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R. Scott Smith

  • Associate Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics
  • Ph.D., University of Southern California
  • M.A., University of Southern California
  • M.A., Talbot Theological Seminary
  • B.A., California State University, Hayward

CV Document (PDF)

Affiliations

  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  • American Philosophical Association (APA)
  • Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP)
  • Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) - Secretary-Treasurer since November 2000
  • American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA)

Publications

Articles

  • “Post-Conservatives, Foundationalism, and Theological Truth: A Critical Evaluation.” In Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 48:2, June 2005.
  • "Hauerwas and Kallenberg, and the Issue of Access to an Extra-Linguistic Realm." In Heythrop Journal 45:3, July 2004.
  • "Some Conceptual Problems for Hauerwas’s Virtue Ethics " In Philosophia Christi 3:1, 2001.

Books

  • Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church (Crossway, 2005)
  • Virtue ethics and moral knowledge: philosophy of language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003)

Chapters

  • “Christian Postmodernism and the Internal Relation of Language and the World,” in Christianity and the Postmodern Turn, ed. Myron Penner (Brazos Press, 2005).
  • “Postmodernism and the Priority of the Language-World Relation,” in Christianity and the Postmodern Turn, ed. Myron Penner (Brazos Press, 2005).
  • “Language, Theological Knowledge, and the Postmodern Paradigm,” in Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in a Postmodern Times, ed. Paul K. Helseth, Millard J. Erickson, and Justin Taylor (Crossway, 2004).