The Center for Applied Christian
Ethics is co-sponsoring this event
with the Science Division
"Global Climate Change: A Faithful Response"
Panel Discussion
Dr. Duane Litfin is now serving in his fourteenth
year as Wheaton College's seventh president. He holds an undergraduate
degree in biblical studies and a master's degree in theology. His
two doctorates are from Purdue University (Ph.D., Communication) and
Oxford University (D.Phil., New Testament).
He came to Wheaton from Memphis, Tennessee where he served the First
Evangelical Church as Senior Pastor. Prior to that he spent a decade
as an Associate Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dr. Litfin is the author of several books, most recently Conceiving
the Christian College (Eerdmans, 2004), and his writings have appeared
in numerous journals and periodicals.
Dr. Douglas Allen grew up in Wheaton, where he attended Wheaton Central
High School before
entering Wheaton College, graduating with a B.S. in physics in 1991.
Dr. Allen went to
Iowa State for his PhD and studied atmospheric physics with Prof.
John Stanford. His first postdoc
was at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he examined transport
of volcanic ash clouds in
the upper troposphere. His second postdoc was at the University of
Chicago where helped develop
models of transport processes in the stratosphere. From 2001-2005
he worked as a research
physicist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC, developing
computer code for the Navy's
global weather model and analyzing satellite data of the Earth's atmosphere.
Dr. Allen is in his
second year of teaching physics and astronomy at Dordt College in
Sioux Center, IA. While at
University of Chicago he taught two astronomy courses as an adjunct
at Wheaton College, and
last summer he taught astronomy at Wheaton's Black Hills Science Station.
Dr. Allen is married to
Wheaton graduate Ruth (Gosling) Allen and they have three sons.
Dr. Doug
Allen, Resource Recommendations:
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
US Climate Change Science
Program
"Overview
of the Climate Change Issue" by Sir John Houghton
Dr.
Kristen Page is and Associate Professor of Biology at Wheaton College.
She is a disease ecologist with particular interest in disease transmission
across human-altered landscapes. Her research primarily focuses
on the transmission dynamics of a zoonotic parasite of raccoons; however,
due to her involvement with the Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR)
program at Wheaton, she has developed an interest in the effects of
environmental degradation on the perpetuation of diseases in the global
south. Dr. Page received her PhD from Purdue University's Department
of Forestry and Natural Resources.
Dr. Kristen Page, Resource Recommendations:
Loving
Our Neighbors: Responsibility in the Created World by Dr. Kristen
Page, May 2005 (pdf)
P.
J. Hill is Professor of Economics at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
and a Senior Fellow at PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
in Bozeman, Montana. He is the co-author, with Terry L. Anderson and
Douglass North of Growth and Welfare in the American Past, with Terry
Anderson of The Birth of a Transfer Society, and also with Terry Anderson
of The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. He
has also authored numerous articles on the theory of property rights
and institutional change and has edited six books on environmental
economics. His undergraduate degree is from Montana State and his
PhD from the University of Chicago. P.J. grew up in eastern
Montana on a cattle ranch that he operated with his family until 1992,
when he sold the ranch and bought a smaller ranch in western Montana
that he continues to operate.
Dr. P.J. Hill, Resource Recommendations:
Copenhagen Consensus
2004 Study
Noah Toly is Director of Urban Studies and Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations.
Prior to joining the faculty at Wheaton, he served as Policy Fellow at the Center for Energy and
Environmental Policy in the University of Delaware's School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. He has
published a number of articles and book chapters on climate and environmental justice, focusing on urban
vulnerability and responsibility as well as on international agreements.
Two of his articles,
"Changing the Climate of Christian Internationalism" (Brandywine Review of Faith and International Affairs)
and "Climate Change and Climate Change Policy as Human Sacrifice: Artifice, Idolatry, and Environment
in a Technological Society" (Christian Scholar's Review), engage these topics from an explicitly Christian
perspective.
Dr. Noah
Toly, Resource Recommendations:
Climate
Change and Climate Change Policy as Human Sacrifice: Artifice, Idolatry,
and Environment in a Technological Society by Dr. Noah Toly
(pdf)
Changing
the Climate of Christian Internationalism: Global Warming and Human
Suffering
By Noah J. Toly (pdf)
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