Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie (BA, MDiv, MSc, PhD) | The University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Theology and Science

School of Divinity

Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 8903
Email: sarah.laneritchie@ed.ac.uk

Street: School of Divinity
Mound Place
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH1 2LX

Biography

Background

I work at the intersection of theology and the sciences, and am particularly involved with questions surrounding the human mind, the relationship between God and the physical world, divine action, the phenomenology and cognitive development of religious belief, and the complex ways in which scientific research can play a role in constructive theological scholarship. Current research interests also include theistic naturalisms, epistemology and psychology of religious intuition, the neuropsychology of religious experience, and the cognitive science of belief formation.

CV

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Qualifications

BA (Major: Philosophy and Religion, Minors: Biology and Psychology): Spring Arbor University, 2008

MDiv: Princeton Theological Seminary, 2012

MSc (Science and Religion): University of Edinburgh, 2014

PhD (Science and Religion): University of Edinburgh, 2017

Responsibilities & affiliations

Council Member of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT)

Research

Research activities

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Publications

Wait, but why? Challenging the intuitive force of substance dualism (15 pages) 14 Apr 2021 In: Scientia et Fides, vol. 9, pp. 241-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2021.009
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Integrated physicality and the absence of God: Spiritual technologies in theological context (18 pages) 11 Feb 2021 In: Modern Theology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12684
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
20th and 21st century Protestant voices on nature and science 1 Oct 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567680457.ch-014
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
Mind and matter: Panpsychism and its alternatives (9 pages) 14 Jul 2020 In: Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, vol. 7, pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2020-0002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)
[Review of] N. D. Cartwright and J. S. K. Ward, eds., Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature and [Review of] T. M. Crisp, S. L. Porter and G. A. Ten Elshof, eds., Neuroscience and the Soul: The Human Person in Philosophy, Science and Theology 1 Jan 2020 In: Modern Believing, vol. 61, pp. 55-58
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)
Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create (5 pages) 19 Aug 2019 In: Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, vol. 6, pp. 108-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2019-0010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published)
Divine Action and the Human Mind (384 pages) 25 Jul 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108568609
Research output: › Book (Published)
The divine action 'problem'? An Eastern Orthodox challenge to science and theology 10 Jan 2019
Research output: › Chapter (Published)
Magnets, magic, and other anomalies: In defense of methodological naturalism Dec 2018 In: Zygon, vol. 53, pp. 1064-1093
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12473
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The physicalized mind and the gut-brain axis: Taking mental health out of our heads Jun 2018 In: Zygon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12404
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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This article was published on 27 Mar, 2022