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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
Academics
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
Admission & Financial Aid
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Student Life
Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Dr. John Allan Knight
Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Coordinator, Academic Lecture Series; Coordinator, Catholic Studies Program
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago
M.Div. University of Chicago
J.D. George Washington University
A.B. Southern Nazarene University
Selected Publications
Books
The Craft of Innovative Theology (co-edited with Ian S. Markham) (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
Liberalism vs. Postliberalism: The Great Divide in Twentieth Century Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Articles, Book Chapters
“Saying One Thing and Doing Another: The Supreme Court on Assessing the Reasonableness of Religious Beliefs” (in progress).
“Theological Language and Method in Liberal Theology: Schubert Ogden’s Response to the Falsification Controversy,” in Knight & Markham, The Craft of Innovative Theology (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
“Marshall’s Slingshot: Truth Theory, Realism, and Liberal Theological Method,” in Knight & Markham, The Craft of Innovative Theology (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
“The Return of Truth: Defending the Correspondence Theory After the Liberal/Postliberal Divide,” Religious Studies 56:4 (Dec. 2020): 578-595.
“Wittgenstein’s Web: Hans Frei and the Meaning of Biblical Narratives,” Journal of Religion 95 (July 2015): 337-60.
“Descriptivist Reference and the Return of Classical Theism,” in Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, ed. Jeanine Diller & Asa Kasher (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 207-24.
“The Barthian Heritage of Hans Frei,” Scottish Journal of Theology 61(3) (August 2008): 307-26.
“Why Not Davidson? Neopragmatism in Religious Studies and the Coherence of Alternative Conceptual Schemes,” Journal of Religion 88 (Apr. 2008): 159-89.
“Truth, Justified Belief, and the Nature of Religious Claims: Schubert Ogden’s Transcendental Criterion of Credibility,” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 27 (Jan. 2006): 55-83.
Shorter Publications
“When the Exception Swallows the Rule: Religious Schools No Longer Need to Comply with Anti-discrimination Laws in Hiring or Firing Teachers,” Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/how-religious-schools-have-insulated-themselves-discrimination-lawsuits (July 2020)
“Will the Supreme Court Grant Religious Schools Carte Blanche to Ignore Anti-discrimination Laws in Hiring and Firing?” The Living Church https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2020/07/08/will-the-supreme-court-grant-religious-schools-carte-blanche-to-ignore-anti-discrimination-laws-in-hiring-and-firing/ (July 2020)
“Tragedy,” in The New Dictionary of Theology, ed. Martin Davie, Tim Grass, Stephen R. Holmes, John McDowell and T. A. Noble (London: InterVarsity Press, 2016), 918-19.
“Response to Ian Markham,” Reviews in Religion and Theology 21:2 (2014): 179-81.
Review of Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine by Brian Hebblethwaite, Journal of Religion 87 (Oct. 2007): 645-46.