Articles

2015 Onwards

Shults, F. LeRon and Wesley J. Wildman. “Artificial Social Ethics: Simulating Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation.” Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Conference. San Diego, CA: The Society for Modeling & Simulation International, (2020): 1-11.

Saikou Y. Diallo, F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman. “Minding Morality: Ethical Artificial Societies for Public Policy Modeling.” AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Communication. (2020): 1-9.

Kate J. Stockly, Stephanie Arel, Megan K. DeFranza, Luke Matthews, Damian Ruck, and Wesley J. Wildman, “Women-centered rituals and levels of domestic violence: A cross-cultural examination of ritual as a signaling and solidarity-building strategy.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 14/1 (2020): 95-123.

Stephen A. Scaringe and Wesley J. Wildman, “Biological Mutualism: A Notable Advance and a Hint of Things to Come.” In Andrew Davison, ed. special issue of Theology and Science 18.2 (2020): 211-225.

“Axiological Landscape Theory: Integrating Aesthetics, Ethics, and Inquiry,” in Walter Gulick and Gary Slater, eds., American Aesthetics Today: Theory and Practice (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020): 139-156.

“The End of the Neville Era,” in Wesley J. Wildman, ed., Revisiting Robert Neville, special issue of American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (forthcoming, 2020).

F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Diallo, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, David Voas, “The Artificial Society Analytics Platform.” Chapter 42 in H. Verhagen et al., eds., Advances in Social Simulation, Springer Proceedings in Complexity (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020): 411-426.

F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Ann Taves, Ray Paloutzian, “What do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion.” Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion (https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12643, 2020): 1-21.

Khatera Alizada and Wesley J. Wildman, “Analyzing the Effectiveness of Anti-Child-Sex-Trafficking Policies Targeting Demand versus Supply Using Agent-Based Modeling.” Journal of Policy and Complex Systems 5/2 (Fall, 2019). doi: 10.18278/jpcs.5.2.7

“Love and Desire, Human and Divine: A Trans-Religious Naturalist Account,” in Jerry Martin, ed., Theology Without Walls (New York: Routledge, 2019).

Wesley J. Wildman and Jerry Martin, “Daunting Choices in Transreligious Theology: A Case Study,” in Jerry Martin, ed., Theology Without Walls (New York: Routledge, 2019).

Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction to Engaging Iain McGilchrist,” in Engaging Iain McGilchrist: Ascetical Practice, Brain Lateralization, and Philosophy of Mind, edited by Wesley J. Wildman and Sarah Coakley. A special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior 9.4 (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2019): 313-318.

Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Y. Diallo, F. LeRon Shults, “Introduction to Human Simulation.” In Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications, edited by Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, and Andreas Tolk (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019): ix-xiii.

Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, and F. LeRon Shults, “Human Simulation: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Solving Societal Problems.” In Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications, edited by Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, and Andreas Tolk (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019): 3-20.

F. LeRon Shults and Wesley J. Wildman, “Ethics, Computer Simulation, and the Future of Humanity.” In Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications, edited by Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, and Andreas Tolk (Cham, Switzerland Springer, 2019): 21-40.

Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, David Voas, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Y. Diallo, and F. LeRon Shults, “Minority Integration in a Western City: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach.” In Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications, edited by Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, and Andreas Tolk (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019): 181-192.

Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Diallo, “InCREDulous Scandinavians: An Agent-Based Model of the Spread of Secularism.” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (Piscataway, NJ: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018).

F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Virginia Dignum, “Ethics in Computer Modeling and Simulation,” Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (Piscataway, NJ: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018): 1-12.

F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Diallo, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, David Voas, “The Artificial Society Analytics Platform.” Proceedings of the 2018 European Social Simulation Association (2018): 1-12.

Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, and Paul A. Fishwick, “Teaching at the Intersection of Simulation and the Humanities,” in W. K. V. Chan, A. D’Ambrogio, G. Zacharewicz, N. Mustafee, G. Wainer, and E. Page, eds., Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (Piscataway, NJ: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017): 4162-4174.

Justin E. Lane, F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, “A Potential Explanation for Self-Radicalization.” Commentary on Harvey Whitehouse target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41/2 (2018).

F. LeRon Shults, Wesley J. Wildman, Justin E. Lane, Christopher Lynch, Saikou Y. Diallo, “Multiple Axialities: A computational model of the Axial Age.” In special issue on computer modeling and simulation in the scientific study of religion, ed. by F. LeRon Shults and Justin E. Lane, Journal of Cognition and Culture 18 (2018): 537-564.

Andreas Tolk, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, Saikou Y. Diallo, “Human Simulation as the Scientific Lingua Franca for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities: Potential and Pitfalls.” In special issue on computer modeling and simulation in the scientific study of religion, ed. by F. LeRon Shults and Justin E. Lane, Journal of Cognition and Culture 18 (2018): 462-482.

Patrick McNamara, Kendra Holt Moore, Yiannis Papelis, Saikou Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, “Virtual Reality-Enabled Treatment of Nightmares,” Dreaming 28/3 (2018): 205-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/drm0000088.

F. LeRon Shults, Ross Gore, Wesley J. Wildman, Christopher J. Lynch, Justin E. Lane, and Monica Duffy Toft. “A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups.” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 21/4 (2018): 1-24.

Brick Johnstone, Wesley J. Wildman, Dong Pil Yoon, Daniel Cohen, Jane Armor, Sean Lanigar, and Anna Wright, “Affect as a Foundational Psychological Process for Spirituality and Empathy.” Mental Health, Religion & Culture 21/4 (2018): 370-379.

F. LeRon Shults, Ross Gore, Carlos Lemos, and Wesley J. Wildman, “Why do the godless prosper? Modeling the cognitive and coalitional mechanisms that promote atheism.” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 10/3 (2018): 218-228.

F. LeRon Shults, Ross Gore, Wesley J. Wildman, Christopher Lynch, Justin E. Lane, and Monica Duffy Toft, “Mutually escalating religious violence: A generative model,” Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference (Dublin, Ireland: ESSA, 2017): 1-10.

Wesley J. Wildman and F. LeRon Shults, “Emergence: What does it mean and how is it relevant to computer engineering?” in Saurabh Mittal, Saikou Y. Diallo, and Andreas Tolk, eds., Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering: A Modeling and Simulation Approach (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2018): 21-34.

“Reforming Philosophy of Religion for the Modern Academy,” in Jim Kanaris, ed., Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2018): 253-269.

Ross Gore, Carlos Lemos, F. LeRon Shults, and Wesley J. Wildman, “Forecasting Changes in Religiosity and Existential Security with an Agent-Based Model,” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 21/1 (2018): 1-26.

Shults, F. LeRon, Justin E. Lane, Wesley J. Wildman, Saikou Diallo, Christopher J. Lynch and Ross Gore, “Modeling terror management theory: Computer simulations of the impact of mortality salience on religiosity” Religion, Brain & Behavior 8/1 (2018): 77-100.

Wesley J. Wildman and David Rohr, “North American Philosophers of Religion: How They See Their Field,” in Paul Draper and John Schellenberg, eds., Renewing Philosophy of Religion: Exploratory Essays (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017): 133-153.

F. LeRon Shults and Wesley J. Wildman, “Modeling Çatalhöyük: Simulating Religious Entanglement in a Neolithic Town,” in Ian Hodder, ed., Religion, History and Place in the Origin of Settled Life (Denver, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2018): 33-63
“Religious Naturalism: Oxymoronic Muddle or Future Spiritual Juggernaut,” in Shiva Khalili, Fraser Watts, and Harris Wiseman, eds., A 21st Century Debate on Science and Religion (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017): 52-71.

“Really Ultimate Reality,” Theology and Science 15/3 (2017): 260-265.

“Axiological Sensitivity,” in Chrostopher Lilley and Daniel J, Pedersen, eds., Human Origins and the Image of God: Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Compnay, 2017): 132-155.

“Reframing Transcendence: Ground-of-Being Theism and Religious Naturalism,” in Niels Gregersen and Mikael Stenmark, eds., Naturalism and Beyond: Theology and the Varieties of Naturalism (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2016): 124-150.

Joseph Bulbulia, Michael L. Spezio, Richard Sosis, and Wesley J. Wildman, “Editorial: Standards for Publishing in Religion, Brain & Behavior,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 6.4 (2016).

Jonathan Morgan; Dustin Clark; Yorghos Tripodis; Christopher S. Halloran; April Minsky; Wesley J. Wildman; Raymon Durso; Patrick McNamara, “Impacts of religious semantic priming on an intertemporal discounting task: Response time effects and neural correlates.” Neuropsychologia 89 (2016): 403-413.

Michael L. Spezio, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley J. Wildman, and Richard Sosis, “Editorial: Religion and Emotion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 6.3 (2016).

“Theology Without Walls: The Future of Trans-Religious Theology.” Open Theology 2 (2016): 242-247.

“Human Nature, Religion, and Theology,” in Augustín Fuentes and Aku Visala, eds., Conversations on Human Nature. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2016: 233-251.

Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Michael L. Spezio, “Editorial: What are the ‘Hilbert Problems’ in the Study of Religion?” Religion, Brain & Behavior 5.4 (2015): 263-265.

Michael L. Spezio, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley J. Wildman, and Richard Sosis, “Editorial: Religion, SCAN, and Developing Standards of Inquiry,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 5.3 (2015): 179-181.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, Michael L. Spezio, and Joseph Bulbulia,, “Editorial: The Emerging Psychology of Religion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 5.2 (2015): 89-90.

Wesley J. Wildman, “How to Resist Robert Neville’s Creatio Ex Nihilo Argument,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36/1 (2015): 56-64.

Richard Sosis and Wesley J. Wildman, “Editorial: At the Beginning of Year Five,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 5.1 (2015): 1-2.

2010-2014

Wesley J. Wildman, “Corrington’s Ecstatic Naturalism in Light of the Scientific Study of Religion.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 34/1 (2013): 3-16.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: Theoretical Neuroscience,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 4.3 (2014): 181-182.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 4.2 (2014): 91.

Richard Sosis, Wesley J. Wildman, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: Ethnography and Experiments in the Scientific Study of Religion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 4.1 (2014): 1-2.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Religious Naturalism: What It Can Be, and What It Need Not Be.” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 1/1 (2014): 36-58.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Corrington’s Ecstatic Naturalism and the Social Construction of Reality,” in Leon J. Niemoczynski and Nam Nguyen, eds., A Philospohy of Sacred Nature: Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014): 89-102.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: The Scientific Study of Religion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 3.3 (2013): 183-184.

Richard Sosis, Wesley J. Wildman, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: On the Naturalness of Religion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 3.2 (2013): 89-90.

Luke Joseph Matthews, Jeffrey Edmonds, Wesley J. Wildman, and Charles L. Nunn, “Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical Reformation,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 3.1 (2013): 3-15.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Spiritual Experiences; A Quantitative-Phenomenological Approach.” Journal of Empirical Theology 26 (2013): 139-164.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: Bio-Cultural Approaches to Social Forms,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 3.1 (2013): 1-2.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Comparative Natural Theology,” in Russell Re Manning, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 370-384.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models of Ultimate Reality,” in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013): 877-898.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Against Modeling: Negative Theology,” in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013): 761-767.

Wesley J. Wildman and Ian Cooley, “Neurotheology,” in James Beilby and Chad Meister, eds., The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (New York: Routledge, 2013): 821-837.

Richard Sosis, Wesley J. Wildman, and Patrick McNamara, “Editorial: A New Format: The Book Symposium,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 2/3 (2012): 181.

Richard Sosis, Wesley J. Wildman, and Patrick McNamara, “A New Format: The Book Symposium,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 2/3 (2012): 181.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Response to Amesbury, Knepper, and Schillbrack,” Sophia 51/2 (2012): 311-317.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “The Scientific Study of Atheism,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 2/2 (2012): 101-104.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Religious and Spiritual Experiences,” in Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, eds., Science and World Religions, Volume 2: Persons & Groups (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012): 91-119.

Wesley J. Wildman, John A. Darling, and Connor P. Wood, “Religion and Biological Evolution: How Well Do They Fit?” in Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, eds., Science and World Religions, Volume 3: Religions and Controversies (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012): 125-164.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “The Scientific Study of Atheism,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 2/1 (2012): 1-3.

Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara, “Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 1/3 (2011): 169-172.

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Religious Violence Project,” Boston University 2010-2011 Religion Fellows Program, published online (Boston: Boston University School of Theology, 2011).

Patrick McNamara, Richard Sosis, and Wesley J. Wildman, “The Scientific Study of Religion and the Humanities,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 1/2 (2011): 101-102.

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Artful Humanism of Don Browning,” Zygon 46/3 (September 2011): 698-712.

Wesley J. Wildman and Richard Sosis, “Stability of Groups with Costly Beliefs and Practices,” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14/3 (June 30, 2011).

Wesley J. Wildman, “Mark Johnston’s Naturalistic Account of God and Reality, Life and Death,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32/2 (May, 2011): 180-187.

Patrick McNamara, Richard Sosis, and Wesley J. Wildman, “Announcing a New Journal,” Religion, Brain & Behavior 1/1 (2011): 1-4.`

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Ambiguous Heritage and Perpetual Promise of Liberal Theology,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32/1 (2011): 43-61.

Wesley J. Wildman, “An Introduction to Relational Ontology,” in John Polkinghorne and John Zizioulas, eds. The Trinity and an Entangled World: Relationality in Physical Science and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010): 55-73. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and Patrick McNamara, “Evaluating Reliance on Narratives in the Scientific Study of Religious Experiences,” International Journal of Psychology of Religion (20/4, 2010): 223-254. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Distributed Identity: Human Beings as Walking, Thinking Ecologies in a Microbial World,” in Nancey Murphy, Martinez Hewlett, Christopher Knight, and J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, eds., Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Religion (forthcoming, 2010): 165-178. PDF

2005-2009

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Inevitability of Religion and the Wisdom of Cooperation with Science,” in Liu Xiaoting, ed., Essays in Science and Religion (in Chinese; forthcoming, 2010). PDF of English translation

Wesley J. Wildman, “Narnia’s Aslan, Earth’s Darwin, and Heaven’s God,” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (November, 2009). PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Keith Ward Answers the Big Questions: A Review Essay,” Reviews in Science and Religion (November, 2009).

Wesley J. Wildman, “Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action,” in F. LeRon Shults, Nancey Murphy, and Robert John Russell, eds., Philosophy, Science, and Divine Action , Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 141-189.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Cognitive Error and Contemplative Practices: The Cultivation of Discernment in Mind and Heart,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 29 (2009): 59-79. PDF

Nathaniel F. Barrett and Wesley J. Wildman, “Seeing is Believing? How Reinterpreting the Direct Realism of Perception as Dynamic Engagement Alters the Justificatory Force of Religious Experience,” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66/2 (2009): 71-86; published online December 17, 2008. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and Patrick McNamara, “Challenges Facing the Neurological Study of Religious Belief, Behavior and Experience,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 20/3 (2008): 212-242. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Hand in Glove: Evaluating the Fit between Method and Theology in van Huyssteen’s Interpretation of Human Uniqueness,” Zygon 43/2 (June, 2008): 475-491. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Import of Physical Cosmology for Philosophical Cosmology,” Theology and Science 6/2 (May 2008): 197-212. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Nature, God, Jesus, and Creativity,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 29/1 (January 2008): 44-60. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “From Law and Chance in Nature to Ultimate Reality,” in Fraser Watts, ed. Creation, Law, and Probability (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2008): 155-179. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Divine Action Project, 1998-2003,” in Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, and William R. Stoeger, S.J. (eds.), Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge and Progress (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007): 133-176.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Robert Cummings Neville,” for Encyclopedia of American Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2007). PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Basic Christological Distinctions,” Theology Today 64/3 (October 2007): 285-304. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Incongruous Goodness, Perilous Beauty, Disconcerting Truth: Ultimate Reality and Suffering In Nature,” in Nancey Murphy, Robert J. Russell, and William R. Stoeger, eds., Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007): 267-294. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Use and Meaning of the Word ‘Suffering’ in Relation to Nature,” in Nancey Murphy, Robert J. Russell, and William R. Stoeger, eds., Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007): 53-66. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Radical Embodiment and Theological Anthropology,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 28/3 (September, 2007): 346-363. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models of Ultimate Reality,” Philosophia 35/3-4 (2007): 407-425. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “From Grand Dreaming to Problem Solving,” guest editorial for Zygon 42/2 (June, 2007): 277-80. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Significance of the Evolution of Religious Belief and Behavior for Religious Studies and Theology,” commentary and analysis essay for Patrick McNamara, ed., Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain : 227-272. Vol. 1 of Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion , 3 vols. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006). PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Rational Theory Building: Beyond Modern Enthusiasm and Postmodern Refusal (A Pragmatist Philosophical Offering),” in LeRon Shults, ed., The Evolution of Rationality (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006): 30-46. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Ground-of-Being Theologies,” in Philip Clayton, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 612-632. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Comparative Natural Theology,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 27/2&3 (May/September, 2006): 173-90. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Comparing Religious Ideas: There’s Method in the Mob’s Madness,” in Thomas Athanasius Indinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, and James Constantine Hanges, eds., Comparing Religions: Possibilities and Perils? ; Numen History of Religion Series (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006): 77-113. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Robert John Russell’s Theology of God’s Action,” in Ted Peters and Nathan Hallanger, eds., God’s Action in Nature’s World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006): 147-169. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Inevitability of Religion and the Wisdom of Cooperation with Science” (in Chinese), Scientific Culture Review (2005). PDF of English Translation

Wesley J. Wildman, “When Narrative Identities Clash: Liberals versus Evangelicals,” Congregations (Fall 2005): 28-37. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Resilience of Religion in Secular Social Environments: A Pragmatic Philosophical Analysis Regarding Scientific and Religion Problems” (in Chinese), Studies in Dialectics of Nature 20/12 (December 2004): 79-84.

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Resilience of Religion in Secular Social Environments: A Pragmatic Analysis,” in Thomas M. Schmidt and Michael G. Parker, eds., Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief: Science and Religion in Philosophical and Public Discourse (Frankfurt: Mohr-Sieback, 2005): 58-80.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Global Spiritual Confusion and the Neglected Problem of Excess ‘Spiritual Information’,” in Charles L. Harper, Jr., ed., Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives (Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005): 33-38. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Further Reflections on the Divine Action Project,” Theology and Science 3/1 (March, 2005): 71-83. PDF

2000-2004

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Divine Action Project, 1988-2003,” Theology and Science 2/1 (April, 2004): 31-75. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Resilience of Religion in Secular Social Environments: A Pragmatic Philosophical Analysis Regarding Scientific and Religious Problems” (in Chinese), Studies in Dialectics of Nature 12/20 (2004): 79-84. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Neville’s Systematic Theology of Symbolic Engagement,” lead essay for Amos Yong and Peter Heltzel, eds., Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville (T. & T. Clark International, 2004): 3-27.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Consciousness Expanded,” in B. V. Sreekantan and Sangeetha Menon, eds., Consciousness and Genetics: A Discussion (Bangalore, India: National Institute of Advanced Studies, 2002): 125-41. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Slipping into Horror,” in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 84/1-2 (Spring/Summer, 2001): 143-55. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Theological Literacy: Problem and Promise,” in Rodney Peterson, ed., Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2001): 335-51. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The State of Science-and-Religion Research at the Turn of the Century,” The Journal of Faith and Science Exchange 4 (2000): 1-14. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, Editor and Team Leader, “Suggestions for Further Reading,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 237-323. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “On the Process of the Project During the Third Year,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 227-35. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville, “On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 203-17. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 171-201. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 145-169. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction,” in Neville, ed., Religious Truth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 1-6. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, Editor and Team Leader, “Suggestions for Further Reading,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 275-337. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “On the Process of the Project During the Second Year,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 261-74. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville, “How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 211-36. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “On Comparing Religious Ideas,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 187-210. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 151-85. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction,” in Neville, ed., Ultimate Realities (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 1-8. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, Editor and Team Leader, “Suggestions for Further Reading,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 287-307. Translated into Portuguese in A Condicao Humana : 398-424. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “On the Process of the Project During the First Year,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 267-86. Translated into Portuguese in A Condicao Humana : 367-95. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 175-235. Translated into Portuguese as “Hipoteses Comparativas: Categorias cosmologicas para a condicao humana” in A Condicao Humana : 245-328. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “On Comparing Religious Ideas,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 9-20. Translated into Portuguese as “Sobre O Comparar Ideias Religiosas” in A Condicao Humana : 45-60. PDF

Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction,” in Neville, ed., The Human Condition (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000): 1-7. Translated into Portuguese as Prefacio in A Condicao Humana : 37-44. PDF

1995-1999

Wesley J. Wildman and Leslie A. Brothers, “A Neuropsychological Semiotic Model of Religious Experiences,” in Robert John Russell, et al., eds., Neurosciences and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999): 348-416. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Use and Abuse of Biotechnology: A Modified Natural-Law Approach,” in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 20/2 (May, 1999): 165-79.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Strategic Mechanisms within Religious Symbol Systems,” in Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts, eds., Metaphor and God-talk , Religions and Discourse series, James Francis, Gen. Ed., vol. 2 (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999): 273-91. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action,” in Robert John Russell, et al., eds., Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory and Berkeley: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1998): 117-150. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “A Theological Challenge: Coordinating Biological, Social, and Religious Visions of Humanity,” Zygon 33/4 (December, 1998): 571-97. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “Pinning Down the Crisis in Contemporary Christology,” in Dialog (Winter, 1997): 15-21. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “In Praise of Loneliness,” in Leroy Rouner, ed., Loneliness , Institute for Philosophy and Religion Series (University of Notre Dame Press: 1998): 15-39.

Wesley J. Wildman, “The Quest for Harmony: An Interpretation of Contemporary Theology and Science,” in Mark Richardson and Wesley Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 1996): 41-60. PDF

W. Mark Richardson and Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction to Part III: Dialogue,” in Richardson and Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 1996): 170-79. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and W. Mark Richardson, “Introduction to Part II: Method,” in Richardson and Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 1996): 84-92. PDF

W. Mark Richardson and Wesley J. Wildman, “Introduction to Part I: History,” in Richardson and Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 1996): 2-6. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and W. Mark Richardson, “General Introduction,” in Richardson and Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 1996): xi-xx. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman, “But Consciousness Isn’t Everything,” in CrossCurrents 46/2 (Summer, 1996): 215-20. PDF

Wesley J. Wildman and Robert John Russell, “Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction with Philosophical Reflections,” in Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, and Arthur R. Peacocke (eds.), Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory; Berkeley: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1995): 49-90. PDF

1991-1994

Wesley J. Wildman, “Similarities and Differences in the Practice of Science and Theology,” in CTNS Bulletin 14.4 (Fall, 1994): 1-14.

Wesley J. Wildman, “From the World to God? An Assessment of George Ellis’s Before the Beginning: Creation Explained , in CTNS Bulletin 14.2 (Spring, 1994): 18-21.

Wesley J. Wildman, “Bridging Theology and Science in the Seminary: Who Really Cares?” CTNS Bulletin 11.3 (Summer, 1991): 1-5.