The Council of Distinguished Fellows is constituted of internationally respected scholars, professors, clergy and artists.
Leaders in the world of academia and the arts, members of the Council stand in support of the College, provide advice on key issues in the founding process, and participate in the vibrant and rigorous community of learning that will define the College once it begins instruction.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D.
Laura Spelmen Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School; Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University
Kenneth G. Elzinga, Ph.D.
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Os Guinness, D.Phil.
Founder, Trinity Forum; Senior Fellow, East/West Institute
Thomas Howard, Ph.D.
Professor of English Emeritus, St. John’s Seminary, Archdiocese of Boston, MA
Walter M. Hooper, M.A.
Trustee of the Lewis Estate; former secretary to C.S. Lewis
David Lyle Jeffrey, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities, Baylor University; Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Ottowa; Honorary Professor of the University of Business and Economics, Beijing; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, Boston College and The King’s College, NY
George M. Marsden, Ph.D.
Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History, University of Notre Dame; Scholar in Residence, Calvin College
Wilfred M. McClay, Ph.D.
SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennesse at Chattanooga; Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Richard J. Mouw, Ph.D.
President and Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary
Armand M. Nicholi Jr., M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University
Robert Orr, M.D., C.M.
Professor of Medical Ethics, Loma Linda University; Professor of Bioethics, the Graduate College of Union University, Albany, NY; Professor of Bioethics, Trinity International University
Reverend Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS
Knight of the British Empire; Fellow of the Royal Society; former President, Queen’s College, Cambridge University; Founder, Society of Ordained Scientists
Robert Smyth
Producing Artistic Director, Lamb’s Players Theatre, San Diego
Edward G. Sparrow, LL.B.
Dean Emeritus, St. John’s College, Annapolis
Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
Robert J. Henle, S.J. Chair of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
Earl F. Palmer, D.D.
Pastor Emeritus, University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA
Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Senior Scholar, Institute for Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA; Professor Emeritus of Psychology, New York University
The Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia, D.Phil
Orthodox Metropolitan of Diokleia and Fellow Emeritus, Pembroke College, Oxford
Francis Warner, Ph.D.
Lord White Fellow Emeritus, St. Peter’s College, Oxford; Residendial Honorary Fellow for life, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Dallas Willard, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California; Senior Fellow, Trinity Forum