John Dillenberger (1918–2008) was professor of historical theology at the

Graduate Theological Union The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates. Seven of the theological schools are located in Berkeley, California. The GTU was founded in 1962 ...

in Berkeley, California. He was instrumental in forming the Graduate Theological Union which he headed during its first decade, first as dean from 1964 to 1969 and then, from 1967 to 1972, as its first president, a post to which he returned in 1999–2000. He also served as president of Hartford Seminary, dean of the faculty at

San Francisco Theological Seminary The San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) is a seminary in San Anselmo, California with historic ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). SFTS became embedded in a new Graduate School of Theology of the University of Redlands in 2019. It was ...

, chair of the program in history and philosophy at

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, and as president of the

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. As a

historian of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

, Dillenberger specialized in the relations of religion and science. For three decades, his book ''Protestant Thought and Natural Science'' ( Doubleday, 1960) was a leading introductory survey. As an introductory survey, this book has been superseded by

Christopher B. Kaiser Christopher Barina Kaiser is a noted author and scholar, with doctorates in astrophysics (Harvard/University of Colorado) and Christian dogmatics (University of Edinburgh). His ''Creation and the History of Science'' (1991) received an outstanding ...

's ''Creation and the History of Science'' (

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, 1991).''Science and Religion in the English Speaking World, 1600-1727 A Bibliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature'', Richard S. Brooks & David K. Himrod,

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, 2001, , pp.101-102, 241

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