Curriculum Vitae

Randal Rauser

Taylor Seminary

11525 23 Ave.,

Edmonton, AB

Canada T6J 4T3 -

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

TAYLOR SEMINARY:

(2007-Present) Associate Professor of Historical Theology

(2003-2007) Assistant Professor of Historical Theology

BRIERCREST COLLEGE:

(2002-2003) Assistant Professor of Philosophy

(1 Year Sabbatical Replacement Position)

ACADEMIC HISTORY

EDUCATION

1999-2003 PhD, King’s College, London

Dissertation: “Trinity, Mind and World: A Theological Epistemology of Mediation”

Supervisor: Prof. Colin Gunton

1996-1999 MCS, Regent College, Vancouver, GPA 3.824

Major: Interdisciplinary Christian Studies

Thesis: “Contraception and the Catholic Church: An Enquiry”

Supervisor: Prof. Edwin Hui

1993-1996 BA, Trinity Western University, GPA 3.52

Double Major: English and Intercultural Religious Studies

Graduated with Distinction

AREAS OF SPECIALITY

Trinitarian Theology

Theological Epistemology and Theological Method

Christian Worldview

Apologetics

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

Under Contract: Everyday Saints: Listening to Voices from the Past, 100-1500, coauthor Kelly Kapic (Zondervan)

Under Contract: Everyday Saints: Listening to Voices from the Past, 1500-Today, coauthor Kelly Kapic (Zondervan)

2011: From Angels to Zeus: Apologetics on one long conversation (Biblica)

2011: You’re Not as Crazy as I Think: Dialogue in a world of loud voices and hardened opinions (Biblic

2009: Theology in Search of Foundations (Oxford University Press)

Reviews: Reviews in Religion and Theology (forthcoming), Expository Times (forthcoming)

2009: Finding God in The Shack: Conversations on an Unforgettable Weekend (Paternoster)

Translations: Portuguese

Reviews: Library Reviews, Paragraph Farmer, Zoeincarnate, The Ooze, TreeSwing Reviews, Krellfish, Challies.com, The Good Book Stall, Reader Views, The Phantom Tollbooth, Cornhusker Academy, Frontstreet Reviews, Midwest Book Review and Book Reporter

2008: Faith Lacking Understanding: Theology Through a Glass Darkly, Faith in an Emerging Culture Series (Paternoster)

Reviews: Evangelical Quarterly, Religious Studies Review, Evangelicals Now, Reviews in Religion and Theology and Theology Forum

2006: Christian Philosophy A to Z, coauthor with Daniel Hill (Edinburgh University Press)

Reviews: Ars Disputandi

2001: Let Reason Be Your Guide? A Brief Introduction to Reformed Epistemology, RTSF Monographs (Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship)

PUBLISHED TEACHING CURRICULUM

2003: Introduction to Theology: Part I (Briercrest Distance Learning)

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2009: “Let Nothing Live That Has Breath: On the Problem of Divinely Commanded Genocide,” Philosophia Christi

2009: “Learning in War Time? Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s ‘The Truth Project™,” Christian Scholar’s Review

2008: “Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What to Do When Christianity Looks Ridiculous,” The Other Journal (online journal) URL: http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=294

2006: “Ecumenism, Eucharist, and an Antirealism We Can Live With,” Canadian Evangelical Review, 23-41.

2005: “Rahner’s Rule: An Emperor Without Clothes?” International Journal of Systematic Theology 1 : 79-92.

2003: “Logos and logoi Ensarkos: Christology and a Problem of Perception,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 5 : 133-46.

2003: “Can there be Theology without Necessity?” Heythrop Journal, 44 : 131-46.

2002: “Is the Trinity a True Contradiction?” Quodlibet, 4, no. 4 (online journal) URL: http://www.quodlibet.net/rauser-trinity.shtml

BOOK CHAPTERS

2009: “Theology as a Bull Session,” in Oliver Crisp and Michael Rea, ed., Analytic Theology, Oxford University Press

ANTHOLOGIZED ARTICLES

2010: “Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What to Do When Christianity Looks Ridiculous,” in Andrew David, Christopher J. Keller, and Jon Stanley, eds., ‘God Is Dead’ and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements with the New Atheism (Wipf and Stock)

DICTIONARY ENTRIES

2008: “Soul, origin of,” in New Dictionary of Theology. (InterVarsity Press)

BOOK REVIEWS

2008: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, The Trinity: Global Perspectives in International Journal of Systematic Theology, 10, no. 2

2007: James Beilby, Epistemology as Theology in Ars Disputandi (May 31, 2007) [online] URL: http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000281/article.pdf

2007: Stanley Grenz, Rediscovering the Triune God: The Trinity in Contemporary Theology in International Journal of Systematic Theology, 9, no. 1.

2004: William Alston, A Sensible Metaphysical Realism in Philosophia Christi, 6, no. 1

2004: George Lindbeck, The Church in a Postliberal Age in Canadian Evangelical Review, no. 28

2004: Andrew Moore, Realism and Christian Faith: God, Grammar, and Meaning, in Religious Studies, 40, no. 4

2003: William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, eds., Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, in International Journal of Systematic Theology, 5, no. 3

2003: Stanley Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self in Themelios 28, no. 3

2002: Willem J. van Asselt and Eef Dekker, eds., Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise in Canadian Evangelical Review, no. 23

2002: Gabriel Fackre, The Doctrine of Revelation in International Journal of Systematic Theology 4, no. 2

2002: Stanley Grenz, Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era in Studies in Religion, 31, no. 3-4

2002: Clark Pinnock, Most Moved Mover in Canadian Evangelical Review, no. 24

BLOGS

“The Tentative Apologist (since March 2009)

COURSES TAUGHT

TAYLOR SEMINARY (Graduate)

Christian Apologetics

Christian Worldview

Church History to 1500

Church History since 1500

Contemporary Theology

Systematic Theology I (Prolegomena to Anthropology)

Systematic Theology II (Christology to Eschatology)

Trinity and Life

The Person and Work of Christ

Christian Ethics

Calvin’s Institutes (1 credit directed study)

The Doctrine of Hell (1 credit directed study)

BRIERCREST COLLEGE (Undergraduate)

Introduction to Theology I

Introduction to Philosophy I (Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology)

Introduction to Philosophy II (Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Social Philosophy)

Philosophy of Religion

ACADEMIC PAPER PRESENTATIONS

2010 Nov “‘I want to give the baby to God,’ Three Theses on God and devotional child-killing.” EPS/SBL Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA)

2008 Nov “Theology as a Bull Session.” ETS Conference (Providence, RI)

2008 Feb “Is Faith Rational or are Religious People Just Nuts?” Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB)

2007 Nov “Can Evangelicals Handle the Truth? Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s The Truth Project.” ETS Conference (San Diego, CA)

2004 Nov “If Trinitarianism Were False, Would Monism Be True?” ETS Conference (San Antonio, TX)

2004 May “Supervenience of the Mind or Resurrection of the Soul: A Critical Appraisal of Non-Reductive Physicalism.” AAR, PNW Regional Conference (Vancouver, BC)

2003 Jan “Conceiving the Heuristic Trinity: Is the Rhetoric of Relation without Substance?” Briercrest Theologue, Briercrest College (Caronport, SK)

2002 Mar “Healing a Creation Torn Asunder: A Speculative Trinitarian Proposal” ETS, NW Regional Conference (Portland, OR)

2001 June “The Resurrection of the Soul, or, On Taking the Soul of Christian History Seriously” Systematic Theology Seminar King’s College (London, UK)

2001 Feb “Epistemic Justification by Faith: A Critique of Systematic Theology Seminar Bruce Marshall” King’s College (London, UK)

2000 Nov “Plantinga on Scripture Scholarship, or How I learned to Quit Worrying and Love the Bible” Philosophy of Religion Seminar, King’s College (London, UK)

2000 Oct “On the History and Possibility of Divine Illumination.” Systematic Theology Seminar, King’s College (London, UK)

2000 June “Spirit, Consciousness and Concurrence,” Systematic Theology Seminar, King’s College (London, UK)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

2010 Oct “Does Christian belief have a place for doubt?” (Feature address) ACSI Alberta Convention (Calgary, AB) and ACSI BC Convention (Vancouver, BC)

2010 Oct “Do not leave alive anything that breathes: Helping students read Israel’s holy wars,” (Feature address) ACSI Alberta Convention (Calgary, AB) and ACSI BC Convention (Vancouver, BC)

2010 Oct “Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord: Helping students read the imprecatory Psalms” (Feature address) ACSI Alberta Convention (Calgary, AB) and ACSI BC Convention (Vancouver, BC)

2010 Sept “Born to Buy? How consumer culture is selling out our kids,” (Seminar) Alberta Teachers Association Regional Convention (Vermilion, AB)

2010 Feb/Mar “The End of the World … and everything after that” (4 sessions) Renaissance Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2010 Feb “Born to Buy? How consumer culture is selling out our kids,” (address) Alberta North Central Teacher’s Convention (Edmonton, AB)

2010 Feb “Is the Atheist my Neighbor?: Indoctrination in the New Atheism,” Alberta ACSI Educator Convention (Sherwood Park, AB)

2009 Oct “The End of the World … and everything after that” (5 sessions) Greenfield Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2009 Oct “Why Did Missy Die? God and Evil in The Shack” The King’s University College (Edmonton, AB)

2009 Jul “Theology, Doubt and Belief,” Bell Tower Books (Kelowna, BC)

2009-Feb/Mar ”Christian Apologetics,” Renaissance Baptist Church (4 sessions) (Edmonton, AB)

2009-Feb/Mar ”Christian Apologetics,” Greenfield Baptist Church (4 sessions) (Edmonton, AB)

2009 Feb “Brainwashed? On the Challenge of Christian Education” (Feature Address) Alberta ACSI Educator Convention (Calgary, AB)

2009 Feb “Finding God in The Shack” (3 sessions) ”God as Mother?” God as Triune?” “Why did Missy die?” Alberta ACSI Educator Convention (Calgary, AB)

2009 Jan “The Apostles’ Creed: The Convergence of an Ancient Creed, Timeless Truth, and Contemporary Life,” (1 day seminar) Parkview Alliance Church (Vermillion, AB)

2008 Nov “Finding God in The Shack,” Greenfield Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2008 Sept “Finding God in The Shack,” McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2008 Mar “Christianity in a World of Religions,” (1 day seminar) McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2008 Feb “Disciples of Consumption: How the Church sold out to consumerism (and how we can buy it back) Alberta ACSI Educator Convention (Sherwood Park, AB)

2007 Dec “Advent and Consumerism” McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2007 Oct “Sold Out to Stuff: Consumerism as false religion,” Taylor University College Public Lecture Series on Religion and Culture (Edmonton, AB)

2007 Oct “From Head to Heart to Hands,” McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2007 Oct “Disciples of Consumption: How the Church sold out to consumerism (and how we can buy it back) BC ACSI Educator Convention (Kelowna, BC)

2007 Oct “What is Truth? Absolute Truth in a Pilate Culture,” BC ACSI Educator Convention (Kelowna, BC)

2007 Oct “Atheism: A Worldview in Crisis,” BC ACSI Educator Convention (Kelowna, BC)

2007 Feb/Mar “Exploring the Passion of the Christ” (6 sessions) McKernan Baptist Church

2007 Feb “The Greatest Scandal Ever Told” Feature Address, Manitoba ACSI Educator Convention (Winnipeg, MB)

2007 Feb “What is Truth? Absolute Truth in a Pilate Culture,” Manitoba ACSI Educator Convention (Winnipeg, MB)

2007 Feb “The Greatest Scandal Ever Told,” Alberta ACSI Educator Converntion (Calgary, AB)

2007 Feb “What is Truth? Absolute Truth in a Pilate Culture,” Alberta ACSI Educator Convention (Calgary, AB)

2007 Jan “What Would Jesus Care About? An Introduction to Environmental Stewardship,” Jubileers January Meeting (Edmonton, AB)

2006 Nov “Defending Christian Truth in a (Post)Modern World” (3 Sessions): (1) Christianity, Science and Intelligent Design; (2) The Intolerance of Religious Pluralism; (3) Exploring the Problem of Evil; Ontario ACSI Educator Convention (Toronto, ON)

2006 Nov “Education as Vocation,” ACSI Educator Convention (Toronto, ON)

2006 Nov “The Greatest Scandal Ever Told,” ACSI Educator Convention (Toronto, ON)

2006 Nov “Defending the Resurrection,” ACSI Educator Convention (Toronto, ON)

2006 Oct “The Greatest Scandal Ever Told,” Keynote Address, BC ACSI Educator Convention (Abbotsford, BC)

2006 Oct “Defending Christian Truth in a (Post)Modern World,” (3 Sessions) BC ACSI Educator Convention (Abbotsford, BC)

2006 Sept/Oct “Introduction to Christian Worldview,” (6 Sessions) McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2006 Sept “The End of Education” (Convocation Address) Taylor University College and Seminary (Edmonton, AB)

2006 May/June “Debunking the Da Vinci Code” Seminar at Alberta area churches: Leduc Fellowship (Leduc AB); Community of Hope, Steele Heights Baptist, McKernan Baptist (Edmonton, AB); Faith Community Baptist (Airdrie, AB)

2006 Apr “Live the Scandal” (Tribute to the Grads) Taylor Seminary Graduation (Edmonton, AB)

2006 Mar “Does Petitionary Prayer Change God’s Mind?” “Growing in Prayer” Annual Conference Park Meadows Baptist Church, Lethbridge, AB

2006 Mar “Heaven, Hell, and the Everyday” (Retreat Speaker-3 Sessions) Alberta Baptist Association Men’s Retreat, Caroline, AB

2006 Feb “Defending Christian Truth in a (Post)Modern World,” (3 Sessions) Alberta ASCI Educator Convention, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Nov “What about those who have never heard?” Refresh Group at McKernan Baptist Church, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Oct “Will we be Bored in Heaven?” Refresh Group at McKernan Baptist Church, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Oct “How can a Loving God send People to Hell?” Refresh Group at McKernan Baptist Church, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Oct “Debunking the Da Vinci Code: What Christian Skeptics Don’t Want You to Know” (3 Sessions) BC ACSI Educator Convention, (Surrey, BC)

2005 Sept “Does God Exist?” Refresh Group at McKernan Baptist Church, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Jan/Mar “Issues in Baptism” Presentation and Discussion McKernan and Central Baptist Church Boards, (Edmonton, AB)

2005 Feb “Debunking the Da Vinci Code: What Christian Skeptics Don’t Want You to Know” (3 Sessions) Alberta ASCI Educator Convention, (Calgary, AB)

2005 Feb “The Resurrection and History,” West Meadows Baptist Church, (Edmonton, AB)

2004 Dec “Ten Reasons to be a Substance Dualist,” (Guest Lecture) Taylor University College, Science and Religion Class (Edmonton, AB)

2004 Nov “God and ET: Christian Reflections on UFOs and Little Green Men,” Taylor University College Public Lecture Series on Religion and Culture, (Edmonton, AB)

2004 Mar/Oct “Unforgettable Stories from Church History” (3 sessions) McKernan Baptist Church (Edmonton, AB)

2004 July “Mapping the Christian City: An Introduction to Christian Diversity,” Campus Crusade for Christ (Edmonton, AB)

2003 Feb “Digging for the Roots of Atheism: A Critique of Epistemological and Metaphysical Naturalism,” Goodenough College (London, UK)

2001 Sept “Materialism as a Contrary Worldview,” BC ACSI Educator Convention (Surrey, BC)

RADIO AND INTERNET INTERVIEWS

2009 Aug Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Trans World Radio Network” (London, UK)

2009 June Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Woman to Woman” on KGMS 940 AM (Tucson, AZ)

2009 Apr Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Groove House Extravaganza” on WYSZ 89.3 FM/WYSA 88.5 FM (Toledo, OH)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “John Hall in the Afternoons” on WORD 101.5 FM (Pittsburgh, PA)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with WKTO 88.7 FM (Daytona Beach, FL)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Homeward Bound” on KLGO 89.5 FM/99.3 FM (Austin, TX)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Tron Talk” on KCBR 1040 AM/KCMN 1530 AM (Colorado Springs, CO)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Eric Hogue Show” on KFIA 710 AM (Sacramento and San Francisco, CA)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “On the Book Shelf” on WTBF 970 AM/94.7 FM (Troy and Montgomery AL/FL)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “I Thought She Said” on KJSL 630 AM (St. Louis, MO)

2009 Mar Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The God Show” on KTAR 620 AM (Phoenix, AZ)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Morning Show with John Ramer,” on CJCA 930 AM (Edmonton, AB)

2009 Feb Interview on Finding God in the Shack with Christian Cinema:

Read online: http://www.christiancinema.com/catalog/newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=961

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Morning Show with Dan and Deda” on KFLQ 91.5 FM (Albuquerque, NM)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Drive Time” on the Premier Radio Network (London, UK)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with ‘USA Radio Daily News” on USA Radio

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Northland Notebook” on WWJC 850 AM (Duluth, MN)Listen online: http://www.wwjc.com/northlandnotebook.html

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Afternoon Show” on KFUO 850 AM (St. Louis, MO)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “AM Café” on WAIJ 90.3 FM (Grantsville, MD; Pittsburgh and Johnstontown, PA; Morgantown, WV)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Dr. Alvin Jones” on WCBQ 1340 AM / WHNC 890 AM (Oxford, NC)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Paul Edwards Program” on WLQV 1500 AM (Detroit, MI)

2009 Feb Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “The Bob Dutko Show” on WMUZ 103.5 FM (Detroit, MI)

2009 Jan Radio interview on Finding God in the Shack with “John Young and Friends” on WNIV 970 AM/WLTA 1400 AM (Atlanta, GA)

2008 Mar Christian Educator Podcast Two-part interview on Christian education and consumerism; URL: www.thechristianeducator.org

TELEVISION AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

2009 May Television interview on Finding God in the Shack with “Celebration” on the Daystar Television Network (Dallas, TX)

2009 Mar Book signing and seminar for Finding God in the Shack at the Christian Book Expo (Dallas, TX)

2009 Feb Book signing for Finding God in the Shack at Blessings Christian Marketplace (Edmonton, AB)

SPECIAL AWARDS AND POSITIONS

2009- Columnist for the Christian Post (education section)

2006-2008: Canadian Evangelical Theological Association Member at Large

2006-2007: Alberta Baptist Association Credentialing Committee

2006: Referee for Canadian Evangelical Review

2005: Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Students (Taylor University College & Seminary)

1999-2001: Graduate Resident at Goodenough College, London, UK

1998-1999: Research Assistant in Bioethics for Dr. Edwin Hui (Regent College)

During this time I conducted research for Dr. Hui’s book At the Beginning of Life (IVP)

COMMITTEE WORK

2009-2010: Faculty liaison to the Student Association;

2008-2010: Faculty Handbook Committee

2008-2009: Academic Committee

2008: Taylor University College and Seminary Presidential Search Committee

2005-2008: Chair-Taylor Seminary Student Life Committee

2003-2005: Member, Taylor Seminary Student Life Committee

2003-2004: Registrar and Admissions Director Search Committee

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

2002-present: American Academy of Religion

2002-present: Evangelical Theological Society

2003-present: Evangelical Philosophical Society

2003-2004: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

2004-2009: Canadian Evangelical Theological Association

Randal Rauser

Curriculum Vitae

Randal Rauser

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

TAYLOR SEMINARY:

BRIERCREST COLLEGE:

ACADEMIC HISTORY

EDUCATION

Dissertation: “Trinity, Mind and World: A Theological Epistemology of Mediation”

AREAS OF SPECIALITY

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

PUBLISHED TEACHING CURRICULUM

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

BOOK CHAPTERS

ANTHOLOGIZED ARTICLES

POPULAR ARTICLES

DICTIONARY ENTRIES

BOOK REVIEWS

BLOGS

COURSES TAUGHT

TAYLOR SEMINARY (Graduate)

BRIERCREST COLLEGE (Undergraduate)

ACADEMIC PAPER PRESENTATIONS

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

RADIO AND INTERNET INTERVIEWS

TELEVISION AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

SPECIAL AWARDS AND POSITIONS

COMMITTEE WORK

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS