Templeton Honors College Staff & Faculty

Dr. Christopher A. Hall
Provost of Eastern University
Dean of Templeton Honors College
(610) 341-5880
chall@eastern.edu

• Ph.D. (Theological and Religious Studies), Drew University (1991)
  M.Phil., Drew University (1989)
  Th.M. (Theology), Regent College (1987)
  MA (Biblical Studies), Fuller Theological Seminary (1977)
  BA (History) U.C.L.A. (1972)
• Author:
• • Does God have a Future?: A Debate on Divine Providence (with John Sanders, Baker Academic,  Feburary, 2003)
  • Learning Theology with the Fathers (InterVarsity Press, August, 2002)
  • The Trinity (with Roger Olson, Eerdmans, April 2002)
  • "Truth, Pluralism, and Religious Diplomacy: A Christian Dialogical Perspective," in Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International   Relations, edited by Robert A. Seiple and Dennis R. Hoover, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004

Dr. David Bradstreet
Professor and Observatory/Planetarium Director
(610) 341-5945
dbradstr@eastern.edu

• Ph.D. (Astronomy and Astrophysics) University of Pennsylvania (1983)
  M.S. (Astronomy and Astrophysics) University of Pennsylvania (1980)
  B.S. (Astronomy, Communications and Secondary Education)
  Eastern College and Villanova University (1976) cum laude
• Eastern University:
• • Dr. Bradstreet is involved with several organizations such as The American Astronomical Society, The International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry, The International Astronomical Union and Sigma Seta.

Dr. Phillip Cary
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(610) 341-5928
pcary@eastern.edu

• Dr. Cary teaches the year-long Western Civilization seminar taken by all first year students of the Templeton Honors College. The seminar focuses on intensive (rather than extensive) reading of writings that have formed the Western tradition, including those by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Descartes, Austen, Nietzsche and Flannery O'Connor. Dr. Cary is a philosopher and theologian known for his taped lecture series, Augustine: Philosopher and Saint, and Philosophy and Religion in the West, published by The Teaching Company. His book, Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self, has been published by Oxford University Press. He is currently working on another book about Augustine tentatively titled, Signs and Inwardness.

Dr. Raymond Van Leeuwen
Professor of Biblical Studies
(610) 341-1819
rvanleeu@eastern.edu

• B.A. Calvin College (1971)
  M.A. University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto (1975)
  B.D. Calvin Theological Seminary (1976)
  Ph.D. University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto (1984)
• Author:
• • Context and Meaning of Proverbs 25-27. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 96. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988
  • "The Book of Proverbs" in The New Interpreter's Bible Vol 5. Nashville: Abingdon Press 1997. Pages 17 - 264
  • "What Comes out of God's Mouth: Theological Wordplay in Deuteronomy 8," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985) 55-57