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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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