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2009 Gadsden Conference on the English Bible

Speakers - Dr. Steve Cowan

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Dr. Steve Cowan served as an adjunct instructor at Southeastern Bible College for five years until joining the faculty full-time in June 2006. Steve is the advisor for the College’s apologetics minor and teaches courses in philosophy and apologetics.

Steve is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi (B.A., 1987), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1991), and the University of Arkansas (M.A., 1993; Ph.D., 1996). He has been married to Ronda since 1986 and has one son born in 2005. He is a member of Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. Steve also serves as the Associate director of the Apologetics Resource Center in Birmingham, Alabama and edits their Areopagus Journal.

Dr. Cowan is a big fan of movies and Doo Wop Music and loves to read science fiction and military history. He is (slowly) working on his own science fiction novel that he hopes to publish in his lifetime.

Dr. Cowan’s publications include the following:

Books

• With James S. Spiegel, The Love of Wisdom A Christian Introduction to Philosophy. (Broadman-Holman, 2009).
• Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government (Zondervan, 2004).
• Five Views on Apologetics (Zondervan, 2000).

Articles

• “Common Misconceptions of Evangelicals Regarding Calvinism,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 33:2 (June 1990): 189-195.
• “’Aristotelian’ Logic in the Old Testament: A Biblical Refutation of a Strict Dichotomy Between Greek and Hebrew Thought,” Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 14:2 (1991): 21-30.
• “A Reductio ad Absurdum of Divine Temporality,” Religious Studies, 32:4 (September 1996): 371-378.
• “God, Libertarian Agency, and Scientific Explanations: Problems for J.P. Moreland’s Strategy for Avoiding the God of the Gaps,” Philosophia Christi 4:1, Series 2 (2002): 125-137.
• “The Grounding Objection to Middle Knowledge Revisited,” Religious Studies 39:1 (January 2003): 93-102.
• “The Question of Moral Values,” in The Big Argument: 24 Scholars Explore Why Science, Archaeology, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God, eds. Michael Westacott and John Ashton (Strand, 2005).
• “’It Would Have Been Good for that Man if He Had not Been Born’: Human Sinfulness and Hell as a Horrendous Evil,” Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 10:1, (2008).
• "Molinism, Meticulous Providence, and Luck," in Philosophia Christi 11:1 (2009).
• "On Target with 'Molinism, Meticulous Providence, and Luck': A Rejoinder to Scott A. Davison," Philosophia Christi 11:1 (2009).
• "Making a Case for the Inspiration of Scripture in the Current Milieu" Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2:1 (2009).
• "The Metaphysics of Subordination: A Response to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis," The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 14:1 (Spring 2009).

Book Reviews

• Of Richard Swinburne’s The Christian God in Philosophia Christi 19:2 (Fall 1996).
• Of David K. Clark’s Dialogical Apologetics in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43:2 (June 2000).
• Of Roy A. Varghese’s Theos, Anthropos, Christos in Philosophia Christi 3:2, Series 2 (2001).
• Of Paul Copan’s That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith in Philosophia Christi 5:1, Series 2 (2003).
• Of Kenneth Boa and Robert M. Bowman’s Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity in Philosophia Christi 6:2, Series 2 (2004).
• Of Norman L. Geisler’s Chosen But Free: A Balanced View of Divine Election in Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 9:1 (2007).
• Of Gary Habermas and Michael Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus in Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 9:2 (2007).
• Of Kenneth Samples’, A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test in Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1:1 (2008).

Dr. Steven B. Cowan and his wife Ronda joined the Apolgetics Resource Center in 2000 from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Steve had been pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church since 1992, and an adjunct professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ouachita Baptist University and a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas.

Born in 1962 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Steve became a Christian while attending the Calvary Baptist Church in Hattiesburg. He attended the University of Southern Mississippi majoring in the field of Sociology. Here Steve developed a keen interest in philosophy and apologetics and determined that he would pursue these disciplines on the graduate level. He has earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Arkansas (dissertation: Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: A Compatabilist Reconciliation), as well as the Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Steve's teaching focus has been on Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Theology, Apologetics and World Religions.

Affiliations

• Evangelical Theological Society
• Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Society of Christian Philosophers
• American Philosophical Association

Publication Credits

• Religious Studies
• Philosophia Christi
• Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
• The Student
• Five Views on Apologetics (Zondervan)
• Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government (Zondervan)

Steve's wife has also been active in ministry serving as a missionary for the Baptist Student Union, with a special focus on internationals. Steve brings much needed expertise into our ministry. Steve edited and contributed to the important new Zondervan book, 5 Views on Apologetics. He has also participated in public debates defending the existence of God and the resurrection of Jesus. He brings to ARC a wonderful combination of high academic standards and pastoral experience. Steve's focus is on teaching and development of our Apologetics Journal (Areopagus Journal) and the Apologetics Institute.

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