Douglas Groothuis

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Douglas R. Groothuis (born 1957) is currently Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary.

Groothuis was a campus pastor for twelve years prior to obtaining a position as an associate professor of philosophy of religion and ethics at Denver Seminary in 1993. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Oregon.He is married to Rebecca Merrill Groothuis.

During the mid-1980s Groothuis emerged as a younger voice in Christian evangelicalism with two books that described and analyzed New Age spirituality: Unmasking the New Age and Confronting the New Age. These texts catapulted him to some prominence in the Christian countercult movement as an authority on New Age. In subsequent books he pursued specific topics in New Age spirituality such as claims that Jesus spent his adolescent years studying among Hindu and Buddhist teachers in India and Tibet in Revealing the New Age Jesus. The phenomena of near-death experiences and the claims of Betty Eadie about the afterlife were the subject of his analysis in Deceived by the Light.

In the 1990s Groothuis also began to write about the cultural shifts associated with postmodern philosophy in his book Truth Decay and Christian apologetics responses to those shifts. He was also interested in human behavior and belief associated with the use of the Internet, and wrote of his theological concerns in The Soul in Cyberspace. His interests in philosophy have also led him to write essays on Immanuel Kant's epistemology, the rationality of theism, and books about Pascal and Jesus as a teacher of philosophy.

In his teaching career at Denver Seminary, he has taught graduate courses in Christian Apologetics, Problems in Apologetics, Issues in Philosophy of Religion, Christian Ethics and Modern Culture, Religious Pluralism, among many others. He is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, and the Evangelical Theological Society, and has published ten books and contributed to many others, and has written numerous articles, book reviews, and editorials. Articles have appeared in periodicals such as Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Philosophia Christi.

Professor Groothuis' areas of specialization include:

  • Ethics and Contemporary Culture
  • History of Modern Philosophy
  • Pascal
  • Philosophy of Religion

He is also knowledgeable in the areas of the philosophy of technology, epistemology, contemporary religious movements, and world religions. He is a staunch adherent of Biblical Christianity.

His website has articles under the following subjects:

  • Apologetics
  • Articles on Other Websites
  • Bibliographies and Outlines
  • Book Reviews
  • Ethics
  • Interviews
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry & Music
  • Social Commentary

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  • Christianity That Counts (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994). ISBN 0801038685
  • Confronting the New Age (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1988). ISBN 0830812237
  • Deceived by the Light (Eugene: Harvest House, 1995). ISBN 1565073010
  • On Jesus (South Melbourne and Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003). ISBN 0534583946
  • On Pascal (South Melbourne and Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003). ISBN 0534583911
  • Revealing the New Age Jesus (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990). ISBN 0830812989
  • The Soul in Cyberspace (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997). ISBN 0801057604
  • Truth Decay (Downers Grive: InterVarsity Press, 2000). ISBN 0830822283
  • Unmasking the New Age (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1986). ISBN 0877845689
  • In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment, co-edited with James F. Sennett (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005). ISBN 0830827676