ABSTRACT

Robert John Russell or Bob, to use a more familiar form of address has been an active figure in the world of science and religion for about a quarter of a century. Bob is a scientist theologian and the style and content of his work has inevitably been influenced by the scientific context of his formation. In Bob's case this was physics, and much of his thinking might be classified under the rubric of quantum theology. Russell is internationally known and respected for the conferences he has organized in collaboration with George Coyne, SJ, of the Vatican Observatory, and for the carefully edited volumes that report their proceedings. It constitutes a major resource in the literature of science and theology. The frontier between the quantum domain and the classical domain is not a simple linear divide between small' and large', despite Planck's constant providing a natural scale for the definition of these terms.