Douglas Groothuis

Douglas R. Groothuis (born 1957) is currently Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary.

Groothuis was a campus pastor for twelve years prior to obtaining a position as an associate professor of philosophy of religion and ethics at Denver Seminary in 1993. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon. He is married to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis.

During the late-1980's Groothuis emerged as a younger voice in Christian evangelicalism with two books that described and analyzed New Age spirituality: Unmasking the New Age and Confronting the New Age. These texts catapulted him to some prominence in the Christian countercult movement as an authority on New Age. In subsequent books he pursued specific topics in New Age spirituality such as claims that Jesus spent his adolescent years studying among Hindu and Buddhist teachers in India and Tibet in Revealing the New Age Jesus. The phenomena of near-death experiences and the claims of Betty Eadie about the afterlife were the subject of his analysis in Deceived by the Light.

In the 1990s Groothuis began to write about the cultural shifts associated with postmodern philosophy in his book Truth Decay, as well as to formulate responses to those shifts via Christian apologetics. He was also interested in human behavior and belief associated with the use of the Internet, and wrote of his theological concerns in The Soul in Cyberspace. His interests in philosophy have also led him to write on topics like Immanuel Kant's epistemology, the rationality of theism, and book-length treatments of the philosophical ideas and methods of Pascal and Jesus. In 2011, Groothuis published a comprehensive textbook on Christian apologetics.

In his teaching career at Denver Seminary, he has taught graduate courses in Christian Apologetics, Problems in Apologetics, Issues in Philosophy of Religion, Christian Ethics and Modern Culture, and Religious Pluralism, among many others. He is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the Evangelical Philosophical Society, has published eleven books and contributed to many others, and has written numerous articles, book reviews, and editorials. Articles have appeared in periodicals such as Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Philosophia Christi, and the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Professor Groothuis' areas of specialization include:

Ethics and Contemporary Culture
History of Modern Philosophy
Pascal
Philosophy of Religion

He is also knowledgeable in the areas of the philosophy of technology, epistemology, contemporary religious movements, and world religions. He is a staunch adherent to Biblical Christianity.

His website has articles under the following subjects:

Apologetics
Articles on Other Websites
Bibliographies and Outlines
Book Reviews
Ethics
Interviews
Philosophy
Poetry & Music
Social Commentary

Groothuis counts the following as influential authors:

External links

Doug Groothuis.com Groothuis's homepage
The Constructive Curmudgeon Groothuis' blog
[1] Author's page at Access Research Network
Apologetic Lectures Groothuis' lectures on apologetics (mp3 format)

Bibliography

Christianity That Counts (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994). ISBN 0801038685
Confronting the New Age (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1988). ISBN 0830812237
Deceived by the Light (Eugene: Harvest House, 1995). ISBN 1565073010
On Jesus (South Melbourne and Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003). ISBN 0534583946
On Pascal (South Melbourne and Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003). ISBN 0534583911
Revealing the New Age Jesus (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990). ISBN 0830812989
The Soul in Cyberspace (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997). ISBN 0801057604
Truth Decay (Downers Grive: InterVarsity Press, 2000). ISBN 0830822283
Unmasking the New Age (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1986). ISBN 0877845689
In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment, co-edited with James F. Sennett (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005)ISBN 0830827676
Jesus in an Age of Controversy" (Wipf & Stock, 2002). ISBN 1579108695
Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2011) ISBN 9780830839353

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