Melville Y. Stewart

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Melville Y. Stewart is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Adjunct at Bethel University 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 in 1986.

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His main areas of interest are philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, science and religion, and Chinese philosophy. He taught at Bethel University (1972-1999), chaired the Department (1985-1992), received the Excellence in Scholarship Award in 1996, and in 1999 became Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. From 2000-2003 he served as Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Thomas. Outside the U.S., he taught a year in the Department of Philosophy at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia (1992-93), and the spring term of 2003 as Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg Christian College. In the spring term of 1993 he conducted the first Russia Symposium from which others sponsored by the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) have followed, and he began the China Symposia in the fall term of 1994, from which SCP symposia have followed every year since. He has taught 7 terms in China beginning at Peking University as a Pew Scholar the fall term of 1996, then as a Fulbright Scholar the fall term of 2001, and then as a United Board Scholar (UBS) the spring term of 2004. He then taught the fall term as a UBS at Shandong University in 2004, and then was a Templeton Visiting Scholar (TVS) at Wuhan University the fall term of 2005. He was a TVS at Fudan University, Shanghai the fall term of 2006, a TVS at Shandong University in Jinan, the fall term of 2007, and is invited as a TVS at Peking University for the fall terms of 2008 and 2009. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the SCP (1996-98), Chair of the SCP Russia Committee, Chair of the SCP China Committee, and as 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. He has presented papers at three International Beijing Forums in 2004, 2005, and 2007. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Capella University, and Templeton Visiting Philosopher at various universities in 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. ISBN 0-312-08095-6.
  • Проблемы Христианской Философии (Problems in Christian Philosophy), Moscow: Progress Academy Press, 1994, in Russian, co-editor with Dan Clendenin. ISBN 5-85864-071-0.
  • Philosophy of Religion, An Anthology of Contemporary Views, editor, in the Jones and Bartlett Series in Philosophy, 780 pages, second printing, Wadsworth Press, 1996 《当代西方宗教哲学》, Chinese Edition, Peking University Press, the Waiming Translation Library,2001, English, J & B, ISBN 0-534-54263-8, Wadsworth, ISBN 0-86720-512-1, Chinese, ISBN 7-301-04731-2.
  • 《东西方宗教伦理及其他》(East and West Religious Ethics and Other Essays), Peking Symposium III, Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1997, in Chinese, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang (Peking University), ISBN 7-80109-198-1/B 10. The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vol. 3: East and West Religious Ethics and Other Essays, Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, harcover, 1999, ISBN 13: 9781573092623.
  • East & West Philosophy of Religion, Peking Symposium I, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang, Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1998. ISBN 1-57309-260.
  • The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosphy and Religious Studies, Vol. 2: East and West Philosophy of Religion and Other Essays, Peking Symposium II. Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, hardcover, 1998, ISBN 13: 9781573092616.
  • 《欧美哲学与宗教讲演录》(Lectures on European and American Philosophy and Religion), Peking IV Symposium. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998, in Chinese, co-editor with Zhao Dunhua (Peking University). ISBN 7-301-03657-4.
  • Искупление (The Atonement), co-editor with Natalia Pecherskaya (Rector, St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy), St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy Publishers, 1999. ISBN 5-900291-14-6. The Atonement, co-editor with Natalia Pecherskaya (Rector, St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy), Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, hardcover, 1998, ISBN 13: 9781573092630.
  • 《宗教与科学的对话》(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). ISBN 7-5615-1989-3/B-76.
  • The Trinity: East/West Dialogue, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, editor. ISBN 1-4020-1728-6. Пресвятая Троица, Russian edition editor, Alexander Kierlezhev, no ISBN #.
  • 《东西宗教信仰之间的对话》(Interfaith Dialogue: East and West), Beijing: Social Science Publishers, 2004, in Chinese, co-editor with Fu Youde (Shandong University) and Kelly James Clark. ISBN 7-5004-4201-7/B.
  • Philosophy of Religion, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, co-editor with Xing Taotao (Peking University). ISBN 7-301-09572-4/B-0333.
  • 《科学与宗教的对话》(Science and Religion in Dialogue), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007, in Chinese, co-editor with Changchi Hao (Wuhan University). ISBN 978-7-301-12811-4.

Forthcoming:

  • 《科学与宗教：21 世纪对话》(Science and Religion: 21st Century Dialogue), in Chinese, co-editor with Xu Yingjin (Fudan University), August, 2008, Shanghai: Fudan University Press.
  • 《科学与宗教：当代对话》(Science and Religion: Current Dialogue), co-editor with Fu Youde (Shandong University), fall, 2008, Peking University Press.
  • 《科学与宗教：21 世纪的问题》(Science and Religion: 21st Century Issues), co-editor with Xing Taotao (Peking University), 2009, Peking University Press.
  • 《科学与宗教：当代争论》(Science and Religion: Current Debate), co-editor with Xing Taotao (Peking University), 2009, Peking University Press.
  • Blackwell Series: Science and Religion, English Edition of the 66 papers included in the 5-Volume Chinese Science and Religion Series will appear in a 2-volume clothbound set,Science and Religion in Dialogue, 2009, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
  • Dictionary of Western Philosophy, English/Pinyin/Chinese, Melville Y. Stewart, Yingjin Xu, co-authors, Peking University Press.
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