Contributors
Contributors
Michael J. Behe is professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is one of the leaders in the intelligent design movement. His works include Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism.
Paul Copan is Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He has edited, with Paul K. Moser, The Rationality of Theism and, with Chad Meister, Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues. He has coauthored with William Lane Craig Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration, and has written works related to the philosophy of religion including True for You, But Not for Me and That’s Just Your Interpretation.
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology. One of the most widely published philosophers of religion of our day, he is the author of The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology, and God, Time, and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and the British Journal for Philosophy of Science.
Antony Flew is former professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford and the University of Reading. He was one of the most renowned atheists of the twentieth century, although he has since rejected atheism and now believes in some kind a grand designer of the universe. His many books include There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, God and Philosophy, and (coauthored with William Lane Craig) Does God Exist? The Craig-Flew Debate.
Gary R. Habermas is Distinguished Research Professor and chair of the department of philosophy and theology at Liberty University. He has written over one hundred articles and reviews, and dozens of books, including The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ, The Risen Jesus and Future Hope, and (with Antony Flew) Resurrected? An Atheist & Theist Dialogue.
Alister McGrath is professor of theology, ministry and education, and head of the Center for Theology, Religion and Culture at King’s College London, and president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He has published many books and articles on theology and science and specifically on topics related to the New Atheism, including The Dawkins Delusion, Dawkins’s God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World.
Scot McKnight is Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels, The Jesus Creed, Jesus and His Death, and (with James Dunn) The Historical Jesus in Current Study. He has also published widely in scholarly journals, and is regularly interviewed on national radio and television.
Chad Meister is director of philosophy at Bethel College and vice president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. His publications include Building Belief: Constructing Faith from the Ground Up, The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (coedited with Charles Taliaferro) and Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed (forthcoming).
Mark Mittelberg is a bestselling author, international speaker, and leading strategist and consultant in evangelism and apologetics. He is the author of Choosing Your Faith and Becoming a Contagious Church, the primary author of the recently updated Becoming a Contagious Christian training course, and contributing editor of The Journey: A Bible for the Spiritually Curious.
J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. He has authored, edited or contributed to thirty books, including Kingdom Triangle, Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, Universals, and Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide. He has also published over sixty articles in professional journals, including the American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Faith and Philosophy.
Paul K. Moser is professor and chair of philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Philosophy After Objectivity, Knowledge and Evidence, and Empirical Justification. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, A Priori Knowledge, Rationality in Action, Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge series), and The Elusive God, among other works. His articles have appeared in the American Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Analysis and Noûs, among other journals.
Michael J. Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, and chair of the philosophy department at Franklin and Marshall College. His books include Philosophy of Religion (with Michael Rea), and two edited volumes: Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (with Eleonore Stump) and Reason for the Hope Within. He has also published in numerous journals including Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the American Philosophical Quarterly.
Alvin Plantinga is John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has been called “the most important philosopher of religion now writing.” His many publications include God, Freedom and Evil, God and Other Minds, and Warranted Christian Belief.
John Polkinghorne is emeritus president of Queen’s College, Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Society and an Anglican priest. He has written numerous articles and authored/edited many books exploring the relationship between science and religion, including The Faith of a Physicist, Belief in God in an Age of Science, Science and the Trinity, and Exploring Reality.
Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. His books include Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion Since the Seventeenth Century, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Consciousness and the Mind of God. He has published papers in Religious Studies, Faith and Philosophy, the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Sophia, and elsewhere.
Jerry L. Walls is professor of philosophy of religion at Asbury Seminary. Among his books are Hell: The Logic of Damnation, Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy, and C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time. He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology.