Education

Ph.D., “With Distinction,” Princeton University (Philosophy of Religion), 1976
Rel.M., Claremont School of Theology (Philosophy of Religion/Theology), 1972
B.A., Magna cum Laude, Yale University (History), 1970

Employment

• President, New College of Florida, October, 2001---
• Acting President, New College of Florida, July, 2001-September, 2001
• Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University, Spring, 2001
• Professor of Humanities, New College of the University of South Florida/New College of Florida, 1992-present
• Dean and Warden, New College of USF, 1992-97
• From Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of Religion, Oberlin College, 1977-92 (Department Chair, 1989-92)
• From Instructor to Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Davidson College, 1975-77
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1974-75

Additional Professional Experience

• Board of Directors, Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, 2005-present; Vice President, 2007-08
• Vice President, Southern University Conference, 2007-present
• Board of Trustees, LeRoy Collins Institute, 2003-present
• American Consulting Editor, THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (1991-93)
• Director, Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program, 1987-88, 1989-92
• Advisory Council, Department of Religion, Princeton University, 1988-2000; Chair, 1995-97
• Board of Trustees, Shansi Memorial Association, 1988-1992
• Oberlin College Board of Trustees Educational Programs and Policies Committee, 1987-1992
• Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Trinity Term, 1989
• National Endowment for the Humanities (N.E.H.) Distinguished Scholar, Bucknell University, 1985
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, 1984-85
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Religion, Princeton University

Selected Fellowships & Awards

• American Theological Society (by election), 1989-present
• N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1992-93 (declined)
• Oberlin College Research Status Appointment, 1992-93 (declined)
• N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1988-89
• N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1984
• Oberlin College Research Status Appointment, 1984-85
• Oberlin College H.H. Powers Travel Grant (Great Britain and Germany), 1981
• N.E.H. Fellowship for College Teachers, 1980-81
• N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1978
• Davidson College Summer Research Fellowship (Germany), 1976
• Kent Fellowship (Danforth Foundation), 1974-75

Publications

Books:

• KANT AND THE PROBLEM OF GOD (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999)
• FALLEN FREEDOM: KANT ON RADICAL EVIL AND MORAL REGENERATION (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• LESSING’S “UGLY DITCH”: A STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND HISTORY (University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985)
• THE HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS OF A RATIONAL FAITH: THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN KANT’S
• RELIGIOUS THOUGHT (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977)

Edited Book:

American Consulting Editor, THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993)  

Selected Articles:

• “Kant, the Bible, and the Recovery from Radical Evil,” in Sharon Anderson-Gold and Pablo Muchnik
• (eds.), KANT’S ANATOMY OF EVIL (forthcoming)
•  “Re-reading the Post-Kantian Tradition with Milbank,” JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS 32 (June, 2004)
•  “Immanuel Kant,” THE ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROTESTANTISM (New York: Routledge, 2004).
•  “God and Kant’s Ethical Commonwealth,” THE THOMIST 65 (2001).
• “Lessing,” THE ABINGDON DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999).
• “The Problem of Salvation in Kant’s RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON ALONE,”
• INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 37 (1997).
• “Cartesianism,”  THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN
•  THOUGHT (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
•  “Faith and History,” THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
• (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
• “Kierkegaard’s Debt to Lessing: Reply to Whisenant,” MODERN THEOLOGY 6 (1990).
•  “Moral Regeneration and Divine Aid in Kant,” RELIGIOUS STUDIES 25 (1989).
• “The Response to Lindbeck,” MODERN THEOLOGY 4 (1988).
• “The Inscrutability of Moral Evil in Kant,” THE THOMIST 51 (1987).
• “The Non-Moral Element in Kant’s Moral Proof of the Existence of God,” SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 39 (1986).
• “Faith and History: The Shape of the Problem,” MODERN THEOLOGY 1 (1985).
•  “Theology, Historical Knowledge, and the Contingency-Necessity Distinction,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 14 (1983).
• “Pannenberg on the Resurrection and Historical Method,” SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 33 (1980).
• “Lessing, Kierkegaard, and the ‘Ugly Ditch’: A Re-examination,” JOURNAL OF RELIGION 59 (1979).
•  “The Role of History in Kant’s Religious Thought,” ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW 59 (1977).
•  “The Impossibility of Religious Progress in Kant,” in PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY:1976, ed. P. Slater (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976).
• “Bultmann’s Metaphysical Dualism,” RELIGION IN LIFE 44 (1975).