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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California
  • M.A., University of California, Riverside
  • Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary
  • B.S., University of Missouri

Biography

J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, 黑莓视频. He received a B. S. in physical chemistry from the University of Missouri, a Th.M. in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Riverside, and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California. He has spoken and debated on over 200 college campuses and taught in 500 or so churches around the world. In addition, he has authored, edited, or contributed papers to ninety-five books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus), Universals (惭肠骋颈濒濒-蚕耻别别苍鈥檚), Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge), The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, and Debating Christian Theism (Oxford.) He has also published over 85 articles in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, MetaPhilosophy, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, and Faith and Philosophy. Moreland was selected in August, 2016 by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.

Affiliations

  • National Executive Committee of the Society of Christian Philosophers
  • Alpha Chi Sigma (Chemical Honorary Fraternity)
  • Evangelical Theological Society
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Evangelical Philosophical Society
  • American Scientific Affilliation
  • Interdisciplinary Bibilical Research Institute
  • Society of Christian Philosophers
  • University Faculty for Life
  • National Advisory/Executive Committee of the Evangelical Philosophical Society

Awards

  • Fellow of the Center for the Renewal of Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, 1403 Third Ave. Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98101. (2000-present)
  • Winner of the Robert Fischer Faculty Member of the Year Award, 黑莓视频, (1998-99).
  • Winner of the Senior Class Professor of the Year, Talbot School of Theology, 黑莓视频, (1998-99).
  • Member of the Advisory Board for Philosophia Christi, (1999 to 2003).
  • Member of the Executive Committee for the Evangelical Philosophical Society (1999- 2003, 2006 to present).
  • Fellow of the Wilberforce Forum, 2001 to present.
  • Fellow of the 黑莓视频 Center for Christian Thought, 2012-2013.
  • Senior Fellow of the Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, 2013 to present.
  • Senior Fellow of the Institute of Faith, Work and Economics, Washington, D. C., 2008 to present.
  • Selected by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers: http://www.thebestschools.org/features/most-influential-livingphilosophers/ , August, 2016.
  • Member of Board of Directors, Center for Moral Apologetics, Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas, December, 2020 to present.

Publications

Books

  • 鈥淗ow Phenomenal Consciousness Provides Evidence for God,鈥 in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, edited by Timothy McGrew and Robert Steward (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2024).
  • 鈥淓pistemological Foundations of Charismatic Religious Experience,鈥 in Analytic Essays in Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology, edited by Joanna Leidnhag, Christopher Woznicki, and Andrew Everhart, (Eugene: Cascade, 2024).
  • Co-authored with Brandon Rickabaugh, The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming, 2023).
  • Co-authored with David Horner, Metaethics: Exploring Assumptions of Moral Reasoning (Nashville: Broadman & Hollman, forthcoming 2023).
  • Co-authored with Adam Groza, Unraveling Philosophy: An Interactive Guide (Nashville: Broadman & Hollman, 2023).
  • 鈥淣euroscience and the Metaphysics of Consciousness and the Soul,鈥 in Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science, edited by Angus, Menuge, Brian Krouse, and Robert J. Marks (Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, forthcoming 2023).
  • 鈥淧latonized Naturalism: A Bromide for Disenchanted Naturalists,鈥 in The Moral Argument for the Existence of God: A Collection, edited by John Hare and David Baggett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
  • 鈥淗ow Phenomenal Consciousness Provides Evidence for God鈥檚 Existence and Informs What it Means to Say God is a Spirit,鈥 in Ontology of Divinity, edited by Miroslaw Szatkowski (out for review, forthcoming 2023.)
  • 鈥淢odal Arguments for Generic Substance Dualism and Why the Soul Matters for Bioethics,鈥 in Taking Persons Seriously: Where Philosophy and Bioethics Intersect, edited by Mihretu Guta and Scott Rae (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications (forthcoming, 2023).
  • 鈥淪ubstance Dualism and the Idealism/Physicalism Debate,鈥 in The Routledge Handbook to Idealism and Immaterialism ed.by Joshua Farris and Benedikt Goecke (New York: Routledge, 2022), 631-41.

Journals

  • 鈥淭he Soul, ID Research, and a Science-Engaged Theology,鈥 The Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (forthcoming, 2023).
  • 鈥淎 Critical Assessment of Shafer-Landau鈥檚 Ethical Non-Naturalism,鈥 Religions (forthcoming, 2023).
  • 鈥淭he Modal Argument and a Rejoinder to Contingent Physicalism.鈥 TheoLogica (forthcoming, 2023).
  • 鈥淥n the Alleged Explanatory Impotence/Conceptual Vacuity of Substance Dualism," Ratio (forthcoming, 2023).
  • 鈥淢aking Precise Why a Naturalist Should Eschew Emergent Properties,鈥 Philosophy and Theology (forthcoming, 2023.)
  • 鈥淩esponding to a Potpourri of Objections to the Modal Argument,鈥 Journal of Consciousness Studies (forthcoming, 2203).
  • 鈥淎n Explanation and Defense of the Free-Thinking Argument,鈥 (with Timothy Stratton) Religions (2023).
  • 鈥淭he modal argument and Bailey鈥檚 contingent physicalism: a rejoinder,鈥 Religious Studies (forthcoming, 2023.)
  • 鈥淭he Epistemic Advantage of Lost Autographic Tokens of the Bible,鈥 Philosophia Christi 23:1 (2021):187-93.
  • 鈥淗ow Christian Philosophers can serve Systematic Theologians and Biblical Scholars,鈥 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 63:2 (2020): 281-90.
  • 鈥淭he Why and the What of Christian Worldview Integration,鈥 Journal of Faith and the Academy XIII (Spring 2020): 5-19.

Magazines

  • 鈥淚n the Morally Relevant Sense, It is Not a Woman鈥檚 Body,鈥 The Good Book Blog, Talbot School of Theology, 黑莓视频 (May 27, 2022):
    /blogs/good-book-blog/2022/in-the-morally-relevantsense-it-is-not-a-woman-s-body
  • 鈥淗ollywood Stars to the Rescue Again,鈥 posted at J. P. Moreland Website September 8, 2021.
  • 鈥淧roblems with Worldview-as-Glasses,鈥 posted at J. P. Moreland Website April 23, 2021.
  • 鈥淟etter to the Editor on Diversity of Opinion on American University Campuses,鈥 The Kansas City Star March 21, 2021.
  • 鈥淎nxiety and Depression in a COVID-19 World,鈥 Biola Resources: Health & Wellness April 2020). 
  • 鈥淟osin鈥 Our Religion One Person at a Time,鈥 Journey Christian Magazine (July/August, 2020).
  • 鈥淗ow J. P. Moreland Presents His Anxious Mind to God: Interview with Eric. L. Johnson,鈥 Christianity Today May 17, 2019: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/june/jpmoreland-finding-quiet-anxious-apologist.html.
  • 鈥淚nterview with Bart van den Dikkenberg on Scientism and Atheism,鈥 in Reformatorisch Dagblad (09/30/2019).
  • 鈥淭he Rise of Scientism,鈥 Talbot 3 (Summer 2019): 11-15.
  • 鈥淗ow J. P. Moreland Presented His Anxious Mind to God,鈥 interview with Eric L. Johnson in Christianity Today 63:5 (May 20, 2019): 74.
    https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/june/jp-moreland-finding-quiet-anxiousapologist.html

Presentations

  • 鈥淭he Soul, ID Research, and a Science-Engaged Theology,鈥 delivered at Cosmic Mind, Divine Action, and a Science-Engaged Theology, zoom conference, April 14, 2023.
  • 鈥淢iracles: Their Nature and Reality,鈥 and 鈥淯nderstanding the Root of Contemporary American Culture,鈥 delivered at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Palm Beach, Florida, October 28-29, 2022.
  • 鈥淔our Lectures on Thomistic Substance Dualism, Theological Anthropology, and Spiritual Formation,鈥 delivered at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forrest, NC, March 14-18, 2022.
  • 鈥淭heism and Artificial Intelligence: A Dialogue with Dr. Sadat Mansuri,鈥 zoom event at The Center for Theism and Science, Seminary of Qom, Qom, Iran, October 30, 2021.
  • 鈥淎 Case for Theism, zoom lecture to Apologetics Group, Romania, October 25, 2021.
  • 鈥淰ideo Interview on Philosophy and Worldview with Mark Connolly,鈥 on More Orthodoxy, London, May 11, 2020.
  • 鈥淗ow Christian Philosophers can serve Systematic Theologians and Biblical Scholars,鈥 and 鈥淪cience, Scientism and Christianity, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the ETS/EPS, San Diego, CA, November 21, 23, 2019.
  • 鈥淗ow to Move from Justifying Belief in God to Justifying Belief in Christianity,鈥 and 鈥淎nxiety and Depression: Biblical, Psychological and Neuroscientific Tools for Recovery,鈥 delivered at the Texas Baptist General Convention Conference on Apologetics, Port Noches, Texas, November 8-10, 2019.
  • 鈥淲hy Apologetics?,鈥 鈥淲hy Jesus?,鈥 鈥淐hristianity and Science,鈥 delivered at the Illuminati Conference, Sheldon, Washington, October 25-27, 2019.
  • 鈥淎ssessing the Contemporary Scene in Apologetics,鈥 and 鈥淭hree Crucial Concepts for Academic Integration,鈥 delivered at the Institute of Faith and the Academy, Faulkner University, Montgomery, Alabama, October 17-18, 2019.
  • 鈥淗abits and Character Formation,鈥 and 鈥淔our Practices for Defeating Anxiety,鈥 presented at the Online Rise Up Conference, September 6, 2019.
  • 鈥淎nxiety and Habit Formation, delivered at the Fall Faculty Conference, 黑莓视频, August 28, 2019.

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Spiritual Formation
  • Metaphysics

Books

The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Naturalism : A Critical Analysis (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)
To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview: Essays in Honor of Norman L. Geisler
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide
Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics
Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
Why I Am a Christian: Leading Thinkers Explain Why They Believe
In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Actions in History
Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Baker Reference Library)
Jesus Bajo Sospecha: Una Uespuesta a los Ataques Contra el Jesus Historico
Christian Perspectives on Being Human: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integration
The Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life
Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult: A Beginner's Guide to Life's Big Questions
Reclaiming The Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation In Postmodern Times
Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit's Power
Universals (Central Problems of Philosophy)
What is the Soul? Recovering Human Personhood in a Scientific Age
Three Views on Creation and Evolution
Universals, qualities, and quality-instances: A defense of realism
Playing God: Dissecting Biomedical Ethics and Manipulating the Body
The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue
Evangelical Apologetics
The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism
The God Question: An Invitation to a Life of Meaning (ConversantLife.com)
Consciousness and the Existence of God
A Summit Reader: Essays and Lectures in Honor of David Noebel's 70th Birthday
Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski & Michael Ruse in Dialogue
The God Conversation
Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity (Scaling the Secular City)
Readings in Christian Ethics: Issues and Applications (Readings in Christian Ethics)
Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality
Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings
The New Mormon Challenge
Biblical Authority and Conservative Perspectives: Viewpoints from Trinity Journal (Biblical Forum Series, Vol 1)
Opening the American Mind: The Integration of Biblical Truth in the Curriculum of the University (Liberty Series)
Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics
The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer
Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation
Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists & Atheists
Eldercare for the Christian Family: What to Do When a Loved One Becomes Dependent
Do the Right Thing
The Life and Death Debate
Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
Mere Creation; Science, Faith & Intelligent Design
The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science
The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters
A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ
Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology

Areas of Expertise for Media Interviews

  • Abortion
  • Apologetics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain Research
  • Creation
  • Death
  • Death Penalty
  • Ethics
  • Euthanasia
  • Evil
  • Evolution
  • Existence of God
  • Faith
  • God
  • Healing
  • Historical Jesus
  • Intelligent Design
  • Miracles
  • Moral Relativism
  • Neuroscience
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Physician-assisted Suicide
  • Postmodernism
  • Religion and Science
  • Resurrection
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • Suicide
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