Faculty Awards and Accomplishments: August 2024

• Dr. Robert Lloyd, Dean for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Executive Director of the LeMieux Center for Public Policy, was interviewed by WPBF 25 on the upcoming election. Dr. Lloyd says this is uncharted territory, but America has the system in place to handle it. “Our founders created a system in which we would have the structures and institutions to deal with tremendous amounts of change,” Dr. Lloyd said. “Our systems have held, and it will hold through this one. We’ll get through this.” Watch the interview here.
• Dr. Elizabeth Stice, Associate Professor of History and Fellow for Faculty Communication and Development, has a chapter in the recently published book “New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land.” Her chapter is titled “Empire and Harrow’s ‘Epic of War:’ British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War.” Read the book here.
• Christine Fink and Kathy Stauffer attended and presented at JAM, the annual meeting for the Jenzabar community. Their topic was “AD2RE: Ready, Set, Go!” which highlighted a major project to automate the flow of student records from Slate to Jenzabar particularly Student Information. The conference was attended by seven PBA staff and ran from May 29 – June 1.
• Dr. Paul Copan, Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics, School of Ministry, was on a sabbatical in England; he was a Visiting Scholar at Oriel College (University of Oxford) from January through June 2024. He was able to complete several book-writing and editing projects as well as articles and book chapters:
  • Book-Writing and Editing:
    • Coedited with Michael Reardon, “Transformed into the Same Image: Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification” (IVP Academic), which will be released in November. Find the book here.
    • Coedited with Stewart Kelly, “Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics’ Toughest Objections” (Wipf & Stock, 2025).
    • Coedited with Chris Date (nearing completion), “What Is Hell? A Multidisciplinary Evangelical Dialogue” (IVP Academic).
    • Authored a book on just war (to be translated into Ukrainian): “Just War, Jesus, and the War in Ukraine” (Lublin, Poland: Christian Open Academy, 2025).

• Articles/book chapters:
  • Wrote several chapters for a third edition of the book “True for You, But Not for Me” (Bethany House Publishers).
  • “Towards an Evangelical Doctrine of Deification” (With Michael Reardon). “Transformed into the Same Image”: Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification,” eds. Copan and Reardon (IVP Academic).
  • “‘Slavery’ in the Bible” in “Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics’ Toughest Questions,” eds. Copan and Kelly (Wipf & Stock).
  • “‘Genocide’ in the Bible” in “Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics’ Toughest Questions,” eds. Copan and Kelly (Wipf & Stock).
  • (With Mikhail Abakumov), “Why Jesus Could Not Be an Absolute Pacifist: Harmonizing the Portrayal of God in the Old and New Testaments,” published in Ukrainian (Lublin, Poland: Christian Open Academy)
  • “The Moral Argument and the Problem of Evil,” in “The Moral Argument,” eds. David Baggett and John Hare. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • “Arguments for God” in “The Existence of God? Contemporary Positions and Approaches” (published in Russian under the title: Существование Бога? Современные позиции и подходы»  editor Evgeniy Loginov.

Dr. Copan also had the following speaking engagements while in the UK:

• “Is It Rational To Believe in God?” debate with Stephen Woodford, Canford School, Bournemouth, England, January 12, 2024.
• “The Naturalists Are Declaring the Glory of God,” 3rd Annual Michael Green Memorial Lecture, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, UK, February 8, 2024.
• Work-in-Progress Seminar: “The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument,” Oriel College, Oxford, UK, February 21, 2024.
• Trinity Forum, “The New Theism and the Old Morality,” Trinity Forum, McKenna Room, Christ Church, University of Oxford. Hosted by Cambridge philosopher James Orr, May 1, 2024.
• Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU), “Is the God of the Old Testament Really Good?”  Exeter Cohen Quad, Oxford: Oxford Big Questions Series, May 10, 2024 (https://www.oiccu.org/copy-of-what-s-on-1).
• Lecture: “Do We Have Moral Facts?” Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, Oxford, UK, May 15, 2024.
• “Difficult Old Testament Passages concerning Women,” Israel Bible College (Zoom class with Prof. Sisi Soref), May 29, 2024.
• “Goodness without God? Why Theism Makes Better Sense of Morality Than Naturalism,” Metaphysical Club, Oriel College, Oxford, June 4, 2024.
• “Genesis 1-2 in Contemporary Context” and “Christian Integrity,” Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, held at St. Ebbe’s Church, Oxford, June 13, 2024.
• Two lectures on Christian philosophical integration in theology and other disciplines: Cambridge Fellows Programme, Round Church, Cambridge, June 15, 2024 (https://formingachristianmind.org/)
• Plenary Lecture (Philosophy of Religion), “The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument for God: A Contradiction in Terms?” Tyndale Fellowship, Hoddesdon, July 2024.

In early July, Dr. Copan became the Chair of the UK-based Tyndale Fellowship Philosophy of Religion Study Group: https://www.tyndalefellowship.org/philosophy-of-religion-programme