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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE GERALD R. MCDERMOTT Professor of Religion and Philosophy Roanoke College Salem, VA 24153 e-mail: mcdermot@roanoke.edu EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1989 M.R.E Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary, 1982 B.S. in History and Education, North Dakota State University, 1982 B.A. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago, 1974. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND HONORS: Copenhaver Visiting Scholar Grant, to bring Hungarian literary critic Tibor Fabiny to Roanoke College for the fall of 2006, $15, 500. Institutional Renewal Grant, for 4-part lecture series on “The Lutheran Tradition” at Roanoke College, Rhodes Consultation, 2004-05, $4000. Resident Fellow, Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Studies, Collegeville Minnesota, 2002-03. Louisville Institute, 2002-03, for sabbatical at Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Studies. $5400. Member, Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related Colleges, 2000-03, $3500. Member, Lutheran Academy of Scholars in Higher Education, Harvard University, June 1999, $2000. Roanoke College, “Professional Achievement Award,” 1999, $1000. Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, Aug. 1995–July 1996, $32,800. Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Mednick Fellowship, 1995, $800, for research trip to Yale’s Beinecke Library. Presbyterian Historical Society, 1993 Woodrow Wilson Award for outstanding scholarly article: “Jonathan Edwards, the City on a Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal,” $100. Selected by Roanoke College student body to give the “Last Lecture” December 1993 (first professor selected) Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Fellowship for Young Scholars in American Religion, 1992–93, $1000 plus expenses for four trips to Indianapolis to work with Catherine Albanese and William Hutchison. Roanoke College, Faculty Enrichment Grant, $600 Roanoke College, Faculty Professional Advancement, $600 Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 2006, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1999, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1998, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1997, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1994, $2000. Roanoke College, Research Grant, 1994, $750. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1993, $2000. Roanoke College, Summer Research Award, 1992, $2000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1990, $3500 Roanoke College, Roanoke Faculty Scholar, 1991-1994; 1994-1997; 1997-2000, 2001-2004. Three-year awards that reduce teaching load and grant $500 per year for research expenses. Roanoke College, Faculty Research Starter Grant, 1991, $1419. Roanoke College, Faculty Research Starter Grant, 1990, $1762. University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts, Ada Louise Ballard Dissertation–Year Fellowship, 1988–89, $7000. University of Iowa School of Religion, Teaching Research Fellowship, 1985–88, four years of funding worth $40,000. University of Iowa, Research Grant, 1987, $450. Honors Assistant, University of Iowa, 1984–85. Graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago, 1974. PUBLICATIONS: Books God’s Rivals: Why God Allows Different Religions–Insights from the Bible and the Early Church (InterVarsity Press, January 2007) Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford University Press, 2000). Study of Edwards’s battles with deism over reason, revelation and the religions. Can Evangelicals Learn from Non-Christian Religions? Jesus, Revelation and the Religions. (InterVarsity Press, 2000). First book-length evangelical reflection on the possibility of revelation in non-Christian religions. **Winner of Christianity Today’s 2001 Book Award for Missions & Global Affairs. One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Penn State Press, 1992). The first comprehensive study of Edwards’s socio- political theory. (with William Fintel, M.D.) A Medical and Spiritual Guide to Living with Cancer (Word Books, 1993). In-depth answers to both the medical and theological questions surrounding cancer. (with William Fintel, M.D.) Dear God, It’s Cancer (Word Books, 1997). 2d ed. of Living With Cancer. Contains updated medical chapters and new chapters on skin and ovarian cancer, hospice, and physician-assisted suicide. (with William A. Fintel, M.D.) Cancer: A Medical and Theological Guide for Patients and Their Families (Baker Books, June 2004). Contains updated medical chapters and new chapters on alternative medicine and the mind- body connection. Seeing God: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Discernment (Regent College Publishing, 2000; first edn. InterVarsity Press, 1995). A rewriting of Edwards’s Religious Affections, drawing on the masters of Christian spirituality and lessons from church history. Articles and Chapters “Testing Stark’s Thesis: Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?” in John W. Welch, ed., The Worlds of Joseph Smith (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2006), 271-92. “Reviving Disputation: Right and Wrong Ways to Think About Other Religions,” Pro Ecclesia XIV:4 (Fall 2005), 487-93 “Will Mormonism Become the Next Great World Religion?” Books and Culture 12:1 (Jan-Feb 2006), 9-11, 42-46. “The Eighteenth-Century Culture War: Thomas Jefferson and Jonathan Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” Litteraria Pragensia 15:29 (2005), 48-63. “Kein primitiver Glaube: Evangelikale widerlegen ein Vor-urteil und warden einflussreicher,” Confessio Augustana I (2005), 48-51. “Jesus and the Religions: My Response to Leicester Longden,” in Reformation and Revival (forthcoming) “Homosexuality: A Theological Analysis,” in Reformation and Revival (forthcoming) “Does Doctrine Matter?” The Anglican Digest 47:1 (Lent 2005), 47-48. “Missions, and Native Americans,” in Sang Hyun Lee, ed., The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, January 2005), 258-73. “Jonathan Edwards on Justification: Closer to Luther or Aquinas?” Reformation and Revival Journal 14:1 (2005), 119-38. “Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions,” in Kenneth Minkema and Harry Stout, eds., Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth (Lanham, Md., University Press of America, 2005), 65-85. “The Tension Between Land and Peace: Evangelical Christians, Israel, and the Jews,” in Center Conversations 25 (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, November 2003), 1-13. “Jonathan Edwards Responds to Deism,” Theology Matters 9:6 (Nov/Dec 2003), 9-12. “Jonathan Edwards, Theologian for the Church,” Reformation and Revival 12:3 (Summer 2003), 11-23. “Which Palestine? Whose Land? A Response to Doug Howard,” Fides et Historia XXXV:2 (Summer/Fall 2003), 79-84. “Jesus and the Religions: A New Paradigm for Christian Engagement?” Books and Culture (Jan./Feb. 2004), 9-11. “Jonathan Edwards, The American Mind,” The Weekly Standard (Oct. 20, 2003), 37-41. “Holy Pagans,” Christian History XXII:1 (February 2003), 38-39. “Poverty, Patriotism, and National Covenant: Jonathan Edwards and Public Life,” Journal of Religious Ethics 31:2 (Summer 2003), 229-51, 316-18. “Jonathan Edwards and the National Covenant: Was He Right?” in D.G. Hart et al, eds., The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, June 2003), 147-57. “Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, and Non-Christian Religions,” in Oliver Crisp and Paul Helm, eds., Jonathan Edwards, Philosophical Theologian (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) “Christ vs. Many Gods,” in Uwe Siemon-Netto, ed., One Incarnate Truth: Christianity’s Answer to Spiritual Chaos (St. Louis: Concordia, 2002), 57- 62. “The Land: Evangelicals and Israel,” Books and Culture 9:3 (March/April 2003), 8- 9,40-42. “What Is Fear of God?” The Anglican Digest 44:4 (Transfiguration 2002), 8-10. “Response to Gilbert: ‘The Nations Will Worship: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of the Heathen,’” Trinity Journal 23NS (2002), 77-80. “What If Paul Had Been From China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in Non-Christian Religions,” in John G. Stackhouse, ed., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001), 17-35. **This book won Christianity Today’s 2002 Book Award for Missions and Global Affairs. “Jesus Christ, Postmodern Pluralism and World Religions,” part of United Press International’s on-line “Christ and Postmodernity” series, January 2001, http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upisearch.cfm “Deism” (5000 words) in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (New York: Routledge, 2004), 568-74. “Persuasion and the Lutheran Academy,” in Mark Mattes, ed., Faith and Pedagogy (forthcoming) “What if Paul Had Gone to China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in the Religions” in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001). “A Possibility of Reconciliation: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non- Christians,” in Sang Lee and Alan Guelzo, eds. Edwards in our Time: Jonathan Edwards and Contemporary Theological Issues (Eerdmans, 1999), 173-202. “Jonathan Edwards and American Indians: ‘The Devil Sucks Their Blood,’” in The New England Quarterly 72:4 (Dec. 1999), 539-57. “The Tongue is a Witch: Speech and Power,” in Books and Culture 7:4 (July/August 2001), 37-8. “Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non-Christians,” in Pro Ecclesia IX:2 (Spring 2000), 208-27. “Jonathan Edwards, Deism, and the Mystery
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