Steve Cowan

Office : 205-970-9227
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Email : scowan@sebc.edu

Steve Cowan served as an adjunct instructor at Southeastern Bible College for five years until joining the faculty full-time in June 2006. Steve is the advisor for the College’s apologetics minor and teaches courses in philosophy and apologetics.

Steve is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi (B.A., 1987), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1991), and the University of Arkansas (M.A., 1993; Ph.D., 1996). He has been married to Ronda since 1986 and has one son born in 2005. He is a member of Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. Steve also serves as the Associate director of the Apologetics Resource Center in Birmingham, Alabama and edits their Areopagus Journal.


Dr. Cowan is a big fan of movies and Doo Wop Music and loves to read science fiction and military history. He is (slowly) working on his own science fiction novel that he hopes to publish in his lifetime.

View Dr. Cowan's personal blog at www.cowanchronicles.blogspot.com.

Dr. Cowan’s publications include the following:


BOOKS

With James S. Spiegel, The Love of Wisdom A Christian Introduction to Philosophy. (Broadman-Holman, 2009).

Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government (Zondervan, 2004).

Five Views on Apologetics (Zondervan, 2000).


ARTICLES

“Common Misconceptions of Evangelicals Regarding Calvinism,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 33:2 (June 1990): 189-195.

“’Aristotelian’ Logic in the Old Testament: A Biblical Refutation of a Strict Dichotomy Between Greek and Hebrew Thought,” Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 14:2 (1991): 21-30.

“A Reductio ad Absurdum of Divine Temporality,” Religious Studies, 32:4 (September 1996): 371-378.

“God, Libertarian Agency, and Scientific Explanations: Problems for J.P. Moreland’s Strategy for Avoiding the God of the Gaps,” Philosophia Christi 4:1, Series 2 (2002): 125-137.

“The Grounding Objection to Middle Knowledge Revisited,” Religious Studies 39:1 (January 2003): 93-102.

“The Question of Moral Values,” in The Big Argument: 24 Scholars Explore Why Science, Archaeology, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God, eds. Michael Westacott and John Ashton (Strand, 2005).

“’It Would Have Been Good for that Man if He Had not Been Born’: Human Sinfulness and Hell as a Horrendous Evil,” Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 10:1, (2008).

"Molinism, Meticulous Providence, and Luck," in Philosophia Christi 11:1 (2009).

"On Target with 'Molinism, Meticulous Providence, and Luck': A Rejoinder to Scott A. Davison," Philosophia Christi 11:1 (2009).

"Making a Case for the Inspiration of Scripture in the Current Milieu" Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 2:1 (2009).

"The Metaphysics of Subordination: A Response to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis," The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 14:1 (Spring 2009).

BOOK REVIEWS

Of Richard Swinburne’s The Christian God in Philosophia Christi 19:2 (Fall 1996).

Of David K. Clark’s Dialogical Apologetics in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43:2 (June 2000).

Of Roy A. Varghese’s Theos, Anthropos, Christos in Philosophia Christi 3:2, Series 2 (2001).

Of Paul Copan’s That’s Just Your Interpretation: Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith in Philosophia Christi 5:1, Series 2 (2003).

Of Kenneth Boa and Robert M. Bowman’s Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity in Philosophia Christi 6:2, Series 2 (2004).

Of Norman L. Geisler’s Chosen But Free: A Balanced View of Divine Election in Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 9:1 (2007).

Of Gary Habermas and Michael Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus in Philosophia Christi, Series 2, 9:2 (2007).

Of Kenneth Samples’, A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test in Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics 1:1 (2008).