplinary research between the natural sciences and the arts a…
Science News for Theological Study: Waking From Our Slumbers Concerning Sleep
This short column introduces a new and regular segment in Theology and Science, to draw attention to areas of science that seem to offer lively and often relatively unexplored opportunities for the
Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics
Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation'. In thinking about creation, it is the notion that everything comes from, and depends upon, God, inviting the language of sharing, or of an exemplar and its images; in thinking about redemption, it points to the restoration of that image, and is expressed in the language of communion with God and with the redeemed community. In this volume…
Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas: A Very Brief History
Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing over the Hellespont
Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the historically posited borders between "West" and "East," the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent inheritance – what it means to cross over a border – from the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has two parts. The first is an effort to work within the Western tradition to demonstrate its foundational and enduring, violent conc…
Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing over the Hellespont
Turkey, a "Secular" State? The Challenge of Description
Research Article| July 01 2003 Turkey, a “Secular” State? The Challenge of Description Andrew Davison Andrew Davison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 333–350. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Davison; Turkey, a “Secular” State? The Challenge of Description. South …
Secularization and modernization in Turkey: The ideas of Ziya Gökalp
The pupose of this essay is to re-evaluate the ideas of Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), the official ideologue of the Young Turk movement and holder of the first chair of sociology at Istanbul University (1912), whose significance within the history of secular political thought and practice in Turkey remains inadequately explored. Focusing on Gökalp's view of the relationship between nationalism, religion and modernity in the Turkish context, I offe bot…
Ziya Gokalp and Provincializing Europe
Secularization and modernization in Turkey: The ideas of Ziya Gökalp
The pupose of this essay is to re-evaluate the ideas of Ziya Gökalp (1876–1924), the official ideologue of the Young Turk movement and holder of the first chair of sociology at Istanbul University (1912), whose significance within the history of secular political thought and practice in Turkey remains inadequately explored. Focusing on Gökalp's view of the relationship between nationalism, religion and modernity in the Turkish context, I offe bot…
Books in review
Turkey, a "Secular" State? The Challenge of Description
Research Article| July 01 2003 Turkey, a “Secular” State? The Challenge of Description Andrew Davison Andrew Davison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (2-3): 333–350. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-2-3-333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Davison; Turkey, a “Secular” State? The Challenge of Description. South …
Ziya Gokalp and Provincializing Europe
The “Soft” Power of Hollywood Militainment: The Case of The West Wing 's Attack on Antalya, Turkey1
This essay examines the intermingling character of the “hard” powers of Washington, DC, and the “soft” powers of Hollywood militainment during the “war on terrorism” in the case of a fictitious terror attack in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey. This case remains unnoticed by observers, perhaps because the scene occurred very quickly. Through an analysis of the political circumstances of the drama, its script, and the real-world s…
Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing over the Hellespont
Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the historically posited borders between "West" and "East," the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent inheritance – what it means to cross over a border – from the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has two parts. The first is an effort to work within the Western tradition to demonstrate its foundational and enduring, violent conc…
Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing over the Hellespont
Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas: A Very Brief History
Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics
Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation'. In thinking about creation, it is the notion that everything comes from, and depends upon, God, inviting the language of sharing, or of an exemplar and its images; in thinking about redemption, it points to the restoration of that image, and is expressed in the language of communion with God and with the redeemed community. In this volume…
Theology, Philosophy and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Theology, Philosophy and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
All Creatures that on Earth Do Make a Dwelling: Ecological Niche Construction and the Ubiquity of Creaturely Making
All Creatures that on Earth Do Make a Dwelling
Christian Doctrine and Biological Mutualism: Some Explorations in Systematic and Philosophical Theology
Theologians are familiar with competitive relationships between organisms. Biology, however, also presents us with organisms engaged in mutually supportive relationships, in a pattern both widespread and often crucial for survival. This paper considers some of the challenges to traditional accounts of Christian doctrine—principally to creation, Christology and eschatology—posed by biological mutualism, especially in the phenomenon of compound org…
Biological Mutualism: A Scientific Survey
The role of close inter-species relationships has become clearer in contemporary biology than ever before, not least the importance of mutually beneficial interactions (mutualism). This paper surveys this area of science, presenting it for a non-specialist readership, as part of a journal edition assembling theological engagements with biological mutualism, as a provocation to interdisciplinary research between the natural sciences and the arts a…
Science News for Theological Study: Waking From Our Slumbers Concerning Sleep
This short column introduces a new and regular segment in Theology and Science, to draw attention to areas of science that seem to offer lively and often relatively unexplored opportunities for the
Religion, Climate Change, and Material Demand Reduction
The forthcoming COP26 Meeting in Glasgow (1–12 November 2021) is again reminding us of the urgent significance of climate change. As with the pivotal Paris meeting in 2015 (COP21), the role of reli
Science News for Theological Study: An Age of Reason
In recent months, an intellectual highlight for me has been reading Daniel W. Houck’s 2020 monograph Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution.1 At once detailed and fast-paced, it deal
Science News for Theological Study: Machine Learning Unravels the Protein Folding Knot
Back in November 2020, in the depths of Covid-19 lockdowns, news broke that must count as one of the the science and technology stories of the decade, perhaps even of the century. A machine learnin
Science News for Theological Study
Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci are the Muslim couple behind the remarkable COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech – Pfizer (BNT162b2). At a time when Islam is too often conflated with violent Islamism by prej
Machine Learning and Theological Traditions of Analogy
Progress in machine learning or artificial intelligence presents us with computer systems that exhibit properties at least in some way akin to aspects of human (or wider animal) cognition. In naming and thinking about these machine learning capacities, it would seem ill‐advised either to suggest simple equivalence with human faculties, or complete disjunction. A rich seam of theological writing on the subject of analogy offers a middle way, explo…
Temperance
Between 1830 and 1930 the temperance movement had an enormous political and social impact on industrialized societies in North America, the United Kingdom, its colonies (Australia and New Zealand in particular), and northern Europe. The history and impact of the movement has been extensively researched by historians, social historians, and anthropologists, but largely ignored by archaeologists and architectural historians. This chapter characteri…
Bars, Public Houses, and Saloons
Establishments selling alcohol for consumption on the premises were a feature of industrialized societies. Their origins lay in the European alehouse and tavern, but colonization and emigration took them to other parts of the world, notably Australasia and North America. Distinctive building types—the public house (‘pub’), bar, hotel, and saloon—emerged in a number of countries during the nineteenth century, combining social and communal function…
The Roots of Gratitude in Non-Human Cooperation
The Roots of Gratitude in Non-Human Cooperation
Science-Engaged Theology Comes to San Antonio: A Report from the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Meeting 2021
Participating in Cultural Witness
The creation of a Centre for Cultural Witness at Lambeth Palace, to serve the Church of England within an ecumenical partnership that already stretches across Europe, offers an opportune time to reflect upon the place-even the meaning-of "culture" in witness of the church. The analysis presented here identifies three senses in which that term might be applied to witness: as that from which the witness comes, that through which it comes, and that …
Contesting Computer Anthropologies
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