Members Back to 'Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion' Directors Professor David Cheetham Professor Yujin Nagasawa Members Dr Nikk Effingham Dr Janusz Salamon (President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion; Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion) Professor Heather Widdows Honorary members Dr Marius Felderhof Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah Professor David Thomas Dr Mark Walker William Paton Visiting Fellows Professor Chad Meister, Bethel College, USA (2015) Professor Dilipkumar Mohanta, University of Calcutta (2015) Dr Nick Trakakis, Australian Catholic University, Australia (2014) Dr Shalini Sinha, SOAS, University of London (2013) Dr Elena Kalmykova, University of Uppsala, Sweden (2013) Professor Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA (2013) Visiting scholars Professor John Bishop, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2012) Professor Zhicheng Wang, Zhejiang University, China (2011) Doctoral researchers Current Abbas Ahsan (Islamic analytic theology) Joshua Brown (The eutaxiological argument for the existence of God) Han Jen Chang (The evidential problem of evil and skeptical theism) Loxley Compton (Divine impassibility) Brent Constantine (the modal cosmological argument) Bobby Conway (The argument for the existence of God from guilt) Jamie Dew (A critical assessment of Christian materialism) Enis Doko (The multiverse and theism) John Edge (God's knowledge of the human condition) Randy Everist (Divine causation) Luke Fox (Kierkegaard and religious diversity) Michael Fox (Aesthetics and theology) Simo Frestadius (Theological epistemology) Sarah Geis (The Cartesian ontological argument) Gary Hall (Thomas Merton) Soufiane Hamri (Ontological and cosmological reasoning) Luke Henderson (Free will and heaven) Asha Lancaster-Thomas (The evil God hypothesis) Kristi Mair (Religious epistemology) Chase Montague (An apophatic approach to the problem of evil) Dre Rusavuk (Rationality, freedom and divine goodness) Stephen Torr (Evil and suffering) Kevin Vandergriff (The intrinsic probability of theism and naturalism) Khai Wager (Panpsychism and cosmopsychism) - AHRC funded Ben Whittington (Free will and nonreductive physicalism) Wai Yip Wong (Religious pluralism) Recent Alumni Nader Alsamaani (Ibn Arabi's model of ultimate reality) Toby Betenson (the problem of evil as a moral objection to theism) Xiaosheng Chen (Spinoza and Neo-Confucianism) Eric Eck (methodological naturalism) Leland Harper (deism and the multiverse)