Ronald Cole-Turner

Ronald Cole-Turner is the H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, a position that relates theology and ethics to developments in science and technology. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Cole-Turner serves on the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation and on the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he recently co-chaired a two-year study of the ethical and religious implications of human germ line modification.

	What are the Moral Limits of Embryo and Stem Cell Research?
	No, Not Yet, Maybe, and Why Not: Protestant Ambivalence Or Moral Discretion?

Cole-Turner is the author of The New Genesis: Theology and the Genetic Revolution (1993) and co-author of Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life (1996), which was awarded a 1997 Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and Science from the John Templeton Foundation. He is the editor of Human Cloning: Religious Responses (1997) and of Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity (2001).