Professional Experience

Full Professor of Religious Studies, Albion College, Fall 2012 – present

Coordinator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, Humanities and Arts Labs, 2014-2015

Chair, Religious Studies Department, Albion College, Spring 2008 – 2014

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Albion College, Fall 2007 – Spring 2012

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Albion College, Fall 2001 – Spring 2007

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Western Religions
• Introduction to Christian Thought
• Faith and Reason
• Philosophy of Religion
• Christian Ethics
• Liberation Theology
• Mysticism and Ecstasy
• Religion and Science
• Religion and Politics 

Publications

Books

• Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, translated, edited, and introduced with Dianne Guenin-Lelle (Paulist Press, 2012)
• The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon, translated, edited, and introduced with Dianne Guenin-Lelle (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Transcendental Arguments and Justified Christian Belief (University Press of America, 2005)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “Choosing to Believe,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (February 2008); reprinted in Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D.Z. Phillips, edited by Eugene Thomas Long and Patrick Horn (Springer Publishing, 2008)
• “Religiosity, Religious Doubt, and the Need for Cognition: Their Interactive Relationship with Life Satisfaction,” Journal of Happiness Studies (2006), co-author
• “Argumentative Justification and Religious Experience,” Journal of Religion (July 2005)
• “Proper Function and Justified Christian Belief,” Journal of Religion (October 2001)
• “Credibility and Warrant in Theology: An Epistemological Synthesis,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (May 2000)

Online Publications

• Response to “Justification and Truth, Relativism and Pragmatism: Reflections on Indian Philosophy and its Lessons for Religious Studies” by Dan Arnold.  The Religion & Culture Web Forum (November 2006).  The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.

Encyclopedia Articles

•  “Jeanne-Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon,” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 10, co-authored with Dianne Guenin-Lelle (De Gruyter, 2015)
• “Jeanne Guyon,” in Encyclopaedia Britannica, co-authored with Dianne Guenin-Lelle (2013)

Book Reviews

• Review of Joseph J. Godfrey’s Trust of People, Words, and God: A Route for Philosophy of Religion in The Journal of Religion (July 2015)
• Review of Robert McKim’s On Religious Diversity in The Journal of Religion (July 2014)
• Review of Angus Ritchie’s From Morality to Metaphysics: The Theistic Implications of our Ethical Commitments in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (March 2014)
• Review of Kevin Harrelson’s The Ontological Argument from Descartes to Hegel in Teaching Philosophy (June 2012)
• Review of Patricia Ward’s Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers in the Journal of Religion (July 2012)
• Review of Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley’s Knowledge of God in the Journal of Religion (October 2010)
• Review of Paul K. Moser’s The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology in the Journal of Religion (October 2009)
• Review of Stephen Davis’s Christian Philosophical Theology in the Journal of Religion (January 2008)
• Review of J. L. Schellenberg’s Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion in the Journal of Religion (January 2007)
• Review of William Rowe’s Can God Be Free? in the Journal of Religion (October 2005)
• Review of Paul Helm, Faith with Reason in the Journal of Religion (April 2002)
• Review of Sue Patterson, Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age in the Journal of Religion (April 2001)

Education

Ph.D.   University of Chicago, 2002 (Philosophy of Religion)

• Doctoral Dissertation: “The Knowledge of Necessity: Transcendental Arguments and Theological Method”
• Dissertation Committee: Franklin I. Gamwell (advisor), Paul J. Griffiths and David Tracy (readers)
• Doctoral Examinations:

1. Philosophy of Religion: Classical
2. Philosophy of Religion: Contemporary
3. Metaphysics and Religious Thought
4. Modern and Contemporary Religious Thought: Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century

M.A.    University of Chicago, 1995 (Divinity)

B.A.    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994 (Religious Studies)