Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist who began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. He has a PhD from Warwick University in philosophy, degrees in theology from Oxford University and Durham University, and a physics degree from Durham University. He went freelance 10 years ago following the publication…
Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. In 2013–15, together with John Greco, she held a $3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility. Stump received a B.A. in classical languages from Grinnell College (1969), where…
Richard Granville Swinburne FBA is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He has been…
Venerable Dr. Yifa, PhD is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun, scholar, and writer. Ordained by the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order in 1979, Yifa holds a law degree from the Taiwan National University, a Master’s in Comparative Philosophy from the University of Hawaii and a doctorate in religious studies from Yale University. She served as a…
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen was Princeton Theological Seminary’s James I. McCord Professor of Theology and Science. He had a MA in philosophy from the South African University of Stellenbosch and PhD in philosophical theology from the Free University of Amsterdam. Ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and a native of that country,…
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…
Marcel Sarot is Research Professor for the History and Philosophy of Religious Studies and Theology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Marcel Sarot was also Professor of Fundamental Theology at Tilburg School of Catholic Theology (TST) of Tilburg University. He published extensively on the doctrine of God (and especially on divine impassibility), models of the…
Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, is a Jesuit priest, philosopher, physicist, educator, author, speaker, and retired President of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Spitzer is founder and currently active as President of Magis Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to public education concerning the complementary relationship among the varied disciplines of physics, philosophy, reason, and faith. He…
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…