Andrew P. Porter

Background

Andrew Porter was born on October 5, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the son of Phil, Jr., a priest, and Joan Porter.

Education

Andrew Porter's education is an extensive combination of applied science and religion. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Chemistry from Harvard College in 1968, a Master of Science in 1968 and a Doctor of Philosophy in applied science in 1976 at the University of California in Davis, and a Master of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1980. Porter also received a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 1991.

Career

After education, Andrew Porter started to work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was a physicist in Special Studies Group in 1968-1994, and now he is a physicist in Physics and Space Sciences Division. He also served as an instructor at the School for Deacons of the Episcopal Church in 1980-1987, Los Medanos College in 1992, and Las Positas College in 1996-1998. Additionally, Porter is an adjunct member of the theology faculty at the Graduate Theological Union since 1998 and an adjunct member of the philosophy faculty at the Dominican University since 2001.

Moreover, Andrew Porter is a writer. In addition to writing books, he is a contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals, including Faith and Philosophy and Budhi.

Achievements

• Andrew Porter is best known as an educator, physicist, and writer. He teaches for more than thirty years. As a writer, he is currently the author of more than five works.

Works

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  • In the Beginning, Exodus

    (How did the Bible come to be written? How did the Israeli...)

    2008
  • By the Waters of Naturalism

    (We are taught by our culture to think that for God to act...)

    2001
  • Unwelcome Good News

    (What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full ...)

    2004
  • Where Now, O Biologists, is Your Theory?

    (Intelligent Design creationism faults evolutionary biolog...)

    2006
  • Living In Spin

    (All the hard questions about human action are about what ...)

    2011
  • Elementary Monotheism 2001

Views

Quotations: "My motive for writing is the pleasure of a clear statement and a felt obligation to pass on what was given to me and is not already in the published literature."

Membership

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  American Academy of Religion , United States

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  Society of Christian Philosophers , United States

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  Mathematical Association of America , United States

Interests

• Teachers: Jim Vendettuoli, Edward Hobbs

• Writers

  Robin George Collingwood, Ernst Troeltsch, Helmut Richard Niebuhr

Connections

Father:

Phil Porter, Jr.

Mother:

Joan Porter

Joan Porter's maiden name was Peabody.