Adrian College Philosophy/Religion Faculty
 

Dr. George Aichele
Professor, Philosophy/Religion
Ph.D., Northwestern University
gaichele@adrian.edu 517-264-3959
http://www.adrian.edu/~gaichele/
Specialist in biblical studies, philosophical theology, literary theory Special recognition: fellow, International Communicology Institute; invited lecturer, St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Wales; member, the Bible and Culture Collective invited lecturer at Monash University (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), Goethe University (Germany), College of the Holy Cross, Agnes Scott College, Siena Heights University Publications, exhibits, presentations: co-editor, Those Outside: Non-canonical Readings of Canonical Gospels, trinity Press International; author, The Phantom Messiah, T & T Clark; Author, The Control of Biblical Meaning: Canon as Semiotic Mechanism. Trinity Press International, 2001. Co-author, The Postmodern Bible. Yale University Press, 1995. Co-editor, Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film. Trinity Press International, 2002. and many others
 

Dr. Fritz Detwiler
Professor, Philosophy/Religion
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
fdetwiler@adrian.edu 517-264-3960
Specialist in American Religion, Native American Spiritual Traditions, Christian Right Special recognition: Past President, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters; meetings coordinator, Society for the Study of Native American Religious Tradiitons; SBC/Ameritech Teaching Learning Mentor, Faculty Development Technology Program; Teagle Foundation SALT Grant, Expert in Residence for Technology and Pedagogy Publications, exhibits, presentations: Book: Standing on the Premises of God: The Christian Right's Fight to Redefine America's Public Schools, (New York University Press, 2000); Papers and Presentations (selected): Faculty, IDEA Summer Fellows Program; "From 'Tourist' to 'Pilgrim': The Journey to Understanding in Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Study," Platte Valley Review,(Spring 1996); "All My Relations: Oglala Dakota Concept of Person"; Religion, Spring (1992); "From Playing Buddha Golf to Dances With Wu: Constructing Course Assessment in a Cross-Cultural Course, Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion Meeting, 2003. Other interests: Member, Ethics Committee, Bixby Memorial Hospital; Choral music, photography.
 

Dr. James Spence
Assistant Professor, Philosophy/Religion
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
jspence@adrian.edu 517-265-5161, x3854
Specialist in moral and political philosophy, applied ethics Publications, exhibits, presentations: "What Nietzsche Can Teach You" in "Philosophy, Film, and the Meaning of Life", Open Court Press  •   Review of Kilpi’s "The Ethics of Bankruptcy" in Philosophy In Review  •  Review of Kuczewski’s "Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics" in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics  •   Comments on "Quasi-Realism and Fundamental Moral Error", Louisiana State University, Second International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Ethics, Baton Rouge, LA 2/04  •   Comments on Virtue, "Epistemology, and Moral Luck", Louisiana State University, First International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Ethics, Baton Rouge, LA, 2/03  •   Session Chair, "Famine and International Ethics", International Society for Environmental Ethics Group Session, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, MN, 4/01  •  "The Moral Significance of Intention", University of Memphis, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, 3/99  •  "Bound By Law, Bound By Ethics: the role of the clinical ethicist" (w/ Heidi Forster, J.D.), Youngstown State University, Society for Health and Human Values Annual Spring Regional Meeting, Youngstown, OH, 4/98  •  "Good Intentions", Kent State University, Annual Meeting of the Ohio Philosophical Association, Kent, OH, 4/98  •   "Medical Futility as a Justification for Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment", Cleveland Clinic, Bioethics Grand Rounds, Cleveland, OH, 12/97  •  "Negative Rights and the Redistribution of Resources", Annual Meeting of the Indiana Philosophical Association, 4/96
 

Dr. Melissa Stewart
Assistant Professor, Philosophy/Religion
M.A., Southwest Baptist Theological Seminar; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
mstewart@adrian.edu 517-264-3961
Special recognition: Phenomenal Woman Award, Adrian College, March 18, 2004; Vanderbilt Dissertation Enhancement Grant, presented at the Uppsala Seminar; studied with Wemer Jeanrond at the University of Lund, Sweden, Summer 2002; Phi Beta Kappa Publications, exhibits, presentations: forthcoming  •  "Social Gospel," Encyclopedia of Evangelical Christianity, Brookshire Publishing, forthcoming  •   "Sierva Maria de Todes de los Angeles: Violence, Hybridity and Place in the Construction of Postcolonial Christian Identity," SECSOR: American Academy of Religion (AAR), regional meeting, Philosophy of Religion Section, Atlanta, GA, March 2004, co-presented with Emily R. Askew  •  "The Unintended Consequences of Dixieland Postliberalism," AAR Annual Meeting, Social Ethics Section, Atlanta, GA, November 2003, copresented with Robert P. Jones  •   "A Feminist Appraisal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and David Tracy on Syncretism & Suffering," SECSOR: AAR, regional meeting, Women and Religion Section, Chattanooga, TN; March 2003  •   "Intra-Catholic Pluralism: Resources to Resist a Universalizing, Characterless Globalization," AAR Annual Meeting, Roman Catholic Studies Group, Toronto, November 2002  •   "True Heirs of Postmodemism, Postliberals or Revisionists?" Uppsala Theology Seminar, University of Lund, Sweden, May 15-17, 2002  •   "Toward a Method of Ecumenical Pluralism: George Lindbeck and David Tracy," SECSOR: AAR, regional meeting, Theology and Philosophy Section, Atlanta, GA, March 2002
 

Dr. Christopher Momany
Lecturer, Philosophy/Religion
Chaplain and Director of Church Relations
D.Min., Drew University
cmomany@adrian.edu 517-265-5161, x4211
Chaplaincy & Church Relations
Specialist in Christian social teachings; John Wesley, Methodism, Asa Mahan, 19th Century Social Reform, Holiness theology Publications, exhibits, presentations: Writer, Daily Bible Study Magazine,The United Methodist Publishing House  •   Author: "The Fellowship of the Spirit / Intersubjectivity by Participation," The Asbury Theological Journal, Fall 2005   •   "Aliens in a Foreign Land:Memory as Kenosis in a Culture of Achievement," Wesleyan Theological Journal, Spring 2002   •    "The Image of God and the 'Social Principle': The Trinitarian Theology of Asa Mahan," Wesleyan Theological Journal, Fall 2001   •   "Wesley's General Rules: Paradigm for Postmodern Ethics," Wesleyan Theological Journal, Spring-Fall 1993  •   Presentations: "Vocation as Theonomy," Presented to the Wesleyan Center for 21st Century Studies, February 2006   •   "The Concept of Person and the Consistent Ethic of Life: A Wesleyan Perspective," Presented to the First Formal Conference of The Wesleyan Center for 21st CenturyStudies   •