Presbyterian minister (Church of
Scotland), recently
retired ( in June 2008) as
Chaplain to Heriot-Watt
University,
Edinburgh,
Scotland.
This
included
lecturing
in
Philosophy
of
Science
and
Religion
and
also
Moral
and
Social
Philosophy.
(The
Philosophy
of Science and
Religion
module
was
one of the year 2001's
CTNS
Course Winners -
$10,000
award. A
further
$2,000
was
awarded the
following
year
because it had been
constantly
updated.)
[CTNS
(Center for
Theology and
the
Natural Sciences, based
in
Berkeley - Univcrsity of California) is
funded by
the Templeton
Foundation and awards
annual
prizes
for
good
courses
in Science and
Religion.]
Also he is still visiting lecturer at Glasgow's International
Christian
College,
(ICC) -
teaching:
The
Christian
Faith and
Contempory
Thought; Ethics
in
Crisis
and also
Christianity
and
Modern Science
also he taught in 2008 at the
Faith Mission
Bible College, Edinburgh where he ran a
class considering
Ethics
in Crisis, which is
the same course that he
teaches
at
ICC. He
sometimes taught
'Western
Religion,
Philosophy
and
Science'
at
a university
in Shanghai,
China. He was a joint tutor
in 'The
Philosphy
of
Science
and
Theology'
in Edinburgh
University's
Office
of
Life
Long
Learning.
Former convenor of the Church of Scotland's
Apologetics
Committee.
Author, and joint author of several small books/booklets.
Previously minister at St
David's
Knightswood
Parish
Church,
Glasgow
and
before
that minister of
Innellan
&
Toward
Churches in
Argyll
His ministry began in Malawi,
Africa
where he was ordained
and then served for ten
years
as a
minister
of African
Congregations as
well as a Theological and African
language
teacher
(Chichewa).
Earlier he had taught Maths at a University
College
in
Malawi.
His degrees are from Nottingham, Edinburgh
and
Aberdeen
Universities.
He is married to Eleanor who
herself, before
they met,
was a missionary teacher in Malawi.
They have
three
grown-up
sons:
Douglas
married to Amelia; Keith
-
married to Nina;
and
Ian divorced - from
Katherine;
and seven
grandchildren:
Ruth
(daughter of
Douglas and
Amelia),
Angelo,
Stephen,
Isabelle,
with
Joseph,
(children
of
Keith and
Nina), and
Anna with
Samuel -
children of
Ian and
his
former wife
-
Katherine.
A reasonable and
relevant
faith that makes
sense of, and
gives
hope
for,
our
beautiful but
troubled
modern
world.
If you have comments or suggestions, please
e-mail Howard
Taylor
at HowardTaylor1944@live.co.uk
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