Melville Y. Stewart

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Melville Y. Stewart is Professor of Philosophy at Bethel College in Minnesota. He has a B.A. from Gordon College, an M. Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, an S.T.M. from Andover Newton Theological School, an M.A. from the University of Connecticut, a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and he did post-doctoral work at Oxford.

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His main areas of interest are philosophy of religion, epistemology and metaphysics. He taught at Bethel University (1972-1999), chaired the Department (1985-1992) and received the Excellence in Scholarship Award, 1996, then served as Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Thomas (1999-2002). He served as Visiting Professor at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia (1992-93), Adjunct at St. Petersburg Christian College (1993) and has taught at Peking University (Pew Scholar in 1996, Fulbright Scholar in 2001, United Board Scholar in 2004), Central University of the Nationalities (1996), Shandong University (United Board Scholar in 2004), and Wuhan University (Templeton recipient in 2005). He is also a Templeton recipient of a grant covering a 4-year proposal to teach at 4 of China's universities and to conduct a Science and Religion Series (2006-2009) to be held at these 4 universities. In 1987 and 1988 he hosted the Midwestern Regional meetings of the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP), and in 1993, 1997, 2001, read papers at the SCP symposia in Russia, and chaired a session in 2005 in Moscow, and has chaired and been a member of the Russia Committee of the SCP (1993-). He has been Co-chair of the China Committee since 1994, and presented papers at symposia in China nearly every year since 1994. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the SCP (1996-98), a member of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association (1998-2001). From 1999-2001, he served on the Board of Trustees of The MacLauren Institute. In 2004, he was invited (by the President of Peking University) as a presenter at the International Beijing Forum, again in 2005, and is invited again to the Philosophy session in 2007. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Bethel University, Augsburg College/Capella University, and is invited to be a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University, fall term, 2006, Shanghai, P. R. China. He has read papers at 28 universities outside the U.S., including Moscow State University (1992), Novosibirsk State University (1993), Edinburgh University (1993), the University of Hong Kong (1997), Oxford University (1998), and the University of London (1998).

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• The Greater-Good Defence, An Essay on the Rationality of Faith, London:Macmillan//New York: St. Martin's, 1993, author.
• Problems in Christian Philosophy, Moscow: Progress Academy Press, 1994, in Russian, co-editor with Dan Clendenin.
• East and West Religious Ethics and Other Essays, Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1997, in Chinese, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang (Peking University).
• East & West Philosophy of Religion, Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1998, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang.
• Lectures on European and American Philosophy and Religion, Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998, in Chinese, co-editor with Zhao Dunhua (Peking University).
• The Atonement, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy Publisher, 2000, in Russian, co-editor with Natalia Pecherskaya (Director, St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy).
• Philosophy of Religion, An Anthology of Contemporary Views, Boston: Jones and Bartlett, Belmont: Wadsworth, 1996, English, Chinese Edition, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2001, editor.
• A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 2000, in Chinese, co-editor with Zhou Jianzhang (Xiamen University) and Kelly James Clark (Calvin College).
• The Trinity: East/West Dialogue, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, editor.
• Interreligious Dialogue, Beijing: Social Science Publishers, 2004, in Chinese, co-editor with Fu Youde (Shandong University) and Kelly James Clark.
• Philosophy of Religion, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, co-editor with Xing Taotao (Peking University).
• Science and Religion in Dialogue, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2006, in Chinese, English Edition forthcoming by a Western Publisher, co-editor with Changchi Hao (Wuhan University).