Chris Firestone, PhD

Associate Professor of Philosophy
1999

BA, BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
PhD, University of Edinburgh

Professor Firestone came to Trinity with experience in teaching and research in Hong Kong and Scotland. At Trinity, he has worked at developing the “Trinity Debates” (an annual debate on perennial problems in philosophy and theology) and the “Trinity in Romania” program (an annual apologetics and outreach trip for faculty and students). His most recent books are Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion, coedited with Stephen R. Palmquist (Indiana University Press, 2006), Theology at the Transcendental Boundaries of Reason (Ashgate Publications Ltd., 2007), and In Defense of Kant’s Religion, coauthored with Nathan Jacobs (Indiana University Press, 2008). Chris is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and the North American Kant Society.