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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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Kerry Kuehn

Kerry Kuehn earned his B.S. from Cornell University (Applied and Engineering Physics), and his Ph.D. from the University of California in Santa Barbara (Physics). His laboratory work is primarily in the physics of fluids, and he has published work in journals including the Physical Review, the Review of Scientific Instruments, Icarus, and the Journal of Low Temperature Physics. He is the author of the acclaimed four-volume set titled A Student's Guide through the Great Physics Texts. Dr. Kuehn has served as Professor of Physics at Wisconsin Lutheran College for over two decades, where he has developed an introductory physics sequence based on the analysis and discussion of seminal ancient and modern scientific texts, including Aristotle’s Physics, Kepler’s New Astronomy, and Einstein’s Relativity. Dr. Kuehn is a member of both the American Physical Society and the Institute for Lutheran Apologetics. More information on Dr. Kuehn’s projects and activities can be found on his personal website: www.kerrykkuehn.com.

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Paul Gould

Paul Gould is a professor of Philosophy of Religion and the Director of the M.A. Philosophy of Religion (MAPR) program at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He received a B.A. from Miami University (Ohio), a M.A. in philosophy from Talbot School of Theology (Biola), and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University. Paul is the author or editor of eleven scholarly and popular-level books including A Good and True Story (Brazos, 2022), Cultural Apologetics (Zondervan, 2019), Philosophy: A Christian Introduction (Baker Academic, 2019) and The Story of the Cosmos (Harvest House, 2019). He has been a visiting scholar at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Henry Center, working on the intersection of science and faith, and is the founder and president of the Two Tasks Institute. He is a widely sought after speaker in apologetics and philosophy. He speaks regularly at universities, churches, and ministries around the country, including Summit Ministries, Impact 360, and the C.S. Lewis Institute.

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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