David Haines - Without Excuse: Scripture, Reason, and Presuppositional Apologetics

Without Excuse:

Scripture, Reason, and

Presuppositional Apologetics

Edited by

David Haines

Copyright 2020 The Davenant Press

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ISBN: 1-949716-03-1

ISBN-13: 978-1-949716-03-0

Cover design by Rachel Rosales, Orange Peal Design

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

J. T. Bridges (PhD, Southern Evangelical Seminary) is the Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Evangelical Seminary. Bridges current academic interests include: the philosophical theology of Thomas Aquinas, philosophy of science, and important issues subsumed under the philosophy of religion. He has authored a number of articles in the Christian Apologetics Journal . J.T. is married to Serena, with whom he has four children.

Travis J ames Campbell (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a history teacher at Deerfield-Windsor School in Albany, GA. He also serves as a ruling elder at Northgate Presbyterian Church.

Winfried Corduan (PhD, Rice University) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Taylor University. Winfried has published numerous articles and a dozen or so books, including Handmaid to Theology: An Essay in Philosophical Prolegomena , No Doubt About It: The Case for Christianity , In the Beginning God: A Fresh Look at the Case for Original Monotheism , and Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions . He is listed in Whos Who in America , and Performs folk music on StreetJelly.com on most Thursday nights at 9 pm Eastern.

John DePoe (PhD, University of Iowa) is the academic dean of the Schools of Logic and Rhetoric at Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Lubbock Texas. He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as Philosophia Christi , Ratio , and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion . He has also contributed to numerous collaborative books. He specializes in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion.

John R. Gilhooly (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the assistant professor of philosophy and theology, and director of the honors program, at Cedarville University. His doctoral dissertation, titled Angelic Assumption of the Body in Thomas Aquinas and Scripture, was a defense of Aquinass angelology. His research interests are the history of philosophy

(esp. medieval), the philosophy of religion (esp. the problem of evil), and the philosophy of love and sex (esp. gender and marriage).

Nathan Greeley (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is currently an adjunct professor of philosophy at Indiana Wesleyan University in the College of Adult and Professional Studies. His research interests include the relationship between faith and reason, and the history of natural theology and Christian apologetics, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

David Haines (PhD, Universit Laval) lives with his wife and their four children in Qubec. He is associate professor of philosophy and religion at Veritas International University, associate professor of ethics at Sminaire Baptiste vanglique du Qubec, and has taught history of Christian Apologetics at FTE-Acadia. He is also the founding president of Association Axiome, an association of French Evangelical scholars, and the Christian Philosophy and Apologetics Center. He has published a number of articles on natural theology and co-authored a book on natural law. His academic research focuses on ancient and medieval metaphysics, C. S. Lewis, Thomism, and natural theology.

Kurt Jaros (PhD in progress, University of Aberdeen) is the Executive Director of Defenders Media and host of the Veracity Hill podcast. He is currently a PhD student studying the doctrine of original sin in the writings of monks from southern France in the fifth and sixth centuries. He holds a Masters degree in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, and a Masters degree in Systematic Theology, from Kings College London. He currently resides in the suburbs of Chicago with his lovely wife and two daughters.

M. Dan Kemp ( PhD in progress, Baylor University ) has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from The King's College (NY) and an MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University. He currently lives in Waco, Texas with his wife and two children while he studies philosophy at Baylor University.

Bernard James Mauser (PhD, Marquette University) has written for various conservative think tanks, and he currently teaches at both Southern Evangelical Seminary and Liberty University. He was formerly a funded scholar at the Acton Institute. He is the author of a book on the Bible called Reading to Grow .

Joseph Minich (PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas) is a Teaching Fellow with The Davenant Institute. The founding editor of Ad Fontes , he is also the author of Enduring Divine Absence and the editor of several volumes with The Davenant Press. Currently, he is host of the Pilgrim Faith podcast and a regular contributor for Modern Reformation . He lives in Garland, Texas, with his wife and four children.

Andrew Payne (PhD in progress, Southern Evangelical Seminary) is a professor of philosophy at Mitchell Community College and is currently working on his Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion. His interests have largely centered on the relation between Scholastic natural theology and early Reformed thought, particularly the works of John Calvin and Francis Turretin.

Thomas Schultz (PhD ABD, Saint Louis University) is the Assistant Professor of Theology and Student Ministries at St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and the founding director of FaithReasons Institute.

Manfred Svensson (PhD, University of Munich) is Professor of Philo-sophy at the University of Los Andes, Santiago de Chile. His work is dedicated to the Augustinian tradition, to questions of continuity and discontinuity between medieval philosophy and the Protestant Reformation, and to contemporary authors like Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer and C. S. Lewis. He has great interest in rival understandings of toleration. He has authored numerous books in Spanish including Theorie und Praxis bei Augustin (Freiburg, 2009) and Reforma protestante y tradicin intelectual cristiana (Barcelona, 2016); and is the co-editor of the recently published Aquinas Among the Protestants .

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