Professor C. Stephen Evans

I am Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University (in Waco, Texas), where I have taught since 2001. I also serve as a Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.  My major areas of research include the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, philosophy of religion, virtue ethics, and meta-ethics.  Prior to coming to Baylor, I taught at Wheaton College (1974-84), St. Olaf College (1984-94), where I served as Curator of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library as well as being a member of the Philosophy Department, and at Calvin College (now Calvln University, 1994-2001), where, besides teaching philosophy, I served three years as Dean for Research and Scholarship and was the inaugural holder of the William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar Chair, the first endowed chair at Calvin.  At Baylor I was named the Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year in 2018, the highest teaching award at the university.

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After graduating from Northside High School in Atlanta, I received my BA from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1969 and my Ph.D. from Yale University in philosophy in 1974 as a Danforth Fellow.  While at Wheaton, I met and married Jan (Walter) Evans in 1969. We will celebrate 50 years of happiness in the fall of 2019. We have three grown children, and two grandchildren. Jan (Ph.D. Michigan State) is Emeritus Professor of Spanish Literature at Baylor.  She is an expert on Miguel de Unamuno and has published two books on the Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet.

 

My published works include 20 single-authored books as well as five edited volumes. My latest book is Living Accountably: Accountability as a Virtue  (Oxford University Press, 2023).  Next most recent is Kierkegaard AND Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence., published with Eerdmans in 2019.   Prior to that I published a comprehensive history of Western thought, entitled A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Post Modernism (IVP Academic Press). My most recent scholarly monographs are God and Moral Obligation (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Natural Signs and Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments (Oxford University Press, 2010).  Other scholarly books include Kierkegaard: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2004); The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History  (Oxford University Press, 1996); Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments (Indiana University Press, 1992), and Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript: The Religious Philosophy of Johannes Climacus (originally published by Humanities Press in 1983; republished by Baylor University Press in 2018). More popular recent works include Why Believe? (Eerdmans); Pocket Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion and Apologetics (InterVarsity Press); and Why Christianity Still Makes Sense: A Response to Contemporary Challenges (Baker Academic Press).

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My Amazon Author Central URL is www.amazon.com/author/cstephenevans.com

 

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