Biography
Jon is Executive Director of Cambridge House, a Christian Study Centre which serves the College of William and Mary, a university in Virginia. He studied philosophy and classics at the University of Alabama, earned an M.A. at Heythrop College, and was awarded a PhD in philosophy from King’s College London. Jon has held research fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His academic research and teaching focuses on philosophy of religion and early modern philosophy. His first book, The Metaphysics of Resurrection in 17th-Century Philosophy, was published in 2022. Jon has also spent many years helping faculty and students think about issues at the intersection of scholarship and faith – through conferences, academic fellowships, and writing groups. Jon is married to Meredith, and they have four young children. Although originally from Alabama, Jon and Meredith spent most of the last decade living in England. Jon is a supporter of the Crimson Tide and enjoys gardening, hiking, and the novels of the American South.
Selected Publications
‘Divine Idealism As Physicalism? Reflections On The Structural Definition Of Physicalism,’ Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 36, Iss. 3, (2019): 313-324, https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol36/iss3/2
“Intimations of Immortality’: A Response to Williams’, Religious Studies, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (2019): 245-260, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412518000537
‘Henry More’s Origenist Metaphysics of Resurrection’ in Henry More’s Origenism, ed. by Christian Hengstermann, Munster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020, pp. 169-185 https://www.aschendorff-buchverlag.de/detailview?no=13727
