Ronald Cole-Turner

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Cole-Turner holds the H. Parker Sharp professor of Theology and Ethics chair, a position relating theology and ethics to developments in science and technology. He is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ and active in the UCC Science and Technology Network. He is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion, currently serving as vice president. He has served on the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation and the Metanexus Institute. Cole-Turner is the author of The New Genesis: Theology and the Genetic Revolution, the co-author (with Brent Waters) of Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life, the editor of Human Cloning: Religious Responses and of Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity, the co-editor of God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning, and editor of Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification (in press). He is also the author of the popular baptism hymn, “Child of Blessing, Child of Promise.” He and his wife Rebecca have two daughters, Sarah and Rachel.

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This material expresses the research and opinion of Cole-Turner and is not necessarily the opinion of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary faculty, staff, or Board of Directors.

*H. Parker Sharp, attorney and philanthropist, was a graduate of PeaBody High School, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. By the end of his law career Sharp had attained the position of vice president and general counsel and board member at Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. Sharp served for 12 years on the Board of Directors at PTS, many of those years as chairman for the Finance Committee.