With degrees in philosophy, theology and chemisty, Dr. Moreland brings erudition, passion, and his distinctive ebullience to the end of loving God with all of one's mind.
Moreland received his B.S. in Chemistry (with honors) from the University of Missouri, his M.A. in Philosophy (with highest honors) from the University of California, Riverside, his Th.M. in Theology (with honors) from Dallas Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California. Dr. Moreland has taught theology and philosophy at several schools throughout the U.S. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University's Talbot School of Theology.
If you take a poll in a typical Christian congregation, you will discover that the majority of church members have had very deep encounters with ... » Go
Denying the existence and emergence of morality and ethics, Naturalism, a growing worldview, proves inadequate in explaining human nature and its qualities. Having examined the ... » Go
Scientific Naturalism is a worldview that is powerfully influencing our culture today. So much so that even believers in one and the same God struggle ... » Go
Moreland defines what he calls philosophical apologetics as "a philosophical activity which has as its goal (or perhaps as its result) the increasing or maintaining ... » Go
A widely adopted approach to end-of-life ethical questions fails to make explicit certain crucial metaphysical ideas entailed by it and when those ideas are clarified, ... » Go
Is there evidence from natural science for an intelligent creator of the universe? For a century the reigning scientific view has been that God is ... » Go
My intention here is not merely to raise another round of controversy about creation and evolution. Rather, I would argue that the nature of creation ... » Go
Among other things, scientists try to solve both empirical and conceptual problems. Conceptual problems, in turn, are of two basic types: internal and external. In ... » Go
There has been a growing debate about the proper way to integrate science and theology. On the one side are those who accept a complementarity ... » Go
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil ... » Go
In a lively debate, which includes questions from the audience, Christian philosopher and ethicist J.P. Moreland and Kai Neilsen, one of today’s best-known atheist philosophers, ... » Go
In Part One of this series I examined two central aspects of the euthanasia debate. First, several important background concepts in ethical theory were explained. ... » Go
The Goal Of Normative ethics is to develop a comprehensive, coherent system of morality that answers difficult questions. For advocates of biblical Christianity, whatever system ... » Go
In June of 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a 63-year-old retired pathologist, was charged with first-degree murder after he helped an Oregon woman with Alzheimer’s disease ... » Go
On December 2, 1982, 62-year-old Barney Clark became the first human to receive a permanent artificial heart. In addition he was given a key that ... » Go
This work is an introductory treatment of issues and options in social and bioethics which center on the end of life. Moreland and Geisler have ... » Go
What kinds of things are redness, hairiness, and humanness. We take such things for granted. And yet, there is great controversy about the ontological nature ... » Go
In recent years, there has been tremendous growth in the number of Bioethics Committees in acute and long term health care facilities. Since these committees ... » Go
This work is a technical monograph in pragmatist, process metaphysics. It seeks to answer this question: Given the inadequacies of materialism and classical dualism, can ... » Go
It is well known that the various forms of process thought are agreed in denying the existence of an enduring self which maintains absolute identity ... » Go
Moreland’s work must be considered one of the premier works on apologetics written by an evangelical. Although William Lane Craig is probably now worthy to ... » Go
In recent years, scholars arguing against a conservative understanding of biblical inerrancy have appealed to a wide range of issues. It has been argued, for ... » Go