Shaun Henson researches and teaches in Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. Church of England priest, he serves as Chaplain to St Hugh’s College, Oxford.  His academic interests are at the intersections of science, philosophy, and religion, teaching in areas like science and religion and Christian doctrine.  Henson has recently collaborated on a couple of international research projects, the first based at the London School of Economics investigating ‘God’s Order,  Man’s Order, and the Order of Nature’.  Another has just concluded called ‘Abraham’s Dice’, exploring the interplay of concepts of chance and providence in the major monotheistic religious traditions.  Shaun’s recent publications include God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), Academic Vocation in the Church and Academy Today: And With All of Your Mind (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), and ‘Throwing Dice? Thoughts of God in a Quantum World’ in Karl Giberson, ed. Abraham’s Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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