Chris Firestone, PhD

Chris Firestone is associate professor of philosophy at Trinity College and has served the college since 1999. Professor Firestone earned the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the Master of Arts from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and earned the Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Chris Firestone came to Trinity with experience in teaching and research in Hong Kong and Scotland. At Trinity, he has worked at developing the "Trinity Debates" (an annual debate on perennial problems in philosophy and theology) and the "Trinity in Romania" program (an annual apologetics and outreach trip for faculty and students). His recent book, Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (coedited with Stephen R. Palmquist) is published with Indiana University Press (2006). His current projects include In Defense of Kant's Religion (coauthored with Nathan Jacobs), which is under review at Indiana University Press and estimated to be available in 2007, and Theology at the Transcendental Boundaries of Reason, which is contracted with Ashgate Publications Ltd. and due out in 2009. Chris a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and the North American Kant Society.

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