Richard Mouw
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| Full name | Richard Mouw |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Calvinist, Christian Philosophy |
| Main interests | Common Grace |
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Richard John Mouw (born April 22, 1940) is currently President at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also holds the post of Professor of Christian Philosophy.
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[edit] Education and career
Mouw received the B.A from Houghton College. He then studied at Western Theological Seminary. He was awarded the M.A. from the University of Alberta, and his PhD. degree from the University of Chicago.
Mouw was Professor of Christian philosophy at Calvin College for seventeen years. He has also served as a visiting professor to the Free University of Amsterdam. He was appointed Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1985. In 1993 he was elected president of Fuller Theological Seminary.
In 2007, Mouw was awarded the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology. [1]
[edit] Views
[edit] Dialogue with Catholics
In 2009, he signed a public statement encouraging all Christians to "read, wrestle with, and respond to Caritas in Veritate", the social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI.[2]
[edit] Dialogue with Mormons
In November 2004, Mouw offered introductory remarks at a speaking event where the Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias was the featured speaker at the Salt Lake Tabernacle at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.[3][4] In his remarks, he apologized to Mormons for the way in which many evangelicals have treated the Mormon faith.[3][4]
[edit] Writings
- Political Evangelism (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1973).
- Politics and the Biblical Drama (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1976).
- Called to Holy Worldliness (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
- Objections to Christianity (Grand Rapids: Bible Way, 1981).
- When The Kings Come Marching In: Isaiah and the New Jerusalem (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1983).
- Distorted Truth: What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Battle for the Mind (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989).
- Stained Glass: Worldviews and Social Science, ed. with Paul A. Marshall and Sander Griffioen (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989).
- The God Who Commands (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1990).
- Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992).
- Pluralisms and Horizons: An Essay in Christian Public Philosophy, with Sander Griffioen (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1993).
- Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1994).
- The Smell of Sawdust: What Evangelicals Can Learn from Their Fundamentalist Heritage (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000).
- He Shines in all that's Fair: Culture and Common Grace (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2001).
- Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology, with Mark A. Noll (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2004).
- Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport: Making Connections in Today's World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004).
- Praying at Burger King (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2007).
- "Foreword" in The New Mormon Challenge, Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser and Paul Owen, eds. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), pp. 11–13.
[edit] References
- ^ "Awards and Prizes". Princeton Theological Seminary. http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/kuyper/grants.aspx?menu=298&subText=470.
- ^ Evangelical scholars call for broad discussion of Pope's social encyclical
- ^ a b Olson, Ted (November 2004). "Weblog: Ravi Zacharias, Rich Mouw Speak in Mormon Tabernacle". Christianity Today. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/novemberweb-only/11-15-11.0.html. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ a b Moore, Carrie A. (November 14, 2004). "Evangelical preaches at Salt Lake Tabernacle". Deseret News. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,595105580,00.html.
