R. Douglas Geivett is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, and has been teaching at Biola since 1993.

Dr. Geivett's interests range over the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, epistemology, and the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of Evil and the Evidence for God and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology and In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History. Dr. Geivett has contributed chapters to God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion; God Under Fire; The Rationality of Theism; and Does God Exist? The Craig-Flew Debate. Dr. Geivett is the former president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. In the past, Dr. Geivett has served as minister to college students at churches in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern California and continues to speak in churches and on university campuses on subjects related to apologetics and the Christian life.

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Southern California
• M.A., Gonzaga University
• M.A., Dallas Theological Seminary
• B.S., Multnomah School of the Bible

Affiliations

• Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Society of Christian Philosophers
• American Philosophical Association
• Society for Philosophy of Religion
• American Academy of Religion

Awards and Honors

• Member of the Committee on the Status and Future of Philosophy for the American Philosophical Association
• Member of the executive committee of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Faculty Merit Award, Biola University. 1998
• Outstanding Service Award, Biola University. 1997
• International Who's Who of Professionals. 1995
• Dean's Fellowship, University of Southern California. 1985-89
• Outstanding Young Man of America. 1986
• Dean's Honor List, Eastern Washington University. 1980

Publications

Books

• Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology, co-edited with Brendan Sweetman, Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Evil and the Evidence for God: The Challenge of John Hick's Theodicy. Temple University Press, 1993.
• In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History, co-edited with Gary R. Habermas, InterVarsity Press, 1997.
• “The Evidential Value of Miracles” in In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History, ed. R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas. InterVarsity Press, 1997.
• “A Rejoinder to Flew's 'Presumption of Atheism',” in God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy
• “Does God Cause Suffering and Evil?” in God Under Fire, ed. Eric L. Johnson and Douglas S. Huffman. Zondervan/HarperCollins, 2003.
• “The Evidential Value of Religious Experience” in The Rationality of Theism, ed. Paul Copan and Paul Moser. Routledge, 2003.
• “Reflections on the Explanatory Power of Theism” in Does God Exist? The Craig-Flew Debate, ed. Stan W. Wallace. Ashgate Publishing, 2003.

Articles

• “John Hick's Approach to Religious Pluralism,” Proceedings of the Wheaton College Theology Conference 1 (Spring 1992): 39-55.
• “Philosophy and Theological Education,” Sundoulos (Fall 1993): 6-8.
• Entries on the ethics of A. J. Ayer (p. 71-72), Francis Bacon (p. 73), R. M. Hare (p. 368), G. E. Moore (pp. 560, 562), and on "Cognitivism/Noncognitivism" (pp. 164-65), "Egotist" (p. 251), "Metaethics" (pp. 554-55), "Revelation" (pp. 74647), and Immanuel Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (p. 318), for the volume Ready Reference: Ethics, ed. John K. Roth (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1994).
• Entries on American philosophers John Bascom, Francis Bowen for the American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
• “A Pascalian Rejoinder to the Presumption of Atheism,” in Journal for the Critical Study of Religion 2.2 (Fall/Winter 1997): 19-35.
• “Some Misgivings About Evangelical Inclusivism,” in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2. 2 (Summer 1998): 26-32.
• Guest editor for the special theme issue on "Jesus and the Academy" for Christian Scholar's Review 28.4 (Summer 1999).
• “Philosophy of Religion,” for the Dictionary of Christian Education, ed. Michael Anthony (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001).
• Entries on "Idealism," "Knowledge," "Ian T. Ramsey," "Paul Ricoeur," "Richard Swinburne," and "Nicholas Wolterstorff" for the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed., ed. Walter A. Elwell (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001).
• Entries on "A. C. Ewing" and "E. L. Mascall" for the Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Trevor Hart (Paternoster, 2001).
• “On the Evidence of Miracles and the Historicity of the Resurrection,” in Philosophia Christi (fall 2001): 401-408.
• “Plantinga's Externalism and the Terminus of Warrant-Based Epistemology,” co-authored with Greg Jesson, for a Symposium on Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief, in Philosophia Christi 2.3.2 (2001 ?): 329-40.
• “Divine Providence and the Openness of God: A Response to William Hasker,” in Philosophia Christi 2.4.2 (2002): 377-96.
• “Is 'Agent Reliabilism' Adequately Motivated?” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66.2 (March 2003): 444-450. NB: The published version of this article is mistakenly titled "Is 'Simple Reliabilism' Adequately Motivated?"

Professional Memberships

• Society of Christian Philosophers, 1984 to present
• American Philosophical Association, 1985 to present
• Evangelical Theological Society, 1987 to present
• Evangelical Philosophical Society, 1988 to present; Vice President, 1992-93; President, 1993-94; Executive Committee Member, 1999 to present
• Society for Philosophy of Religion, 1995 to present
• American Academy of Religion

Other Organizational Affiliations

• Member of the Advisory Board for the apologetics ministry Stand to Reason, 1995 to present
• Member of the Academic Advisory Council for the Focus on the Family Institute (Colorado Springs, CO), 1995 to present
• Member of the Board of Directors for the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, ed. Don King, 1995 to present
• Member of the Editorial Board for the journal Origins and Design, managing ed. Paul Nelson, 1995 to present

Resources

• Biola Faculty Page
• Geivett's CV Page