Kelly James Clark

Kelly James Clark (born March 3, 1956) is an American philosopher noted for his work in the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, and the cognitive science of religion.^[1] He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute and Professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids Michigan.

For the American physician, see Kelly J. Clark.

Interfaith work[edit]

Clark is an international advocate for interfaith cooperation, focusing on the Abrahamic religions. As of October 2016, he is project director for “Abrahamic Reflections on Science and Religion” a Templeton Foundation project which brings together 36 scholars from 14 countries to reconcile issues in the fields of science and religion. Scholars include Nidhal Guessoum, Rana Dajani, Nathan Aviezer, & Robert Koons, among others.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Clark has lectured around the world and has served as director for international conferences on science and religion, interfaith cooperation, & Chinese philosophy. He has worked extensively with the John Templeton Foundation, organizing many interfaith symposiums, notably “Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict” at Georgetown University on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.^[8] That conference inspired a book of the same name in which fifteen influential practitioners of the Abrahamic religions argued for religious liberty and tolerance from their own faith traditions. Contributors included former United States president Jimmy Carter, Indonesia's first democratically elected president Abhurrahman Wahid, Rabbis for Human Rights co founder, Rabbi Arik Asherman, Rana Husseini, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff & theologian Miroslav Volf. The book earned praise from pioneers for peace such as Bishop Desmond Tutu.^[9]

He also writes a regular column for the Huffington Post which confronts Islamophobia and antisemitism while also combating religious extremism.

God and the Brain. Eerdmans, 2019

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Strangers, Neighbors, Friends. Cascade Books, 2018. Co-written with and Rabbi Nancy Kreimer.^[11]

Aziz Abu Sarah

Readings in the Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2017.

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The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

[13]

Religion and the Sciences of Origins. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014.

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Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an age of Religious Conflict. Yale University Press, 2012

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Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of , Oxford University Press, 2012. Co-edited with Michael Rea.^[16]

Alvin Plantinga

Evidence and Religious Belief. Oxford University Press, 2011. Co-edited with Ray VanArragon.

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Faith, Knowledge and Naturalism, Peking University Press, 2007. Co-edited with Xing Taotao.

Ethics, Religion and Society (Christian Academics, Fifth Volume). Co-edited with Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie. Shanghai Guji Press, 2007.

Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, co-edited with Chen Xia. Sichuan University Press, 2005.

101 Key Philosophical Terms and Their Importance for Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. Co-authored with and Richard Lints.^[18]

James K.A. Smith

A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, co-edited with Mel Stewart and Zhou Zhianzang. Xiamen University Press, 2004.

The Story of Ethics: Human Nature & Human Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, 2003. Co-authored with Anne Poortenga.

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Five Views on Apologetics. Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000. Co-authored with , Gary Habermas, John Frame and Paul Feinberg.^[20]

William Lane Craig

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

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Philosophers Who Believe. InterVarsity Press, 1993.

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Return to Reason. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.

[23]

Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology. Kluwer academic publishers, 1992.