DR. KELLY JAMES CLARK

Department of Philosophy

Calvin College

3201 Burton St. S.E.

Grand Rapids , MI 49546

(616) 957-6421 (o)

Fax: (616) 957-8505

(616) 245-2059 (h)

Email: kclark@calvin.edu

Academic Positions & Honors

Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College , 1989-present.

Tenure granted, 1997.

Awarded Calvin Research Fellowship, 2000-2001.

2002-2003: Awarded Fellowship from the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion

2002-2004: Recipient of Freeman Foundation Fellowship for Summer Research

Visiting Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1995-96.

Secretary-Treasurer, Society of Christian Philosophers, 1994-.

Co-chair, China Committee, 2000-.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gordon College, 1985-89.

Recipient of CAPHE Foundation Grant for research on Spanish Common Sense Philosophy in Spain , Summer 1988.

Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame, 1984-85, 1982-83.

Education

University of Notre Dame (1980-85).

Ph.D., Philosophy,

Dissertation: Probabilistic Confirmation Theory and the Existence of God

Advisor: Alvin Plantinga

M.A., History and Philosophy of Science.

Western Kentucky University (1980-81)

M.A., Humanities, With Highest Honors.

Michigan State University (1974-78)

B.A., Philosophy and Religious Studies, With High Honors.

Honored as best student in Religious Studies.

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Chinese Philosophy

Areas of Competence: Ethics, Anglo-American Philosophy, Philosophy of Language,

Narrative Philosophy, and Logic

Publications

Books

The Story of Ethics: Human Nature & Human Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, 2003.

Co-authored with Anne Poortenga.

101 Key Philosophical Terms and Their Importance for Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, forthcoming.

Reader in Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2000.

Five Views on Apologetics. Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000.

Co-authored with William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, John Frame and Paul Feinberg.

When Faith Is Not Enough . Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997.

Portuguese edition: Quando a Fé Nao é Suficiente translated by Henry DeCoster. Rio de Janeiro : Textus, 2001.

Forthcoming in Chinese.

Kelly James Clark, ed. Philosophers Who Believe . InterVarsity Press, 1993.

Awarded Christianity Today's best books of 1994.

Return to Reason. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.

Korean edition: Jeshurun Publishing Company, 1998.

Kelly James Clark, ed. Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology . Kluwer academic publishers, 1992. Essays by Alvin Plantinga, William Alston, Richard Swinburne, Marilyn McCord Adams, Norman Kretzmann, Tom Flint, Nicholas Wolterstorff, George Schlesinger, Peter Forrest and Kelly James Clark.

Translation projects

Co-editor of Chinese translations of Hilary Putnam's The Threefold Cord, William Alston's A Realist Conception of Truth, Alvin Plantinga's Warrant and Proper Function, Nicholas Wolterstorff's Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Lee Hardy, The Fabric of This World , Kelly James Clark's When Faith Is Not Enough and John Hare's Why Bother Being Good? .

Articles

“Why Be Moral?” Markets and Morality , vol. 6, no. 1, 81-98.

“Without Evidence or Argument: A Defense of Reformed Epistemology ,” Academic Journal of Qingdao University , forthcoming.

“A Confucian Defense of Gender Equity,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, forthcoming.

“Fiction as a Kind of Philosophy,” in Realism/Anti-Realism , ed. William Alston ( Ithaca , NY : Cornell University Press, 2002).

“William James”, “Atheism”, and “Reason” in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics ( Leicester , England : Inter Varsity Press, forthcoming).

“The Polished Mirror: Reflections on Natural Knowledge in Plantinga and Zhuangzi,” Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization, SUNY Press, forthcoming.

“In Defense of Our Selves,” co-authored with Kevin Corcoran, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol 4, no. 4, Winter 2001, 711-716.

“Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance,” co-author, Kevin Corcoran with responses by Edwin Black, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jay Mechling and James Arnt Aune in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 2000, 627-651.

“God is Great, God is Good: Medieval Conceptions of Divine Goodness and the Problem of Human Suffering,” Religious Studies, 37, 15-31.

“Diversity and Dialogue,” Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Philosophy and Religion , Xiamen University Press, 2002.

“Narrative understanding of the self,” Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Philosophy and Religion , Peking University Press, 2001.

“Without Evidence or Argument,” Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Philosophy and Religion , Peking University Press, 2000.

“Religious diversity and religious tolerance,” Global Dialogue , 2000.

“Modal Logic and the Rebirth of Metaphysics,” Zhe Jiang Academic Journal, No. 2, 2000.

“Without Evidence or Argument” in Reader in Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2000.

“An Introduction to Reformed Epistemology” in Five Views on Apologetics, Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000.

“Plantinga vs. Oliphint: And the Winner Is...”, Calvin Theological Journal, April 1998, vol. 33, no. 1, 160-169.

“Perils of Pluralism”, Faith and Philosophy, Vol 14, No. 3, July 1997, 303-320.

“Knowing the Unknowable God”, Books and Culture, Vol. 3, no. 5, September-October 1997, 29-30.

“Trinity or Tritheism?” Religious Studies, 32, 463-476.

“Reformed Epistemology,” Modern Reformation Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, January/February, 1998, 23-26.

“I Believe in God the Father, Almighty,” I nternational Philosophical Quarterly , Vol. XXXV, No. 1 Issue 137 (March 1995), 58-69.

“The Literature of Confession,” in Philosophers Who Believe . InterVarsity Press; 1993, 7-21.

“Doubt,” Dialogue , April, 1992.

“Hold Not Thy Peace at My Tears: A Methodological Discussion of Divine Impassibility,” in Our Knowledge of God . Kluwer academic publishers, 1992, 167-193.

“Spanish Common Sense Philosophy: Jaime Balmes' Critique of Cartesian Foundationalism,” History of Philosophy Quarterly , April 1990, 207-226.

“The Explanatory Power of Theism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 25: 129-146 (1989).

“Evil and Christian Belief,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 2 Issue No. 114 (June 1989), 175-189.

“Proofs of God's Existence,” The Journal of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 1, January 1989, 59-84.

“The Religious and Philosophical Views of Sir William Herschel,” Astronomy Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 21, 1988, 27-43.

Reprinted in the Bulletin of the William Herschel Society, 1990.