T h e G r a d u at e S c h o o l at Houston Baptist University

Master of ARTS in APOLOGETICS

The Master of Arts in Apologetics degree is our faculty: intended to provide students with training in apologetics so that they understand and engage John Mark Reynolds with contemporary worldviews and culture in order HBU Provost, Professor in Philosophy to transform the world for Christ, as academics, as apologists, and as followers of Christ. John Mark Reynolds (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is founder and former HBU’s MA in Apologetics is set apart from other director of the Torrey Honors Institute apologetics programs by its interdisciplinary at Biola University. He is also a nature and its engagement with culture and the Founder and Distinguished Speaker of arts and humanities. Furthermore, the program Wheatstone Ministries. Dr. Reynolds includes a strong component of coursework lectures frequently on ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, in writing and communication in apologetics, home schooling and cultural trends. He regularly appears on radio designed to help students achieve excellence in talk shows, such as the Hugh Hewitt Show, and actively blogs on writing, speaking, and other forms of apologetics cultural issues at ScriptoriumDaily.com and the Washington Post’s engagement. The degree includes a thesis option, “On Faith” column. which is ideal for students who wish to pursue further work at the doctoral level. Holly Ordway Chair, Department of Apologetics The “mere Christian” focus of the program and the Professor in English ecumenical nature of the faculty means that the MA in Apologetics is designed to serve all parts Holly Ordway has a PhD in English of the body of Christ, and welcomes Catholic and literature from the University of Orthodox as well as Protestant students. Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a regular speaker on imaginative and literary apologetics, with special attention to the work of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. She is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith (Moody, 2010) and the forthcoming Literary Apologetics: An Introduction (Moody, 2014). She blogs on literature, culture, and apologetics at Hieropraxis.com. our faculty (cont’d):

Nancy Pearcey Michael Ward Scholar in Residence Professor in Apologetics

Nancy Pearcey studied with Michael Ward has a PhD in Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri and Divinity from the University of St writes extensively on cultural Andrews, and is the author of Planet apologetics. Her bestselling books Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Total Truth and How Now Shall Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford We Live? (coauthored) are ECPA University Press, 2008), for which Gold Medallion Award-winners. he was the winner of the Mythopoeic Hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent Society’s Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. He is an evangelical Protestant female intellectual,” Pearcey has associate member of the theology faculty at the University of taught at Biola, Philadelphia Biblical University, and World Oxford. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Journalism Institute, and has spoken at universities such Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and of Heresies and as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. Formerly the How to Avoid Them (Baker Academic, 2007). founding editor of BreakPoint, Pearcey has appeared on the Bill Bennett Show, Dennis Miller Show, Dennis Prager Show, NPR, Hot Air TV, C-SPAN’s Book TV, Fox & Friends. She is editor at large at Pearceyreport.com. Her latest book, Students in our Apologetics program also Saving Leonardo, helps readers critique secular worldviews benefit greatly through dialogue with our expressed through art, literature, music, and film. colleagues in the Departments of Philosophy and Theology, the faculty of which include:

Mary Jo Sharp • JERRY WALLS Assistant Professor in Apologetics • MIKE LICONA • JOHN MCATEER Director of Online Apologetics • BRUCE GORDON

Mary Jo Sharp holds a MA in Apologetics from Biola University, and is the author of Defending the Faith: Apologetics in Women’s Ministry (Kregel, 2012) and Why Do You Believe That? A Faith Conversation Bible Study (LifeWay Christian Resources, 2012) as well as a contributor to Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics (B&H Academic, 2012). She is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society. She is the founder of Apply at www.hbu.edu/MAA Confident Christianity apologetics ministry through which she is an international speaker and debater. Her work focuses on developing apologetics events and expanding the role of Links: Requirements | Scholarships apologetics in social media as an influence in culture.