Alister Edgar McGrath FRSA is an Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, and Christian apologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Science and Religion and Emeritus Fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford: a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in…
Nancey Murphy is an American philosopher and theologian who is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the BA from Creighton University in philosophy and psychology, a PhD from University of California, Berkeley in philosophy of science, and a ThD from the Graduate Theological Union. Murphy’s research interests focus on…
Yujin Nagasawa is the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and received his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). Before his tenure at the University of…
Stephen Law is an English philosopher who is the Director of the Certificate in Higher and Education and Director of Philosophy at The Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. He is also…
Subhash Kak is Regents Professor of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, Kak was educated in various places in Jammu and Kashmir. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During 1975-1976, he was a visiting faculty at Imperial College, London, and a…
David Hunt was a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Whittier College in Whittier, CA. He earned a BA from Pomona College and a PhD from Vanderbilt University. His academic interests included Ancient and Early Medieval Philosophy (especially Plato, Plotinus, and Augustine), Metaphysics, Action Theory, and the Philosophy of Religion. Hunt…
Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. She graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and obtained a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading University prior to two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge University. She…
Paul Stuart Fiddes is a British Baptist theologian. He is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford and was formerly Principal of Regent’s Park College and Chairman of the Theology Faculty. He has been described as “one of the leading contemporary Baptist theologians”, “one of the leading scholars of theology and literature writing…
The Revd Dr. Rodney Holder was Course Director of the Faraday Institute from its inception in 2006 until 2013, and remains a Bye Fellow of St. Edmund’s College and a Faraday Associate. Holder read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and researched for a DPhil in astrophysics at Christ Church, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for…
Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist. He was most recently Professor Emeritus at Tufts University. Dennett was a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett was referred to as one of…
Matthews Grant is an Associate Professor in the Deparment of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his BA from Wake Forest University, and an MA and a PhD in Philosophy from Fordham University. Grant is the Associate Editor of Book Reviews for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, the…
Thomas Flint is a retired Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he focuses on issues in philosophical theology and metaphysics. His book, Divine Providence, makes the case for a Molinist account of God’s knowledge—i.e., God has so-called “middle knowledge” of what free agents would do in any circumstance—thereby reconciling divine foreknowledge…