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.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1997
• M.A., Management Information Systems, West Coast University, 1993
• M.S., Engineering Management, West Coast University, 1991
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, 1985
• B.S., Electronic Engineering Technology, Savannah State College, 1980

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, Zondervan, 2007.
• Charts of Christian Ethics, Zondervan,February 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
• Evangelical Theological Society
• Evangelical Philosophical Society
• Society of Christian Philosophers
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Center for Bio-ethics and Human Dignity

Church Membership

• Wedgewood Baptist Church

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