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Kelly James Clark (born March 3, 1956)  is an American philosopher noted for his work in the philosophy of religion, science and religion, & the cognitive science of religion. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute and Professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids Michigan.

Biography
Clark received his Phd from the University of Notre Dame where his dissertation advisor was Alvin Plantinga. He has held professorships at Calvin College, Oxford University, University of St. Andrews, Notre Dame & Gordon College. He also served as Executive Director for the Society of Christian Philosophers from 1994-2009.

Clark's books include Religion and the Sciences of Origins, Abraham’s Children, Return to Reason, The Story of Ethics, When Faith Is Not Enough, and 101 Key Philosophical Terms of Their Importance for Theology, many of which have been translated into multiple languages. In 1995, his book Philosophers Who Believe was named one of Christianity Today’s Books of the Year. That book detailed the spiritual and intellectual autobiographies of philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Basil Mitchell, Mortimer Adler, Richard Swinburne, Frederick Suppe, Linda Zagzebski, and Nicholas Rescher.

He has also published over fifty articles in books and peer reviewed journals.

Interfaith Work
Clark is an international advocate for interfaith cooperation, focusing on the Abrahamic religions. As of October 2016, he is project director for “Abrahamic Reflections on Science and Religion” a Templeton Foundation project which brings together 36 scholars from 14 countries to reconcile issues in the fields of science and religion. Scholars include Nidhal Guessoum, Rana Dajani, Nathan Aviezer, & Robert Koons, among others.

Clark has lectured around the world and has served as director for international conferences on science and religion, interfaith cooperation, & Chinese philosophy. He has worked extensively with the John Templeton Foundation, organizing many interfaith symposiums, notably “Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict” at Georgetown University on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. That conference inspired a book of the same name in which fifteen influential practitioners of the Abrahamic religions argued for religious liberty and tolerance from their own faith traditions. Contributors included former United States president Jimmy Carter, Indonesia’s first democratically elected president Abhurrahman Wahid, Rabbis for Human Rights co founder, Rabbi Arik Asherman, Rana Husseini, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff & theologian Miroslav Volf. The book earned praise from pioneers for peace such as Bishop Desmond Tutu.

Past conferences include “Science and Religion in China.” and "Values and Virtues in Contemporary China."

He also writes a regular column for the Huffington Post which confronts Islamophobia and antisemitism while also combating religious extremism.

Selected Books

 * Readings in the Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2017.
 * The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
 * Religion and the Sciences of Origins. Palgrave Macmillan; 2014.
 * Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an age of Religious Conflict. Yale University Press, 2012
 * Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga, Oxford University Press, 2012. Co-edited with Michael Rea.
 * Evidence and Religious Belief. Oxford University Press, 2011. Co-edited with Ray VanArragon.
 * Faith, Knowledge and Naturalism, Peking University Press, 2007. Co-edited with Xing Taotao.
 * Ethics, Religion and Society (Christian Academics, Fifth Volume). Co-edited with Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie. Shanghai Guji Press, 2007.
 * Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, co-edited with Chen Xia. Sichuan University Press, 2005.
 * 101 Key Philosophical Terms and Their Importance for Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. Co-authored with Jamie Smith and Richard Lints.
 * A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, co-edited with Mel Stewart and Zhou Zhianzang. Xiamen University Press, 2004.
 * The Story of Ethics: Human Nature & Human Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, 2003. Co-authored with Anne Poortenga.
 * Five Views on Apologetics. Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000. Co-authored with William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, John Frame and Paul Feinberg.
 * When Faith Is Not Enough. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997.
 * Philosophers Who Believe. InterVarsity Press,1993.
 * Return to Reason. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.
 * Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology. Kluwer academic publishers, 1992.

Selected Articles

 * “Trusting Intuition?” in Religion, Brain and Behavior, 2015.
 * “Cultural influences on the teleological stance: Evidence from China,” co-authored with Deborah Kelemen, Zhu Liqi, Wen Wang and Joshua Rottman, Religion, Brain and Behavior, 2015.
 * “Atheism, Inference and Intuition,” in Helen De Cruz and Ryan Nichols, eds. Experimental Philosophy, Open Court, 2015.
 * “The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion,” with Justin Winslett, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, (2011) 79(4): 928-960.
 * “Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science” with Dani Rabinowitz, European Journal of Philosophy of Religion, 2011, 3(1): 67-82. Reprinted in The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion, Ashgate, 2016
 * “Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion” with Justin Barrett, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, (2011) 79(3): 639-675.
 * “Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” with Justin Barrett. Faith and Philosophy, Volume 27, Number 2 – 2010, 174-189.
 * “Happiness and Human Flourishing,” in K. J. Clark, On Happiness. Beijing: The World Knowledge Press, 2010.
 * "How Real People Believe: Reason & Belief in God,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, Melville Stewart, ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
 * "Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, Melville Stewart, ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
 * "Explaining God Away: The Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, Melville Stewart, ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
 * “The Good of Diversity and the Virtue of Tolerance,” The Quarterly Journal of Philosophical Meditations (Iran), vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2009.
 * “Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty,” Rorty Pragmatism and Confucianism, Yong Huang, ed. State University Press of New York Press, 2009.
 * “A Tale of Two Deities,” American Theological Inquiry (Vol 1., Iss. 2, July 15, 2008), pp. 8-25.
 * “Pluralism and Proper Function,” in Alvin Plantinga: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
 * "Plantinga and Zhuangzhi on Natural Knowledge" in Faith, Knowledge and Naturalism. Kelly James Clark and Xing Taotao, editors. Peking University Press, 2007.
 * “The Good of Diversity and the Virtue of Tolerance,” in Ethics, Religion & Society. Co-edited by Kelly James Clark, Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie (Shanghai Guji Press, 2007).
 * “Story Shaped Lives,” in Faith, Philosophy and Film, Doug Geivet and James Spiegel, editors. IVP Academic, 2007.
 * “Three Kinds of Confucian Scholarship,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, December 2006, Vol. 33, 109-134.
 * “Confucian Hermeneutics,” Books and Culture, Sept.-Oct., 2006.
 * “The Gods of Abraham, Isaiah and Confucius,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. V, No. 1, Winter 2005, 109-136.
 * “Searching for My Self,” in Human Nature in  Chinese and Western Culture, Kelly James Clark and Chen Xia, editors. Sichuan University Press, 2005.
 * “A Confucian Defense of Gender Equity,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, June 2004, vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 395-422.
 * “The Polished Mirror: Reflections on Natural Knowledge of the Way in Zhuangzi and Plantinga” in China Philosophy: In an Era of Globalization, Robin Wang, editor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.
 * “Diversity and Dialogue,” A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, edited by Kelly James Clark, Mel Stewart and Zhou Zhiangsang. Xiamen University Press, 2004.
 * “Why Be Moral?” Markets and Morality, vol. 6, no. 1, 81-98.
 * “Fiction as a Kind of Philosophy,” in Realism/Anti-Realism, ed. William Alston (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002).
 * “In Defense of Our Selves,” co-authored with Kevin Corcoran, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol 4, no. 4, Winter 2001, 711-716.
 * “Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance,” co-author, Kevin Corcoran with responses by Edwin Black, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jay Mechling and James Arnt Aune in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 2000, 627-651.
 * “God is Great, God is Good: Medieval Conceptions of Divine Goodness and the Problem of Human Suffering,” Religious Studies, 37, 15-31.
 * “Narrative understanding of the self,” Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Philosophy and Religion, Peking University Press, 2001.
 * “Without Evidence or Argument,” Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Philosophy and Religion, Peking University Press, 2000.
 * “Religious diversity and religious tolerance,” Global Dialogue, 2000.
 * “Modal Logic and the Rebirth of Metaphysics,” Zhejiang Academic Journal, No. 2, 2000.
 * “Without Evidence or Argument” in Reader in Philosophy of Religion. Broadview Press, 2000. Reprinted in Reason and Responsibility 12th Ed., Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, editors. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.
 * “Plantinga vs. Oliphint: And the Winner Is...” Calvin Theological Journal, April 1998, vol. 33, no. 1, 160-169.
 * “Perils of Pluralism” Faith and Philosophy, Vol 14, No. 3, July 1997, 303-320.
 * “Knowing the Unknowable God”, Books and Culture, Vol. 3, no. 5, September-October 1997, 29-30.
 * “Trinity or Tritheism?” Religious Studies, 32, 463-476.
 * “Reformed Epistemology,” Modern Reformation Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, January/February, 1998, 23-26.
 * “I Believe in God the Father, Almighty,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, No. 1 Issue 137 (March 1995), 58-69.
 * “Doubt,” Dialogue, April, 1992.
 * “Spanish Common Sense Philosophy: Jaime Balmes’ Critique of Cartesian Foundationalism,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, April 1990, 207-226.
 * “The Explanatory Power of Theism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 25: 129-146 (1989).
 * “Evil and Christian Belief,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, No. 2 Issue No. 114 (June 1989), 175-189.
 * “Proofs of God’s Existence,” The Journal of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 1, January 1989, 59-84.
 * “The Religious and Philosophical Views of Sir William Herschel,” Astronomy Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 21, 1988, 27-43. Reprinted in the Bulletin of the William Herschel Society, 1990.