Dr. Michael L. Peterson
Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Michael L. Peterson is Professor of Philosophy of Religion.聽 He has written or been senior author in a number of books: Reason and Religious Belief聽(Oxford University Press; 5 editions);听God and Evil: An Introduction to the Issues听(贬补谤辫别谤颁辞濒濒颈苍蝉/奥别蝉迟惫颈别飞);听With All Your Mind: A Christian Philosophy of Education聽(University of Notre Dame Press);听Evil and the Christian God聽(Baker Books);听Philosophy of Education:聽 Issues and Options聽(InterVarsity Press);听Science, Evolution, and Religion: A Debate about Atheism and Theism聽(with Michael Ruse, Oxford University Press);听Biology, Religion, and Philosophy: An Introduction聽(Cambridge University Press); and聽C. S. Lewis and the Christian Worldview聽(Oxford). He has edited聽Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings聽(Oxford 5 editions);听Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion聽(Blackwell of Oxford, 2nd edition); and聽The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings聽(Notre Dame, now in 2nd听别诲颈迟颈辞苍). Monotheism, Suffering, and Evil (Cambridge, forthcoming). He is General Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell scholarly monograph series 鈥淓xploring Philosophy of Religion,鈥� which currently contains five books.聽 He is currently working on three books: Monotheism, Suffering, and Evil (Cambridge, forthcoming),聽Christian Theism and the Problem of Evil聽(Wiley-Blackwell Publishers of Oxford, forthcoming) and The Problem of Suffering in the Book of Job. Both of Dr. Peterson鈥檚 current Oxford books in philosophy of religion are long-time leading textbooks which are now in fifth editions. He is currently editing 鈥淭he Problems of God鈥� book series for Cambridge University Press, fifty volumes from experts on important issues and topics related to belief in God. He is currently coediting with Timothy Pawl聽The Cambridge Companion to Christology, a reference volume of the latest scholarship.
Dr. Peterson has contributed chapters to many reference books and scholarly works, including聽The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity: Contemporary Challenges, Global Responses;听The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology;听Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion;听The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy;听C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty;听The Continuing Relevance of Wesleyan Theology: Essays in Honor of Laurence W. Wood;听Philosophy and the Christian Worldview:聽 Analysis, Assessment, and Development;听Basketball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Paint; Handbook on Science and Religion;听The History of聽Evil (6 volumes); The Oxford Handbook of Atheism; and The Cambridge Handbook on Evolutionary Ethics,聽and the聽Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience (forthcoming).
Dr. Peterson has received both research grants and programmatic grants from various major foundations: 聽Lilly Endowment, Pew Charitable Trust, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Christian Scholarship.聽 Dr. Peterson launched and continues as the Managing Editor of the prestigious scholarly journal聽Faith and Philosophy, published at 香港期期最准的一肖 and now available free and open access worldwide at .聽 He has lectured widely and conducted a large number of seminars and workshops on topics in his areas of expertise.