Huston Cummings Smith was a religious studies scholar in the United States. His book The World’s Religions has sold over two million copies and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion. He was a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Syracuse University. Smith studied at Central Methodist University and the University of Chicago. He…
Robert Lloyd Saucy was an American Biblical scholar and professor of systematic theology. Saucy was educated at George Fox College (1949–51) and Westmont College (1951–53), earning his AB in history. He went on to earn both his ThM (1958) and ThD (1961) in Systematic Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. While completing his graduate studies at…
Chris Southgate is a trained research biochemist and a Senior Lecturer of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, where he also works as a Research Fellow in Theology. His main fields of study are the science-religion debate, ecotheology and environmental ethics. Southgate’s research and teaching won him a Templeton Award, and he has…
Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College. Plantinga is widely known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics. He is the author…
David Shatz is the Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought at Yeshiva University and editor of The Torah u-Madda Journal, a journal devoted to the interaction between Judaism and general culture. Shatz has edited, co-edited, or authored fifteen books and has published over eighty articles and reviews, dealing with both…
After nearly two decades dedicated primarily to university management and administration—most recently serving as Dean of the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology—Marcel is now relishing the opportunity to refocus on teaching and research. With a background in analytical philosophy and over 25 years of experience working in ecumenical settings, he brings a wealth of insight…
Arthur Hyman was a Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University. He was Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School and taught philosophy at Yeshiva University for 40 years. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yale University, Columbia University, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Hyman’s books and articles on medieval Jewish philosophy have…
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…
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…
Brian Leftow is the William P. Alston Professor for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University. He was formerly the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oriel College, Oxford, succeeding Richard Swinburne, who retired in 2002. Leftow’s scholarship focuses on philosophical theology and metaphysics, such as the relationship between God and…
Ernan McMullin was a philosopher who last served as the O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He was an internationally-respected philosopher of science who has written and lectured extensively on subjects ranging from the relationship between cosmology and theology, to the role of values in understanding science, to the impact…
Oliver D. Crisp holds the Chair of Analytic Theology in the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology in the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Previously, he taught at Fuller Theological Seminary (2011-2019) in Los Angeles, and the University of Bristol (2006-2011) in England. He specializes in philosophical, systematic, and historical theology. He received a PhD…