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Jon Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Jon Thompson, Ph.D.

Bio

Jon holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from King’s College London. His research is focused on the history of philosophy (especially Early Modern), philosophy of religion, and systematic theology. Jon previously served as the Executive Director at Cambridge House Christian Study Center. Before that, he held research fellowships at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the University of Cambridge (The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion). Jon is from Alabama, and he garnered a lifelong love for philosophy while majoring in Philosophy and Classical Studies at the University of Alabama.

Apart from philosophy, Jon has an abiding interest in the fiction of the American South and the films of Terrence Malick. He and his wife spent nearly ten years in England, but they now delight in spending time camping, gardening, and hiking in coastal Virginia with their four young children.

Publications

  • The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.
  • ‘The Resurrection of the Flesh: the "Peculiar Treasure" of the Church’, Modern Theology, (October 2024), https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12929.
  • ‘Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke’, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 95, Iss. 2 (April 2021): 165-94.
  • ‘The Naturalization of Scriptural Reason in 17th Century Epistemology’, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Vol. 56, Iss. 1 (February 2021): 188-208 [open access]
  • ‘Intimations of Immortality’: A Response to Bernard Williams’, Religious Studies, Vol. 25, Iss. 2 (June 2019): 245-60.
  • ‘Divine Idealism As Physicalism? Reflections On The Structural Definition Of Physicalism’, Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 36: Iss. 3, Article 2 (2019): 313-24.

Affiliations

  • Evangelical Philosophical Society
  • American Academy of Religion
  • Member: Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism

Research Interests

  • History of Philosophy (especially Early Modern)
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Platonism and Neoplatonism
  • Science and Religion
  • Systematic Theology, especially immortality and resurrection

Awards

  • Carl F.H. Henry Residential Fellowship, Trinity International University: 2021-22
  • Principal Investigator: 'Re-embodying the Soul: The possibility of resurrection', Templeton Religion Trust
  • Runner-up: Iredell Jenkins Philosophical Essay Competition, University of Alabama: 2011