Who's Who in America
55th edition, 2001
ROLSTON, HOLMES, III, theologian,
educator, philosopher; b. Staunton, Va., Nov.
19, 1932; s. Holmes and Mary Winifred
(Long) R.; m. Jane Irving Wilson, June 1,
1956; children: Shonny Hunter, Giles
Campbell. BS, Davidson Coll., 1953;
BD, Union Theol. Sem., Richmond, Va.,
1956; MA in Philosophy of Sci., U.
Pitts., 1968; PhD in Theology, U.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1958. Ordained to
ministry Presbyn. Ch. (USA), 1956.
Asst. prof. philosophy Colo. State
U., Ft. Collins, 1968-71, assoc. prof.,
1971-76, prof., 1976-; vis. scholar,
Ctr. Study of World Religions, Harvard U.,
1974-75; official observer UNCED, Rio de
Janiero, 1992. Author: Religious
Inquiry--Participation and Deachment, 1985,
Philosophy Gone Wild, 1986, Science and
Religion: A Critical Survey, 1987,
Environmental Ethics, 1988, Conserving
Natural Value, 1994, Genes, Genesis and God,
1999; assoc. editor Environ. Ethics, 1979-;
mem. editorial bd. Oxford Series in Environ.
Philosophy and Pub. Policy, Zygon: Jour. of
Religion and Sci.; contbr. chpts. to books,
articles to profl. jours. Recipient
Oliver P. Penock Disting. Svc, award Colo.
State U., 1983, Coll. award for Excellence,
1991, Univ. Disting. Prof., 1992; Disting.
Russell fellow Grad. Theol. Union, 1991,
Disting. Lectr., Chinese Acad. of Social
Scis., 1991, Disting. Lectr., Nobel Conf.
XXVII, Gifford Lectr., U. Edinburgh, 1997.
Mem. AAAS, Am. Acad. Religion, Soc. Bibl.
Lit. (pres. Rocky Mountain-Gt. Plains
region), Am. Philos. Assn., Internat. Soc.
for Environ. Ethics (pres. 1989-94), Phi Beta
Kappa. Avocation: bryology.
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