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  Paul Vitz

  Psychologist
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Paul Vitz
Psychologist
Paul Vitz, is an American psychologist who serves as Professor Emeritus of Psychology at New York University. His work focuses on the relationship between psychology and Christianity. He graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1957 and with a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1962. His first book, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship (2nd ed. 1994), critiqued humanistic psychology. At New York University he was promoted to full Professor and he retired from there in 2003 as Professor Emeritus. He is now Senior Scholar/Professor in the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Divine Mercy University.
 
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  James M. Houston

  CSLI Co-Founder
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James M. Houston
CSLI Co-FounderJames M. Houston (1922 – 2026) is a co-founder of the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jim served as a Senior Fellow of the Institute, lecturing at CSLI events over the past five decades. He received his Bachelor of Science and M.A. degrees from the University of Edinburgh and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He was a University Lecturer at Oxford from 1947 – 1971 where he taught cultural and historical geography. While teaching at Oxford, he met C.S. Lewis and participated in a regular Bible study with him for six years. He is known as one of the “founding fathers” of Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia where he has served as the first Principal, Chancellor and Professor of Spiritual Theology.  
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  Edmund Clowney

  Theologian
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Edmund Clowney
Theologian
Edmund Clowney (1917 – 2005) was a theologian, educator, and pastor. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1939, a Bachelor of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1942, a Master of Sacred Theology from Yale Divinity School in 1944, and a Doctor of Divinity from Wheaton College in 1966.
 
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  George Marsden

  Professor
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George Marsden
Professor
George Marsden, Professor of History Emeritus at University of Notre Dame, is an influential historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism. He is well known for his biography Jonathan Edwards: A Life. He has authored other books including The Soul of the American University, Religion and American Culture, and Fundamentalism and American Culture. His most recent book is C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”: A Biography. Marsden studied at Haverford College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Yale University; he has taught at Calvin University, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame, and is now scholar in residence at Calvin University.
 
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  Charles Malik

  Theologian
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Charles Malik
Theologian 
Charles Malik, (1906 – 1987) was a Lebanese academic, diplomat, philosopher, and theologian. He attended The American University of Beirut, graduating with a degree in mathematics and physics. He went on to study philosophy at Harvard (where he received his PhD) and in Freiburg, Germany. Malik is known for his role in the UN – as he signed the founding charter of the United Nations and one of the UN’s greatest documents, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He completed his academic career as the Jacques Maritain Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Two Tasks, focusing on the Church’s passion of both evangelism and intellectualism.