CONTRIBUTORS
Walter Bradley is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Baylor University, where he is developing a global poverty center to integrate appropriate technology (School of Engineering), social entrepreneurship (School of Business), and missions (Truett Seminary) to facilitate a holistic Christian ministry to the poor in developing countries. He came to Baylor from Texas A&M University where he was a highly successful professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, helping his department develop into one of the best in the nation. Additionally, during his twenty-four years at Texas A&M, Dr. Bradley served as director of the Polymer Technology Center, and received five College of Engineering research awards. He has received over $5 million in research grants and has published over 140 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings and fifteen book chapters, including six in the area of faith and science. He has also co-authored The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Materials and of the American Scientific Affiliation and serves as a consultant for many Fortune 500 companies.
William Lane Craig is a research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, before taking a doctorate in theology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. There, he was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for two years. Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Craig has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; God, Time, and Eternity; and Reasonable Faith, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy; New Testament Studies; American Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies; Philosophy; and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.
Paul M. Gould is a doctoral student in philosophy at Purdue University. He earned an MA in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Talbot School of Theology in December 2003. His research interests include metaphysics, philosophical theology, apologetics, and the integration of the Christian worldview within academia. His passion is to promote a robust and viable picture of the Christian world and life to the academy and the culture at large. Paul serves with Faculty Commons, the faculty ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, as an Academic Initiative field representative.
Robert Kaita is Principal Research Physicist in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at Princeton University. At PPPL, he is head of Plasma Diagnostic Operations for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). He is also Co-Principal Investigator for the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX). Both NSTX and LTX are devices for fusion energy development, and Dr. Kaita’s research focuses on the use of liquid metals as a “first-wall” material for fusion reactors. In the Plasma Physics Program of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, Dr. Kaita has supervised the research of nearly two dozen graduate students. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Princeton Graduate InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Dr. Kaita has nearly three hundred publications in nuclear and plasma physics. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Physics Society, a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, and a member and past president of the Princeton Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and adjunct professor of philosophy at the King’s College, New York, NY. His primary fields of interests are philosophy of religion, ethics, C. S. Lewis, and philosophy in literature. After graduating from Calvin College, he earned an MA and PhD from Fordham University before receiving a Sterling Fellowship at Yale. He has taught full time at Boston College since 1965. Dr. Kreeft is in wide demand as a speaker and is a frequent contributor to several Christian publications including First Things, Christianity Today, and Crisis. He is the author of fifty books on philosophy and apologetics, including Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal’s Pensees; Making Sense Out of Suffering; The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims; C. S. Lewis for the Third Millennium; Socrates Meets Jesus; Between Heaven and Hell; The Unaborted Socrates; The Best Things in Life; and Handbook of Christian Apologetics.
Habib Malik is Associate Professor of History and Cultural Studies at the Lebanese American University (Byblos campus) in Lebanon. He is also the only son of the late Lebanese philosopher, diplomat, and devout Christian, Charles H. Malik. Habib Malik graduated in 1985 from Harvard University with a PhD in modern European intellectual history. His own spiritual journey is one of the chapters in Kelly Monroe’s book, Finding God at Harvard. In addition to the university where he currently teaches, Dr. Malik has served on the faculties of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and the American University of Beirut (off-campus program). Dr. Malik was a visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in 1995 and 1996 and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in summer 2003. He divides his interests between the history of Western thought and the issues and problems of his ancestral home, Lebanon, and the Middle East at large—in particular the plight of native Christian communities, the future of freedom and democracy in Arab societies, and the challenges posed by Islamization. He is the author of Between Damascus and Jerusalem:Lebanon and Middle East Peace; Receiving Soren Kierkegaard: The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought; and he is editor of The Challenges of Human Rights: Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration. In addition, he has published many articles, essays, and book chapters, in both English and Arabic, on a variety of themes related to his interests. Finally, Dr. Malik is president and CEO of the Charles Malik Foundation, a nonprofit organization registered in the United States, and a founding member of Lebanon’s leading independent human rights NGO, the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights.
John North is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta, he has been Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (1971), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast (1981), and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (1983). At the University of Waterloo he was cofounder of the Pascal Lecture Series on Christianity and the University and recently received the Distinguished Teacher Award. His research interests are Victorian literature, children’s literature, literature and the Bible, and bibliography. In 2006 the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publication gave him the annual Award for Distinguished Achievement, citing his thirty-four-volume Waterloo Directory of English [& Irish, & Scottish] Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800–1900 as “one of the great feats of humanities scholarship in the modern era.” He has edited books on poetry and on computing in the humanities, a well as several volumes of the Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University, including Donald Mackay’s Science and the Quest for Meaning; Charles Malik’s A Christian Critique of the University; Malcolm Muggeridge’s The End of Christendom; Josef Pieper’s What is a Feast?; and Margaret Avison’s A Kind of Perseverance.