Contributors
Contributors
Toni Allen (D.Min. philosophy and culture [ABD], Talbot School of Theology) is adjunct professor of philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College and the United States Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. She earned her M.A. in philosophy of religion and ethics from Talbot School of Theology. She is the director of Thought Life Ministries, LLC—a ministry devoted to teaching women to love God noetically by helping them to develop a well-formed thought life. She enjoys speaking, writing, and producing social media. She resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband Jay and twin children, John and Zoe.
Paul Copan (Ph.D. philosophy, Marquette University) is professor and Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University (West Palm Beach, Florida). In addition to writing popular-level apologetic books such as Is God a Moral Monster? Understanding the Old Testament God (Baker), he is coauthor (with William Lane Craig) of Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration (Baker Academic). He is coeditor (with Paul K. Moser) of The Rationality of Theism (Routledge), as well as the coeditor (both with Chad V. Meister) of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Routledge) and Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues (Blackwell). He has coedited Passionate Conviction and Contending with Christianity's Critics (B&H Academic) with William Lane Craig and coedited the Apologetics Study Bible (B&H Academic). He has authored and edited several other books and contributed essays and written reviews for journals such as The Review of Metaphysics, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, and Trinity Journal. He lives with his wife Jacqueline and their six children in West Palm Beach, Florida.
William Lane Craig (Ph.D. philosophy, University of Birmingham; D.Theol., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology (La Mirada, California). Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has authored or edited more than 30 books, including Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Crossway); The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Macmillan); Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (Brill); Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (Clarendon); God, Time, and Eternity (Kluwer); and Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity (Routledge, forthcoming). Craig is also the author of more than 100 articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, British Journal for Philosophy of Science, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Michael H. Edens (Ph.D. theology, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) recently returned to the USA after living and teaching in the Middle East for 27 years. He is professor of theology and Islamic Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Matthew Flannagan (Ph.D. theology, University of Otago) is an independent scholar based in Auckland, New Zealand. His areas of expertise include divine command meta-ethics, applied ethics, bio-ethics, Old Testament ethics, philosophy of religion, critical thinking, and apologetics. He has contributed essays to various books, including Old Testament "Holy War" and Christian Morality: Perspectives and Prospects, edited by Paul Copan, Jeremy Evans, and Heath Thomas (InterVarsity Press), and In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture, edited by Steven B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder (B&H Academic). He has written journal articles, engaged in debates, and presented papers at annual meetings of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Mark W. Foreman (Ph.D. philosophy, University of Virginia) is professor of philosophy and religion at Liberty University, where he has taught philosophy, apologetics, and bioethics for more than 20 years. He is the author of Christianity and Bioethics (College Press [reprint Wipf and Stock]), Prelude to Philosophy: Critical Thinking about Basic Beliefs (InterVarsity Press, forthcoming), and How Do We Know: A Short Introduction to the Issues of Knowledge (with James K. Dew Jr., InterVarsity Press, forthcoming). He has also contributed articles to the Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics (Harvest House) as well as chapters for Steven Spielberg and Philosophy (with David Baggett, University of Kentucky Press) and Tennis and Philosophy (University of Kentucky Press).
Gregory Ganssle (Ph.D. philosophy, Syracuse University) is a senior fellow at the Rivendell Institute. He has been a part-time lecturer in philosophy at Yale University. Greg has authored and edited several books, including God and Time: Essays on the Nature of God (Oxford), God and Time: Four Views (InterVarsity Press), Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy (InterVarsity Press), and A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Baylor University Press). His main areas of interest have been contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, particularly God's relation to time, the problem of evil, metaphysics, and the history of early modern philosophy.
Gary R. Habermas (Ph.D., Michigan State University) has authored, coauthored, or edited some 35 books, of which 18 center on various aspects of the resurrection of Jesus. These include Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? (Harper & Row) and The Risen Jesus and Future Hope (Rowman & Littlefield). Other topics concern religious doubt, personal suffering, and near-death experiences. He has also contributed more than 60 chapters and essays to additional books, plus more than 100 articles and reviews in journals and other publications. In recent years, he has been a visiting or adjunct professor at about 15 different graduate schools and seminaries in the United States and other countries. He is currently distinguished research professor of apologetics and philosophy, as well as chair of the Department of Philosophy, at Liberty University, where he has taught since 1981. His primary teaching responsibility is in Liberty's Ph.D. program in theology and apologetics.
Richard S. Hess (Ph.D. Old Testament, Hebrew Union College) is professor of Old Testament and semitic languages at Denver Seminary. He has authored eight books, including volumes on religion (Israelite Religions: A Biblical and Archaeological Survey), ancient Near Eastern subjects (Amarna Personal Names and Names in the Study of Biblical History), Genesis (Studies in the Personal Names of Genesis 1–11), and commentaries on Leviticus, Joshua, and the Song of Songs. He has edited 13 books, most recently collections of studies on War in the Bible and Terrorism in the 21st Century, Issues in Bible Translation, and The Family in the Bible; and commentaries on the Septuagint texts of Genesis and Joshua. In addition to several hundred book reviews and dictionary articles, Dr. Hess has published more than 100 scholarly articles in collected essays and journals such as Biblica, Biblical Archaeologist, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Themelios, Tyndale Bulletin, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Current research projects include commentaries on the books of Genesis and Kings, an introduction to the Old Testament, Hebrew grammar, and the study of ancient Near Eastern texts related to the Old Testament.
Craig S. Keener (Ph.D. New Testament, Duke University) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Prior to this, he was professor of New Testament at Palmer Theological Seminary. He is author of more than 100 articles and 15 books, including three award-winning commentaries. Together, his books have sold more than half a million copies. The most relevant of his books to this project is The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Eerdmans). He is married to Dr. Medine Moussounga Keener, from Congo, Central Africa.
Michael Licona (Ph.D. New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria) serves as external research collaborator at North-West University (Potchefstroom). Mike was interviewed by Lee Strobel in his book The Case for the Real Jesus and appeared in Strobel's video The Case for Christ. He is the author of numerous books including The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (IVP Academic, 2010), and Paul Meets Muhammad (Baker, 2006), coauthor with Gary Habermas of the award-winning book The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Kregel, 2004), and coeditor with William Dembski of Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Science (Baker, 2010). Mike is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Society of Biblical Literature. He has spoken on more than 50 university campuses, and has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs.
J. P. Moreland (Ph.D. philosophy, University of California-Riverside) is distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California. He has authored, edited, or contributed papers to 35 books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus), Universals (McGill-Queen's), Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge), and Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (Blackwell). He has also published more than 80 articles in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, and Faith and Philosophy.
Barbara B. Pemberton (Ph.D. world religions, Baylor University) is associate professor at Ouachita Baptist University, where she is the director of the Carl Goodson Honors Program. She has contributed to the Apologetics Study Bible and is a frequent conference speaker.
E. Randolph Richards (Ph.D. New Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the professor of biblical studies and dean of the School of Ministry at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He has written two major monographs (The Secretary in the Letters of Paul, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/42; and Paul and First Century Letter Writing, InterVarsity Press) and coauthored two others (The Story of Israel: a Biblical Theology and Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His Life and Work [both with InterVarsity Press]). He has published dozens of articles. His most recent projects include (Mis)Reading Scripture with Western Eyes, with Brandon O'Brien (InterVarsity Press, forthcoming); "Reading, Writing, and the Production and Transmission of Manuscripts," in The Background of the New Testament: An Examination of the Context of Early Christianity, ed. Joel B. Green and Lee Martin McDonald (Baker, forthcoming); "Pauline Prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary Convention" in Christian Origins and Classical Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament, ed. Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts, Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 1 (Brill); "(Mis)Reading Paul's Letters through Western Eyes," in Paul as Missionary: His Identity, Activity, Theology and Practice, ed. Trevor Burke, LNTS (formerly JSNTS) 420 (T & T Clark); "Flattery, Favors and Obligations: Patrons and Clients in Greco-Roman Culture," The Biblical Illustrator; and various articles in The Baker Handbook for the Bible, ed. J. Daniel Hays and J. Scott Duvall (Baker Academic), and in The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ed. Tremper Longman (Baker Academic). He also serves as the teaching pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Mary Jo Sharp (M.A. Christian apologetics, Biola University) is the founder of Confident Christianity Apologetics Ministry. She is a visiting professor at Oklahoma Baptist University and is a debater (on Islam and Christianity) and experienced speaker in apologetics. Mary Jo's book on implementing the study of apologetics in women's ministries is forthcoming with Kregel Publishers. She is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the Evangelical Theological Society. She is a certified apologetics instructor with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Robert B. Stewart (Ph.D. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of philosophy and theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he is Greer-Heard Professor of Faith and Culture. He is editor of The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright in Dialogue (Fortress and SPCK), Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue (Fortress), The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue (Fortress and SPCK), and Memories of Jesus: A Critical Appraisal of James D. G. Dunn's Jesus Remembered (B&H Academic). He is the author of The Quest of the Hermeneutical Jesus: The Impact of Hermeneutics on the Jesus Research of John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright (University Press of America). A contributor to the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity and the Revised Holman Bible Dictionary, he has published articles or book reviews in numerous journals.