Philip Tallon

Philip Tallon (PhD, St Andrews) is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University, where he is an Instructor in the Honors College and Chair of Apologetics. He is the author of The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith (Seedbed, 2016) and The Poetics of Evil (Oxford, 2012). He has an essay on “The Theistic Argument from Beauty and Play” in Two Dozen or so Arguments for God (Oxford, forthcoming).

Articles, Culture, Reviews, Theology & Comedy16 June, 2017

Review: Redeeming Laughter

By Philip Tallon

Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99/$42.00 Fittingly, the title…

Beauty, Imaginative Natural Theology Symposium, Theology4 November, 2013

Cultivating Ears to Hear Beauty’s Call

By Philip Tallon

Attending St. Andrews, I found myself one of the few defenders of natural theology, surrounded by a chorus of (very polite) Barthian “Neins!” It…

Christianity and Star Trek, Pop Culture, Science Fiction, Theology6 September, 2012

Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Secular Postmillennialism

By Philip Tallon

Philip Tallon (PhD, Saint Andrews) is the author of The Poetics of Evil and the co-editor of The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes. He’s on Twitter sometimes @philiptallon. In high school I was…