Theodore Walker

Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Society, Theology and the Sciences

Email

twalker@smu.edu

Phone

214-768-2446

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1983; B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976

Teaching Specialties

  • Christian Ethics in Social Context (MT 6300) 
  • Martin and Malcolm and Theological Ethics (MT 8385)  
  • African-American Liberation Theology (ST 8345, with Karen Baker-Fletcher) 
  • Theology and Science Concentration
  • God and Creation (ST 8359, course and original content created by Karen Baker-Fletcher)  
  • Contemporary Moral Issues (MT 8352) 
  • Issues in Science and Theology (TC 8360)  
  • Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Religion, including AI (TC 8308)
  • Process Theology and Christian Thought (ST 8365) 

 

Selected Publications

:: 251-page archival edition of The Origin of Man’s Ethical Behavior (1941) by Ernest Everett Just & Hedwig Schnetzler Just:
A Moorland-Spingarn archival transcription created by Theodore Walker Jr. and Lillie R. Jenkins, with additional co-editing by biochemist W. Malcolm Byrnes, in consultation with cell biologist Stuart Newman, historian of science Kenneth R. Manning, historian of religions Charles H. Long, and Moorland-Spingarn curator of manuscripts Joellen ElBashir, July 2020.  

:: The Big Bang and God: An Astro-Theology - wherein an astronomer and a theologian offer a study of interdisciplinary convergences with natural theology both in the scientific researches of Sir Fred Hoyle and in the philosophical researches of Charles Hartshorne and Alfred North Whitehead, thereby illustrating a constructive postmodern trend. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; edited by Alexander F. Vishio) by Theodore Walker Jr. and Chandra Wickramasinghe. 

:: Mothership Connections: A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology (State University of New York Press, 2004).

:: Empower the People: Social Ethics for the African-American Church (Orbis, 1991).

:: “Interdisciplinary Convergences with Biology and Ethics via Cell Biologist Ernest Everett Just and Astrobiologist Sir Fred Hoyle,” a chapter in Panentheism and Panpsychism … (Verlag; Brill, November 2019), edited by Godehard Brüntrup, Benedikt Paul Göcke and Ludwig Jaskolla.

:: “Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology,” a chapter in Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (Fordham University Press, 2016), edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein.

:: “Neoclassical Cosmology and Menas Kafatos’s ‘Cosmos and Quantum: Frontiers for the Future’” originally in the scientific Journal of Cosmology (v3, Dec 2009); reprinted as a chapter in Quantum Physics of Consciousness (Cosmology Science Publishers, 2011), edited by Subhash Kak, Sir Roger Penrose, and Stuart Hameroff.