Dr Brendan Sweetman
Professor of Philosophy and Sullivan Chair in Philosophy
Rockhurst University, in Kansas City, Missouri
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Biography
Dr Brendan Sweetman is a teacher, philosopher and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair in Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, including The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010), The Vision of Gabriel Marcel (Brill, 2008), Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford U.P., 1992), A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011), Evolution, Chance, and God (Bloomsbury, Fall 2015), and most recently, Is Theistic Evolution Viable? A Reflection on Evolution and Christian Theism (Cascade Books, 2026). He has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophical Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Encyclopedia Britannica, New Catholic Encyclopedia, and the American National Biography. He has also published a number of articles in more popular media, such as The Kansas City Star, The Topeka Capital Journal, PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and given numerous radio and newspaper interviews on topics such as religion and politics, just war tradition, religion and science, and ethics in business. Dr Sweetman is an elected Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. A founding member of the Kansas City Religion and Science Dialogue Project, Dr Sweetman has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures in many countries. Dr Sweetman is the current President of the Gabriel Marcel Society, a member of the former “Think Tank” on Religious Leadership, Civil Discourse and Democracy Project, at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, and the editor of Marcel Studies. His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Catholicism, Ethics, History of Religion, History of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Cosmology, Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins, Neuroscience
Website
https://rockhurst.academia.edu/BrendanSweetman
Publications
Evolution, Chance, and God
Bloomsbury 2015
Religion and Science: An Introduction
Continuum 2010
Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Continuum 2007
(Ed.) Philosophical Thinking and the Religious Context
Bloomsbury 2013
Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square
InterVarsity Press 2006
The Vision of Gabriel Marcel
Brill 2008
Dictionary of Christianity and Science
Zondervan 2017
Co-authors: Paul Copan et al
The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism: The Loss of Confidence in Reason and the Clash of Worldviews
Palgrave MacMillan 2021
Is Theistic Evolution Viable? A Reflection on Evolution and Christian Theism
Cascade Books 2026
