Adam C. English
Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy
Full Professor of Theology and Philosophy
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC 27506
Work: (910) 893-1679
Cell: (910) 890-0857
[email protected]
Academic Specialization: History of Christian Thought
Teaching Competence: Constructive Theology, Historical Theology, Philosophy, Ethics
Denominational Affiliation: Licensed and Ordained Baptist Minister (LakeView Baptist
Church, Lake Fort Phantom, TX)
Education:
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Major: Systematic Theology
Full Outside Minor: Philosophy
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth
Major: Theology
Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene
Double Major: Applied Theology and English
1999-2003
Ph.D.
1996-1999
M.A. Th.
1993-1996
B.A.
Recent Positions Held:
Tenured, Full Professor, Campbell University (2003 – present)
Chair of the Department since 2015
Teach upper-level systematic and historical theology, philosophy,
Christian ethics, and Introduction to Christianity
Advise approximately fifteen undergraduate religion majors
Coach the Ethics Bowl team and advise Theta Alpha Kappa
Lead Study Abroad tours to Italy (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Serve on multiple university committees, including the Honors
Interdisciplinary Program, Retention Committee, and Faculty
Development and Research Committee, which I chair
Serve as interim pastor at Rowan Baptist Church, Clinton, NC (2015 – present)
Served as interim pastor at Westfield Baptist Church, Dunn, NC (2012-2014)
Served as interim pastor at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Willow
Springs, NC (2006-2008)
Adjunct Instructor, Baylor University (2002-2003)
Youth and Children's Minister, Garden Acres Baptist Church (1996-1999)
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient, 2014
Full Professorship: granted by the trustees of Campbell University, 2013
Spirit of St. Nicholas Award, St. Nicholas Institute, Livonia, MI, 2013
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient, 2013
Tenure: granted by the trustees of Campbell University, 2011
Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient, 2011
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Campbell Divinity School, 2010
Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient, 2010
Faculty Summer Research Grant Recipient, 2009
Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, April 2008
Selected to attend Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy, Regents Park, Oxford
University, U.K., August 3-7, 2005
Selected to attend Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy week-long seminar,
Georgetown, KY, June 9-13, 2004
Scholar in residence at the Hong and Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College,
Minnesota, 2000
Books
Christmas: Theological Anticipations (Cascade, forthcoming)
The Saint Who Would be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of St. Nicholas of Myra
(Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012)
Theology Remixed: Christianity as Story, Game, Language, Culture (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 2010)
The Possibility of Christian Philosophy: Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of
Philosophy and Theology, Routledge Radical Orthodoxy Series (New York:
Routledge Press, 2007)
Pocket History of Theology, by Roger Olson and Adam English (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 2005)
Articles and Essays
“Church Without Prisoners: On the Twentieth Anniversary of A Peculiar People” Review
& Expositor 112.3 (2015), 418-431.
http://rae.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/112/3/418.pdf?ijkey=wN7MIAy3ukdRxKs&ke
ytype=finite
“Alexander of Alexandria, Arius, and Theological Method,” Phronema 30.1 (2015), 122.
“Exemplification of Faith through Learning” Baptist Educator: News Journal of the
International Association of Baptist Colleges 77.2 (2013), 4.
“Christians and Guns,” Associated Baptist Press (April 26, 2013),
http://www.abpnews.com/opinion/commentaries/item/8443-christians-and-guns
“The Saint Who Would be Santa,” Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec 14, 2012), B10B11.
“My Take: The Christmas Message of St. Nicholas,” CNN Belief Blog (Dec 22, 2012),
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/22/my-take-the-christmas-message-of-thereal-st-nicholas/?hpt=hp_c1
“Will the Real St. Nick Please Stand Up?” Huffington Post (Dec 25, 2012),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-c-english/will-the-real-st-nick-please-standup_b_2362950.html
“The Cyrilian Solution: Cyril of Jerusalem and Saul Kripke on Naming God,” New
Blackfriars (July 9, 2012), available at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2011.01467.x/full
Appeared in print: New Blackfriars 94.1053 (Sept 2013), 569-582.
“Pastors: Give Students Ultimate Gift: Your Attention,” Biblical Recorder 178.11 (May
26, 2012), 11.
“Dolls, Divers and the Existence of God,” Immerse: A Journal of Faith, Life and Youth
Ministry 2.6 (March/April 2012), 34-38.
“Theology,” three chapters in Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Guide
for Students, Mercer University Press, 2010.
“The ‘Dark Knight’ of Free Will,” posted as an opinion on the Associated Baptist
website, August 5, 2008,
http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3453
&Itemid=9 Also published on the Counter Culture blogsite, August 17, 2008,
http://countercultureblog.com/?p=214
“’Science Cannot Stop With Science’: Maurice Blondel and the Sciences,” Journal of
the History of Ideas 69.2 (April 2008), 269-292.
“The New Academic Freedom and the Changing Face of Baptist Higher Education,”
The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on Scholarly Life in the
Baptist Academy, edited by Roger Ward and David Gushee (Macon: Mercer
Press, 2008).
“Advent prepares Christians to shatter porcelain icons,” Biblical Recorder (Nov 10,
2007), 10.
“You can incorporate Advent traditions at home,” Biblical Recorder (Nov 10, 2007), 10.
“Atheism on the Rise?” Biblical Recorder 173.14 (July 7, 2007), 3.
“A War of Words: Misdirected Christian Arguments in the Current Debate on War,”
Christian Ethics Today 12.5 (Christmas 2006), 12-15.
“A Conspiracy to Rival the Da Vinci Code,” Christian Ethics Today (May-June 2005),
27-8.
“Christian Reconstructionism after Y2K: Gary North, the New Millennium, and
Religious Freedom.” New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in
America. Edited by Derek Davis and Barry Hankins. Waco: Baylor University
Press, 2002; 2nd edition 2003.
“A Ketchup Bottle, Saint Paul, and a Good Joke: The Surprising Moral Value of Humor.”
Christian Ethics Today (October 2002), 26-7.
“Feeding Imagery in the Gospel of John.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 28.3 (Fall
2001), 203-214.
Reviews
Submissions reviewer for Perspectives in Religious Studies, May 2015, July 2015
Review of What Shall We Say? Evil, Suffering, and The Crisis of Faith, by Thomas Long,
Review and Expositor 109.2 (Spring 2012), 313-4.
Review of Creation and the God of Abraham. Edited by David B. Burrell et al. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and
Christian Views. Edited by Markus Bockmuehl and Guy Stroumsa. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. Perspectives in Religious Studies 38.3 (Fall
2011).
Review of De Lubac: A Guide for the Perplexed, by David Grumett, Silence, Love, and
Death: Saying “Yes” to God in the Theology of Karl Rahner, by Sharron CraigoSnell and Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? by John O’Malley et. al.
Perspectives in Religious Studies 37.1 (Spring 2010), 111-4.
Review of Against War, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Journal of Church and State
51.1 (Winter 2009), 152-4.
Review of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics: A Model for Post-Critical
Biblical Interpretation, by W. T. Dickens and The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs
von Balthasar, by Christopher Steck. Perspectives in Religious Studies 34.2
(Summer 2007), 257-9.
Review of Violence, Hospitality and the Cross, by Hans Boersma. Review and Expositor
103.4 (Fall 2006): 841-2.
Review of Theology after Ricoeur, by Dan Stiver. Review and Expositor 103.2 (Spring
2006): 436-8.
Review of the new Fortress edition of Ethics, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Christian Ethics
Today (Fall 2005), 29-30.
Review of Speech and Theology, by James K. A. Smith. Review and Expositor 102.2
(Spring 2005), 335-6.
Review of Being Reconciled, by John Milbank. Review and Expositor 101.4 (Fall 2004),
780-2.
Review of Introduction to Christian Theology edited by Roger Badham, The Twentieth
Century: A Theological Overview edited by Gregory Baum, and Theology and
Critical Theory 2nd ed.,Graham Ward. Perspectives in Religious Studies 28.2
(Summer 2001), 195-7.
Review of Deconstructing Jesus by Robert Price. Journal of Church and State 43.2
(Spring 2001), 347-8.
Review of What in the World is God Doing? by Lee Snook. Journal of Church and State
42.2 (Spring 2000), 369-70.
Professional Presentations:
Panel discussion participant, NABPR, Raleigh, NC, May 2015
“Alexander of Alexandria, Arius, and Theological Method” NABPR, Atlanta, GA, May
2014
“St. Nicholas,” St. Nicholas Institute, October, 2013, 2014
“The Cyrilian Solution,” presentation at the at-large meeting of NABPR, San Antonio,
TX, May 2012
National Youth Workers Convention, San Diego and Atlanta, invited speaker, September
and November 2011
“The Mill of the Mind,” CU Honor Program Annual Banquet, keynote speaker, April
2011
“The Cyrilian Solution: St. Cyril of Jerusalem on Naming God,” presentation at the
regional SECSOR meeting, Louisville, KY, March, 2011
“Theological Hermeneutics,” Big Tent Christianity Event, Raleigh, NC, September 2010
“Peter Brown Receives a Visit from St. Nick,” Presidential Address to the NABPR atlarge meeting, Portland, OR, June 2010
Book Discussion panel participation, College Theology Society, Portland, OR, June 2010
“Saints,” CU Honor Program Annual Banquet, keynote speaker, April 2010
“What Christianity is Like,” Bluefield College, invited lecture, November 5, 2007.
“Response to John Bartlett on Ecology and Moral Responsibility,” Campbell University
Faculty Orientation, August 18, 2006.
“The New Academic Freedom and the Changing Face of Baptist Higher Education.”
Presented at Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy, Regents Park, Oxford
University, August 4, 2005.
“Response to Curtis Freeman on Baptists and the Trinity,” NABPR Meeting at Large,
June 2005.
“A War of Words: Misdirected Christian Arguments in the Current Debate on War.”
Presented at Southwest Conference on Religious Studies, Dallas, March 2005.
“Maurice Blondel's Synthesis of the Natural Sciences and a Theistic Philosophy of
Action.” Presented at the Nineteenth Century Theology Group, AAR, in Toronto,
Canada, November, 2002. Also published in Papers of the Nineteenth Century
Theology Group 33 (Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 2002), 92-109.
“The Gift of Anxiety: At the Social Root of the Uneasy Practice of Giving in America.”
Presented with Nancy Spears at regional meeting of ASSR in Irving, TX, and
published in their proceedings, March 2002.
“Christian Reconstructionism after Y2K.” Presented at conference on New Religious
Movements and Religious Liberty, Waco, March 2001 and at national annual
meeting AAR in Denver, November 2001.
“Feeding Imagery in the Gospel of John.” Presented at national annual meeting SBL in
Nashville, November 2000.
Professional Memberships:
Theta Alpha Kappa, campus moderator, 2007-present
National Association of Baptist Professors, 2001-present
American Academy of Religion, 1995-2010, 2014-present
College Theology Society, 2011-present
Professional Activities:
Initiated and serve as co-editor for NABPR-endowed academic series with Mercer
University Press, “Perspectives on Baptist Identity,” 2015
Initiated the Zondervan Academic and Campbell University Award for Excellence in
Theological Studies 2013
Coach undergraduate debate team that competes every fall at the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Ethics Bowl and every spring at NCICU Ethics Bowl
Held offices in NABPR at Large, including Program Coordinator, Vice President, and
President, 2007-10
Paid consultant for Catholic University of America Press, the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, and InterVarsity Press
Presided over Theology and Philosophy of Religion meetings at SECSOR, 2008 and
2009
Started a local chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious
Studies, on behalf of our undergraduate students. I serve as the moderator and
advisor for this student honor society, since spring 2007.
Invited Attendee at Shaw University Workshop on Teaching Political Engagement, 2006
Served as paid consultant for Acumen Publishing, Limited, 2005.
Researcher at the Maurice Blondel Archives in Louvain-la-Nouve, Belgium, 2002
President of Graduate Theological Fellowship, Baylor, 2000-2
Created and led the Graduate Theological Colloquium, Baylor, 2001-2
Community Service:
Pastor Search Committee member, Memorial Baptist Church (2014-15)
Deacon, Memorial Baptist Church (2010-2014)
Board member, Buies Creek Recreation League (2009-2011)
I preach regularly in local churches
Served as faculty advisor for student-led Uncovered Bible Study, 2004-2008