John W. Loftus
John majored in the "Philosophy of Religion" under Dr. William Lane Craig at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and graduated with a Th.M. in 1985. John's book Why I Rejected Christianity: A Former Apologist Explains is now available. (You can also purchase it here through me in the New & Used link). John is the Debunking Christianity Blog creator.
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Dr. William Lane Craig
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Wheaton College—B. A. Communications, 1971; high honors
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School—M. A. Philosophy of Religion, 1975; summa cum laude
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School—M. A. Church History, 1975; summa cum laude
University of Birmingham, England—Ph.D. Philosophy, 1977
Universität München, Germany—D. Theol. Theology, 1984
HONORS
Scholastic Honor Society—Wheaton College, 1971
Academic Achievement Award—Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1975
Research Grant—Andersen Foundation, 1975-77
Research Fellowship—Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, 1978-80
Best Articles of 1988— Philosopher's Annual II, 1988
McManis Lectureship—Wheaton College, 1994
Geneva Lecture Series—University of Iowa, 1994
Exemplary Papers Award—Templeton Foundation, 1995
Paley Lectures—University of Western Ontario, 1995
Easterwood Lecture—Southern Methodist Universit,y 1996
Carver-Barnes Lectures, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1996
Strauss Lectures—Lincoln Christian College and Seminary, 1996
Easterwood Lecture—Southern Methodist University, 1996
Carver-Barnes Lectures—Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1996
Strauss Lectures—Lincoln Christian College and Seminary, 1996
Exemplary Papers Award—Templeton Foundation, 1996
Exemplary Papers Award—Templeton Foundation, 1997
Ryan Lectures—Asbury College and Seminary, 1999
Templeton Lecture—Montana State University, 1999
Templeton Lecture—Malone College, 2000
Staley Lectures—Crown College, 2000
Saucy Lectures—Talbot School of Theology, 2001
Nelson Lectures—Samford University, 2001
Bonchek Series—Franklin and Marshall College, 2001
Physics and the God of Abraham—Gonzaga University, 2003
Lee Lectures—Louisiana State University, 2003
Weyerhauser Debate Series—University of Hawaii, 2003
Templeton Lecture—University of Colorado, 2004
Templeton Lecture—University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
Stobb Lectures—Calvin College and Seminary, 2004
D. Litt.—Bethel College, 2005
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Philosophical Association (1977-)
American Academy of Religion (1978-)
Society of Biblical Literature (1978-)
Society of Christian Philosophers (1979-)
Executive Committee (1997-2000)
Evangelical Theological Society (1983-)
Evangelical Philosophical Society (1983-)
Vice President (1995-96)
President (1996-2005)
Science and Religion Forum (1990-)
Philosophy of Time Society (1992-)
President (1999-)
CAREER EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion, 1980-1986, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 1986-1987, Westmont College
Visiting Researcher, 1987-1994, Université Catholique de Louvain
Research Professor of Philosophy, 1996- , Talbot School of Theology
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, 2003- , Wheaton College
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From Minister to Honest Doubter: Why I Changed My Mind
by John W. Loftus
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Why I Rejected Christianity: A Former Apologist Explains
by John W. Loftus
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Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
by William Lane Craig
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Hard Questions, Real Answers
by William Lane Craig
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Comparing Loftus to Craig is like comparing Paully Shore to Socrates. Presuming that Loftus is like Paully Shore of course.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you continue to do this? And what's your point? I don't get it. What does it prove? I cannot compete with him in honors or in book sales, and I never will. So? Did I say that I can? He's published more books and been at this a whole lot longer with a sharper mind than I have in a culture that is overwhelmingly dominated by Christians who soak up apologetics books by the dozen. No wonder he's sold more books and received more honors than I have!
ReplyDeleteBTW I have a whole lot more accomplishments than you listed here, but who cares about a full comparison anyway, right? Simply because you purposely failed to list my many accomplishments shows quite clearly that you're not interested in being objective in your dealings with me. You'll slant things against me. It's no different when you read the newspaper and claim that it's biased and not fully truthful in its presentation of the so-called "facts." So why should any of your readers from this point onward believe what you say about me? It's their's to decide. But you keep digging your own grave here. Fairness. Is that not a Christian quality? Then you lack it, even if all of my accomplishments still pale in comparison to Dr. Craig's accomplishments.
What are your honors and educational experiences and how are your book sales going? Even your book would do better than any of mine because there are more potential Christian buyers of that book than want mine. But what does that prove?
Again, What's your point here? I'd really like to know. Spell it out. Surely such a post has a point, otherwise you wrote something that's pointless.
I actually wrote about Loftus using Craig's name to gain more popularity: here and here.
ReplyDeleteAlso, JP Holding has an awesome website on Loftus: The John W. Loftus Closet of Logical Fallacies
ReplyDeleteI listed the "accomplishments" which you choose to list in your profile. The selection criteria are yours, not mine.
ReplyDeleteAs to my accomplishments, I'm a nobody.
But I'm not the one who was comparing myself with someone else.
The real question is what you intend to achieve by associating your name with Craig's.
I'm merely taking my cue from you and extending the comparison.
I am merely telling people the truth about my educational background, Steve. They can draw their own conclusions. I was one of Dr. Craig's students while he was at TEDS and I also now oppose his ideas, even if like you I am a "nobody" when compared to him. I was trained by the best and I disagree with him. That's all. I never compared myself to him, and I never will. That's my educational background. Am I not supposed to say what my background is, for any particular reason that you know of? Why not?
ReplyDeleteSo your post was based upon a faulty understanding? How often, one could wonder, do you have faulty understandings about me?
Trying to embarrass someone based upon purposely misrepresenting him like you did here, is not as bad as the character assassination tactics by Walton and Holding in quoting people completely out of context, though.
The real question is why Christians are so fearful of an honest dispassionate discussion of the ideas themselves that they have to resort to this kind of stuff. Do we do that with you at DC? Stick with the ideas. Your readers would rather see this.
James Gibson, what if you're correct that it means nothing significant except as a marketing schema (I do not grant that this is all it says)? If so, so what? What's wrong with that? And if you're correct what does Steve's post have to do with this? BTW Half of my hours were under Craig--the most I could take given the number of other required classes I still had to take for the degree.
ReplyDeleteHow come B. Craig told me you worked at Winchells and brought him donuts every day?
ReplyDeleteHe said he never remembered you as a student, other than a student of the, how'd he put it, "deep fry machine." He said you really knew how to fry a donut.
I wonder what the point of this was... Simply to set apples and oranges next to each other and go, oh, look, apples and oranges? Well, if that was it, purpose achieved.
ReplyDeleteI want to be the apples. I like apples better than oranges. ;-)
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ReplyDeleteGibson, you're the kind of guy who tries to impress us with how many distinctions he can make as if that was important. This is a non-issue, and yet you keep commenting on it, which tells me more about your level of understanding than the way you can parse distinctions out of thin air and judge former students capabilities by how close they were to said teacher (did we exchange christmas cards?).
ReplyDeleteGo fish.