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James “JT” Turner Jr.
College of Christian Studies
College of Christian Studies
Associate Professor of Philosophy
jturner@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 231-5545
Honors Commons
Academic Background
Dr. J. T. Turner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Anderson University (SC) and its Clamp Divinity School. Beyond his love for theology and philosophy, he’s an avid college football fan, ice hockey fan, golf fan, and table-top war-gamer. He also has a deep love for metal music. He is happily married to Bethany Turner with whom he has a son named James and a dog named Professor Theophilus (“Theo”).
BS in Communications, Liberty University
MA in Religious Studies, Liberty University Th.M in Historical Theology, Erskine College and Seminary
Ph.D in Theology, The University of Edinburgh
Fast Facts
I teach philosophy at AU because I think there’s a deep connection between the Christian life, Christian education, and philosophical reasoning. Of all the places that should teach philosophy and require it of its students, it’s at a Christian university. I teach here because, in part, AU values that insight and actively seeks that it’s accomplished.
Studying philosophy isn’t about getting a job; it’s about becoming a better human being. Of course, better humans make better and more attractive (to employers) employees, too.
The students, my fellow faculty, and that my wife works here.
Analytic Theology, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics–particularly the metaphysics of human beings and the Christian doctrine of the bodily resurrection.
Books: Arcadi, James M. and James T. Turner, Jr., eds. T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology. London, UK: T&T Clark, 2021. Turner, Jr., James T. On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought. London, UK: Routledge, 2019. Journal Articles and Chapters: Turner, Jr. James T. “A Hylemorphist View: Neither Creationism nor Traducianism.” In The Origin of the Soul: A Conversation, edited by Joanna Leidenhag and Joshua R. Farris. London: Routledge, 2023. Turner, Jr., James T. “The End of Things: Resurrection and New Creation.” In T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology, edited by James M. Arcadi and James. T. Turner, Jr., 423 – 436. London, UK: T&T Clark, 2021. Turner, J. T. “Anti-Essentialism and Conciliar Christology.” Criswell Theological Review 19, no. 1 (2021): 133-145. Turner, Jr., James T. “The Body in Jesus’ Tomb as a Hylemorphic Puzzle: A Response to Jaeger and Sienkiewicz.” Perichoresis 19, no. 2 (2021): 83-97. Turner, Jr., James T. “Hylemorphism, Rigid Designators, and the Disembodied “Jesus”: A Call for Clarification.” Religious Studies 57, no. 2 (June 2021): 193 – 208. Turner, Jr., James T. “Identity, Incarnation, and the Imago Dei.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88, no. 1 (2020): 115 – 131. Turner, Jr., James T. “Perfect Love, Perfect Obedience, and the (So-Called) Problem of Heavenly Freedom.” In Love, Human and Divine: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology, edited by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi, and Jordan Wessling, 239 – 257. London, UK: T&T Clark, 2020. Turner, Jr. James T. “Temple Theology, Holistic Eschatology, and the Imago Dei: An Analytic Prolegomenon in Response to N. T. Wright.” Canadian-American Theological Review 8, no. 1 (2019): 16 – 34. Turner, Jr., James T. “The Mind of the Spirit in the Resurrected Human: A Mereological Model of Mental Saturation.” Philosophia Christi 21, no. 1 (2019): 167 – 186. Turner, Jr., James T. “Temple Theology, Holistic Eschatology, and the Imago Dei: An Analytic Prolegomenon.” TheoLogica 2, no. 1 (2018): 95 – 114. Turner, Jr., James T. “How to Lose The Intermediate State without Losing Your Soul.” In Christian Physicalism?: A Theological Critique, edited by R. Keith Loftin and Joshua R. Farris, 271 – 293. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. Turner, Jr., James T. “On Two Reasons Christian Theologians Should Reject The Intermediate State.” Journal of Reformed Theology 11, no. 1-2 (2017): 121 – 139. Turner, Jr., James T. “Purgatory Puzzles: Moral Perfection and the Parousia.” Journal of Analytic Theology (5) (May 2017): 197 – 219. Mugg, Joshua and James T. Turner, Jr. “Why a Bodily Resurrection?: The Bodily Resurrection and the Mind/Body Relation.” Journal of Analytic Theology (5) (May 2017): 121 – 144. Turner, Jr., James T. “On the Horns of a Dilemma: Bodily Resurrection or Disembodied Paradise?” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 no. 5 (2014): 406 – 421. Turner, Jr., James T. “No Explanation of Persons, No Explanation of Resurrection: On Lynne Baker’s Constitution View and the Resurrection of Human Persons.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 no. 3 (2014): 297 – 317.
