Phillip H. Wiebe is the former Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of Arts and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University

Trinity Western University

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 and its School of Graduate Studies. He is the author of God and Other Spirits and Visions of Jesus, both from Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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. His primary areas of research are in philosophy of religion and science, and epistemology.

Degrees

B.A., M.A.. (Manitoba) Ph.D. (Adelaide).

• Studied at Adelaide under notable scholar J. J. C. Smart, brother of Ninian
  Ninian Smart
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Areas of Expertise

Analytic philosophy; philosophy of religion, religious experience.

• Some have described Phillip Wiebe as a "Mystical Empiricist."
• Also a noted Shroud of Turin
  Shroud of Turin
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  expert.
• Book on intellectual vision pending.

Publications

• Theism in an Age of Science, Lanham, MD: American University Press, 1988.
• Visions of Jesus: direct encounters from the New Testament to today, New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.(Library Journal Review, summary)
• God and other spirits: intimations of transcendence in Christian experience, New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. (Table of contents, summary)