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Publications – Dr. Doug Blount

Publications

Books

  • Apologetics and the Death of Modernity, in process.
  • With Joseph D. Wooddell, eds. The Baptist Faith and Message 2000: Critical Issues in America’s Largest Protestant Denomination. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Articles

  • “JDFM Forum: Interview with Douglas K. Blount,” Journal of Discipleship and Family Ministry 6 (2017), 103-109.
  • “On this Side of the Jordan: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake,” Journal of Discipleship and Family Ministry 6 (2017), 17-27.
  • “Divine Timelessness Defined and Defended,” Augustine Collegiate Review 1 (2017), 23-37.
  • “Idealism and Science” in Idealism and Christian Philosophy, ed. James S. Spiegel and Steven B. Cowan (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), 153-63.
  • “Good (and Beautiful) News for Postmodern Apologists,” Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies 2 (2015), 5-15.
  • With J. Lanier Burns, J. Scott Horrell, and Glenn R. Kreider, contributing writers. Exploring Christian Theology, Volume 3: The Church, Spiritual Growth, and the End Times, ed. Nathan D. Holsteen and Michael J. Svigel. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House, 2014.
  • With Nathan D. Holsteen, Glenn R. Kreider, and Michael J. Svigel. “Part One: ‘How Firm a Foundation: Revelation, Scripture, and Truth,’ ” in Exploring Christian Theology, Volume 1: Revelation Scripture, and the Triune God, ed. Nathan D. Holsteen and Michael J. Svigel. Bloomington, Minnesota: Bethany House, 2014, 23-123.
  • With Benjamin H. Arbour. “The Camel’s Nose: Open Theism and Biblical Interpretation,” Bibliotheca Sacra 171 (2014), 274-88.
  • “What Does It Mean to Say that the Bible Is True?” in In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture, ed. Steven B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2013), 47-62.
  • “Receiving Evil from God” in Why, O God? Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church, ed. Larry J. Waters and Roy B. Zuck (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011), 217-29.
  • “Foreword” in Joseph D. Wooddell, The Beauty of the Faith: Using Aesthetics for Christian Apologetics (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2010), vii-viii.
  • “A New Kind of Interpretation: Brian McLaren and the Hermeneutics of Taste” in Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement, ed. William D. Henard and Adam W. Greenway (Nashville: B&H, 2009), 109-28.
  • “Rattle and Film: U2, Nietzsche and Salvation in the Blues” in Faith, Film, and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, ed. Douglas Geivett and James Spiegel (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2007), 239-55.
  • “The Trinity: Is it possible that God be both One and Three?” in The Apologetics Study Bible, ed. Ted Cabal et al. (Nashville: Holman Bible, 2007), 1459-60.
  • “Article II: God” in The Baptist Faith and Message 2000: Critical Issues in America’s Largest Protestant Denomination, ed. Douglas K. Blount and Joseph D. Wooddell (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 13-24.
  • “Togas, Tulips and the Philosophy of Openness,” Southwestern Journal of Theology 47 (2005), 177-89.
  • “Providence” in Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 2d revised edition, ed. Chad Brand, Charles Draper, and Archie England (Nashville: Holman Bible, 2003), 1340-42.
  • “Wealth and Materialism” in Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 2d revised edition, ed. Chad Brand, Charles Draper, and Archie England (Nashville: Holman Bible, 2003), 1661-62.
  • “Überhobbits: Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the Will to Power” in The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All, ed. Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson (Chicago: Open Court, 2003), 87-98.
  • “For the Bible Tells Me So: The Rationality of Inerrancy,” Areopagus Journal 2 (2002), 21-28.
  • “On the Incarnation of a Timeless God” in God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, ed. Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 236-48.
  • “A Mere Christian, and a Baptist Too” in Why I Am A Baptist, ed. Tom J. Nettles and Russell D. Moore (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2001), 173-79.
  • “Apologetics and the Ordinances of the Church,” Southwestern Journal of Theology 43 (2001), 68-83.
  • “Swinburne and the Doctrine of Divine Timelessness,” Philosophia Christi, 2d ser., 2 (2000), 35-52.
  • “The Authority of Scripture” in Reason for the Hope Within, ed. Michael J. Murray (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 399-422.
  • “Euthanasia, Capital Punishment and Mistakes-Are-Fatal Arguments,” Public Affairs Quarterly 10 (1996), 279-90.

Editing

  • Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Bibliotheca Sacra, 2013-2015.
  • Managing Editor, Southwestern Journal of Theology, 2003-2007.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Philosophia Christi, 1998-2003.
  • Issue Editor, Southwestern Journal of Theology, 43:2 (2001).

Reviews

  • Review of J. P. Moreland, Christianity and the Nature of Science (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1989), Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45 (2002), 742-43.
  • Review of Gregory A. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2001), Religious Studies Review 28 (2002), 347.
  • Review of Stephen T. Davis, ed., Philosophy and Theological Discourse (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), Philosophia Christi, 2d ser., 3 (2001), 557-59.
  • Review of Craig Van Gelder, ed., Confident Witness—Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999), Southwestern Journal of Theology 42 (2000), 115-16.
  • Review of Philip Sampson, et al., eds., Faith and Modernity (Irvine, California: Regnum Books International, 1994), Southwestern Journal of Theology 42 (2000), 116.
  • Review of Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998), Southwestern Journal of Theology 42 (1999), 93-94.
  • Review of Kelly James Clark, ed., Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1993), Criswell Theological Review 7 (1993), 134-36.
  • Review of Thomas V. Morris, Our Idea of God: An Introduction to Philosophical Theology (Notre Dame, Indiana:
  • University of Notre Dame Press, 1991; Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1991), Criswell Theological Review 6 (1992), 157-58.