Dr. Robert B. Stewart
Dr. Robert B. StewartAssociate Professor of Philosophy and Theology, occupying the Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture
Chair: Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture

Office: Dodd 107
Office Phone: (504) 2824455 ext. 8017
Fax: (504)286-3639
Home Phone:
E-Mail: rstewart@nobts.edu

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (Music Performance), Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, 1980
  • Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992
  • Doctor of Philosophy, (Theology) Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, May, 2000
  • Continuing Education, Oxford Summer School in Religious Studies, Wadham College, Oxford, Summer, 1997
  • Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Spring, 1995, D.Min. Seminar, Theology of Karl Barth
  • University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, Summer 1996, Ph.D. Seminar, Cultural Anthropology: New Ethnology
  • The Lord is My Light—RZIM Summer School, Keble College, Oxford University, 2005
  • Oxford Summer School in Religious Studies, Wadham College, Oxford, Summer, 1997

Publications

Presentations

  • "Is Mormonism Christian?: An Evangelical Critique of Mormon Scholar Stephen E. Robinson’s Arguments for Viewing Mormonism as Christian" at the 1997 National Evangelical Theological Society Meeting, November 1997, as well as at 1998 Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society
  • "Athanasius, Where Are You?: How Should the Church Respond to Mormonism?" at the 1998 Evangelical Ministries to New Religions Conference, as well as at the Society for the Study of New Religions Conference section of the 1998 Evangelical Theological Society national meeting
  • "An Evangelical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Hermeneutic" at the 1998 Evangelical Theological Society Naional Meeting
  • "O’ You Take the Wredebahn, and I’ll Take the Schweitzerbahn, and I’ll Get to Jesus Before You: N. T. Wright’s Vision of an Apocalyptic Jesus," at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society
  • Panelist, Round Table Discussion of How Wide the Divide: A Mormon and an Evangelical in Coversation (Craig L. Blomberg and Stephen E. Robinson, 1997, IVP) at the 1997 National Meeting of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions
Courses Taught

PhD Seminars: The Historical Jesus; The Doctrine of God; Theology of Religions; Contemporary Issues in Theology: Atheism and Relativism PhD Reading Colloquia: Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, Philosophical Theology

MDIV Courses: Introduction to Philosophy of Religion; Christian Apologetics; The Problem of Evil; God in Contemporary Philosophical Thought; Advanced Christian Apologetics: History and Method; Contemporary Philosophical Hermeneutics; World Religions; Systematic Theology I; Systematic Theology II; Theology of Cults; Counterfeits and Countercultures: The Continuing Challenge of Cults and New Religions in the Twenty-first Century (Interfaith Evangelism Workshop in Phoenix, AZ June 11-14, 2003); Logic and the Christian Faith; The Historical Jesus.

Baccalaureate Courses: Christian Doctrine; Theology of Cults

Membership and Awards

Executive Committee Member, Evangelical Philosophical Society, 2005 to present

Vice-president, Society for the Study of Alternative Religion, 2003-2005

Board Member, Evangelical Ministries to New Religions

Board Member, Watchman Fellowship, Inc.

Member: Evangelical Theological Society, 1996-present

American Academy of Religion, 1996-present

Society of Biblical Literature, 1996-present

Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, 1997-present

Evangelical Philosophical Society, 1998-present

Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers, 1998-present

Society for the Study of Alternative Religions, 1998-present

Society of Christian Philosophers, 1999-present

Ola Farmer Lenaz Lecture Respondent, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Fall 1999

Ola Farmer Lenaz Lecture Respondent, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Spring 2001

Who’s Who Among College and University Students in America, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994-1995, 1996-1997

Book Reviews


Craig L. Blomberg and Stephen E. Robinson, How Wide the Divide?: A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation, in Southwestern Journal of Theology 41.1 (Fall 1998): 124-25.

James D. Chancellor, Life in The Family: An Oral History of the Children of God. New Religious Movements. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000, in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 5.2 (Summer 2001): 103-4.

Carey C. Newman, ed., Jesus and the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 44.2 (June 2001): 333-35.

Ted Peters, God: The World’s Future: Systematic Theology for a New Era. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000, in Southwestern Journal of Theology 44.2 (Spring 2002): 99-100.

Ted Peters, God: The World’s Future: Systematic Theology for a New Era. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000, in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 6.2 (Summer 2002): 91-92.

John G. Stackhouse, ed., Evangelical Futures: A Conversation on Theological Method, in Southwestern Journal of Theology 45.1 (Fall 2002): 94-95.
And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.

1 John 2:28 (NIV)