Craig Mitchell
Associate Professor of Ethics, Chair of the Ethics Department, and Associate Director of the Richard Land Center for Cultural Engagement
817-923-1921 ext.6775
A full-time faculty member since 2002, he teaches courses in Christian ethics and philosophy of religion. He is also a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Mitchell's PhD dissertation is titled Alvin Plantinga's Proper Functionalist Epistemology As A Model For Christian Ethics. His interests include Biblical ethics, Meta-ethics, political philosophy, hermeneutics, and epistomology.
Education
Ph.D., Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005.
M.A., Economics, University of Texas in Arlington, 2011
B.S., Electronic Engineering Technology, Savannah State College, 1980
2010 Summer Seminar on World Religions. Boston University: Institute on Culture, Religions, and World Affairs.
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas, 2001-02
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Weatherford College, Weatherford, Texas, 2000-02
Teaching Fellow and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Southwestern Seminary, 1996-2001
Ministry Experience
Associate Pastor, Discovery Church, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999-2003
Ordained: 1999, Discovery Church
Licensed: 1993, FSBC Lompoc, California
Other Experience
Director of Test Operations at Vandenberg Air Force Base for E'Prime Aerospace Corporation, 1993-95
U.S. Air Force officer: Program Manager and Test Engineer
1980-92, Active Duty
Currently: Major (Date of rank: 13 January 1995)
USAF Individual Ready Reserve (Inactive)
Tested and developed:
Ballistic missile systems (Minuteman, Peacekeeper)
Aircrew member who flight tested electronic warfare systems (B-1, B-2, B-52, and FB-111)
Spacecraft (Space Shuttle mission STS-39, Titan IV SRB)
Deployed and tested strategic command, control and communication system
Awards and Decorations:
Meritorious Service Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster
National Defense Service Medal
Association of Old Crows Gold Certificate of Merit
Books
Currently working on Christian Ethical Theory.
Charts for Philosophies and Philosophers. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.
Charts of Christian Ethics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.
Articles
ESV Study Bible. Crossway Books, October 2008 - 5 Articles. "Government," "War," "Racial Discrimination," "Stewardship," and "Biblical Ethics."
"Economic Justice," in Faith and Family Values, Issue 1, 2008. Pgs 8-9.
"The Problem with Aesthetics."
"Natural Law and Religious Liberty," First Freedom, edited by Thomas White, Jason Deusing, and Malcolm Yarnell, Broadman Holman, 2007.
Book Reviews
Book Review, published in the Southwestern Journal of Theology 2007, on Jewish Law in Gentile Churches by Marcus Bouckmuehl
Book review of Science and Faith published in Philosophia Christi, Fall 2002.
Papers presented
"Singleness" presented at the Baptist Distinctives Conference on the Family at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, September 2007.
"The Correspondence Theory of Truth Within the Analytic Tradion" presented at the International Society of Christian Apologetics in Kansas City, May 2007.
"Plantinga, Modality and Epistemology" presented during the Southwest regional Evangelical Theological Society meeting at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, March 2007.
"Modality and Morality" presented during the Greer-Heard Lectures/Evangelical PHilosophical Society meeting at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, February 2007.
"Compatibility between Theories of Truth and Theories of Knowledge," Presented at the National Evangelical Theological Society 2006.
"Response to Ashley Woodiwiss' Paper: 'Evangelicals and the Poor,'" Presented at the National ETS 2006.
"The Problem with Aesthetics," Presented at the National ETS 2006.
"Though Dead Yet Lives: The Problem of the Fact/Value Dichotomy," Southwestern Regional Evangelical Theological Society, 2006.
"Natural Law and Religious Liberty," Religious LIberty Conference, Southwestern Seminary, September 2005.
"Current Problems in Meta-Epistemology," southwestern regional Evangelical Theological Society, 2005.
"Aesthetics and Proper Function," southwestern regional Evangelical Theological Society, 2003.
"What if Einstein is Right? Implications for Philosophical Theology," southwestern regional Evangelical Theological Society, March 2002
"Divorce and Ministry," Theological Fellowship meeting, November 2000.
Memberships
Research Fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
