Theological Influences:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Paul Tillich
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Scientific Influences:
association with David Deutsch
a cosmological theory from Frank Tipler
later adapted by Frank Tipler into the Omega Point Theory, which is a specific cosmological theory about the future of the universe
Frank Tipler
1994 Frank Tipler publishes The Physics of Immortality (1994) describing the Omega Point Theory