The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), a GTU affiliate, is a global leader in facilitating and promoting the crucial dialogue between religion and science. Incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 1982, CTNS finds the GTU?s diverse, engaged community to be the perfect setting to bridge divides.
CTNS promotes the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences. The CTNS mission is carried out through three program areas: research, teaching and public service. The central scientific focus of these programs is on physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and genetics, with additional topics in the neurosciences, technology, the environmental sciences, and mathematics. The central theological focus is on Christian theology, ethics and spirituality, with additional attention to the theological issues arising from the engagement between the sciences and world religions.