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Academy of Apologetics

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PROFESSORS

All the Professors in Residence are excellent communicators able to speak to individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds who attend the Academy.

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Craig Parton

Craig Parton is a trial lawyer and partner with Price, Postel & Parma LLP, the oldest law firm in the Western United States located in Santa Barbara, California, where he serves as Chairman of the Litigation Department. He is former Chairman of the Litigation Section of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association. Upon graduation from college, he spent seven years on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ (now Cru), the last four of which were spent as national lecturer for Crusade. Mr. Parton traveled to over 100 universities and colleges across the country defending the Christian faith through lectures and debates. He received his Master's degree in Christian Apologetics at the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, an institution devoted to the integration of Christian faith and legal reasoning.

 

Mr. Parton then took his Juris Doctorate at the University of  California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Journal, COMM/ENT. Craig Parton is also the Director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. The Academy meets for two weeks each summer in Strasbourg to provide advanced studies in apologetics to laymen and pastors. He is the author of The Defense Never Rests: A Lawyer Among the Theologians, Religion on Trial: Cross-Examining Religious Truth Claims, and most recently The Art of Christian Advocacy (2024) which he co-authored with John Warwick Montgomery. He has contributed to over 20 books and has published over 50 articles in legal, theological and cultural journals.

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Angus Menuge

Angus Menuge is professor and chair of philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Menuge is author of many journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and C. S. Lewis. He has broad interests in philosophical and theological anthropology, including the case for the soul and the case against various forms of materialism espoused inside and outside the church. He is editor of several books, including Reading God's World (Concordia Academic Press, 2004), Legitimizing Human Rights (Ashgate, 2013), Religious Liberty and the Law (Routledge, 2017), and, with J. P. Moreland and Jonathan Loose, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (Blackwell, 2018). Menuge is the author of Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and principal drafter of the LC-MS Commission on Theology and Church Relations report, In Christ All Things Hold Together: The Intersection of Science and Christian Theology (LC-MS, 2015).

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Dr. Michael Horton 

MICHAEL S. HORTON (Ph.D. Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media, along with its productions, White Horse Inn, Modern Reformation, Core Christianity, and Theo Global.

 

Dr. Horton has written and edited more than forty books, including award winning titles such as Justification (Vols. 1 & 2), The Christian Faith, and Prophet, Priest, and King: Christology in Global Perspective, as well as many popular titles, including Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World; Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church; and Putting Amazing Back Into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel.

 

His most recent book is Magician and Mechanic: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution, the second of three volumes on the intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture.

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Paul Copan

Paul Copan (Ph.D., Philosophy, Marquette University) is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida. He teaches in the M.A. in Philosophy of Religion at PBA, which also offers an undergraduate degree in Christian Apologetics.  For six years, he served as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

 

He is author or editor of 45 books, and various books of his have been translated into 15 languages. He has also contributed essays to over 70 books, both scholarly and popular, and he has written many articles published in professional journals. He has done work in the philosophy of religion, ethics, human dignity and rights, Old Testament ethical challenges, Christian apologetics, the impact of the Christian faith in history, Christian leadership, and various theological topics as well. His books include The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues, A Little Book for New Philosophers, Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics’ Toughest Questions, An Introduction to Biblical Ethics, Is God a Moral Monster? and Is God a Vindictive Bully?   

 

Paul is currently chair of the Tyndale Fellowship Philosophy of Religion Study Group (UK). In 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and once again at Oxford (Oriel College) in 2024. Paul and his wife, Jacqueline, have six children, and they reside in West Palm Beach, Florida. His website is www.paulcopan.com

Faculty and Patrons

  • John A. Bloom, M. Div., Ph.D.

  • Ross Clifford, M.A., D.Th.

  • Paul Copan, Ph.D.

  • William A. Dembski, Ph.D.

  • Gary Habermas, M.A., Ph.D.

  • Craig Hazen, Ph.D.

  • Michael Horton, Ph.D.

  • Willy Humbert, Sc.D.

  • Philip Johnson, B.D.

  • Gregory Koukl, M.A.

  • Angus Menuge, Ph.D.

  • Craig Parton, M.A., J.D.

  • John Warwick Montgomery, Ph.D., D.Théol., LL.D. 

    • d. 9-25-2024​

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We are looking forward to hearing from you and will respond to inquiries as soon as possible.

Craig A Parton

Director, International Academy of Apologetics

805-882-9822

Ellen Parton

Academy Administrator

805-689-0054

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