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Ronney B. Mourad
Department Chair and
Associate Professor
Email:
rmourad@albion.edu
Phone: 517/629-0354
Office: 210 Vulgamore Hall
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Dr. Ron Mourad specializes in the philosophy of
religion and Christian theology. While teaching a broad range of
courses in these areas, his scholarship focuses on the epistemology of
religion and its implications for theological method. In particular, he
has written about religious uses of transcendental arguments, Reformed
epistemology, religious experience and Christian mysticism, the ethics
of belief, the place of religious convictions in political and academic
discourse, and the distinctiveness of theological criteria of truth. He
is currently collaborating on a book about Jeanne Guyon, a
seventeenth-century Christian mystic.
Courses
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RS101 Introduction to Western Religions
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RS131 Introduction to Christian Thought
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RS232 Faith and Reason
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RS234 Philosophy of Religion
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RS242 Christian Ethics
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RS250 Mysticism and Ecstasy
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RS270 Liberation Theology
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LA101 Religion and Science
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HSP135 Religion and Politics
Education
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Ph.D. Philosophy of Religion, University of
Chicago, 2002
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M.A. Divinity, University of Chicago, 1995
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B.A. Religious Studies, University of North
Caroline at Chapel Hill, 1994; graduated summa cum laude and
with distinction
Career
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Associate Professor, Department of Religious
Studies, Albion College, 2007-present.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Religious
Studies, Albion College, 2001-2007.
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Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Calvin College, 1998
Publications
Books

Transcendental Arguments and Justified Christian
Belief, University Press of America, 2005
Journal articles
- “Choosing to
Believe,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
(forthcoming).
- “Argumentative
Justification and Religious Experience,” Journal of Religion,
July 2005.
- “Proper Function and
Justified Christian Belief,” Journal of Religion, October 2001.
- “Credibility and
Warrant in Theology: An Epistemological Synthesis,” American
Journal of Theology and Philosophy, May 2000.
Book Reviews
- Review of Stephen
Davis’s Christian Philosophical Theology in the Journal of
Religion (forthcoming).
- Review of J. L. Schellenberg’s Prolegomena to
a Philosophy of Religion in the Journal of Religion,
January 2007.
- Review of William
Rowe’s Can God Be Free? in the Journal of Religion, October 2005.
- Review of Paul Helm,
Faith with Reason in the Journal of Religion, April
2002.
- Review of Sue
Patterson, Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age in
the Journal of Religion, April 2001.
Conference Papers
- “Choosing to
Believe,” Claremont Philosophy of Religion Conference, Claremont,
California, 2007.
- "Christian Reasons,
Secular Reason," Midwest American Academy of Religion Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, 2005.
- "Language Use as a
Transcendental-Pragmatic Condition of Experience," National American
Academy of Religion Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2004.
- "University Theology
and Public Religion," Midwest American Academy of Religion Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, 2004.
- "Justifying the
Justification of Christian Beliefs," Midwest American Academy of
Religion Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2003.
- "Theology as a
Public Medium," Midwest American Academy of Religion Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois, 2002.
- "Schubert Ogden's
Criteria of Credibility," Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago,
2000.
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