ABSTRACT
It is exciting to live in revolutionary times. I had the privilege of finding myself on the firing line of one revolution, the dramatic renewal of the partnership between science and religion.
As a graduate student in the late 1960s at the University of Chicago, I treated natural science as a cultural phenomenon, as the driving force of the modern mind. Because the hermeneutical task involved contextualizing an ancient faith in the modern world, I found myself furthering the agendas of thinkers such as Paul Tillich, Langdon Gilkey, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Mircea Eliade and Paul Ricoeur. During the first decade of my university teaching, I gave special attention to the global ecological concerns of secular futurology in light of Christian concerns for eschatology and ethics, positing consonance and convergence regarding the exhortation to rescue the planet from human destruction.
