John Mark Reynolds is the founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, at Biola University. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester.
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Dr. Reynolds has written and collaborated on a number of books, including Three Views on the Creation and Evolution Debate, co-edited with J.P. Moreland, Against All Gods: What's Right and Wrong About the New Atheism, with Phillip E. Johnson, and Towards a Unified Plationic Human Psychology, a close examination of Plato’s presentation of the soul in the Timaeus. Recently he published When Athens Met Jerusalem: An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought, which argues for a reconciliation of classical reason and Christian faith, and edited The Great Books Reader, a book of excerpts and essays on the most influential books in western civilization. Many of his technical articles have been published on philosophy of religion as well as popular articles in journals such as The New Oxford Review and Touchstone.
Dr. Reynolds lectures frequently on ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, home-schooling and cultural trends. He regularly appears on radio talk shows, including the Hugh Hewitt Show, and actively blogs on cultural issues. For speaking requests email Nicole Boyle.
John Mark and his wife Hope have four homeschooled children: L.D., Mary Kate, Ian and Jane. John Mark and his family love Disneyland and make frequent trips to the "Happiest Place on Earth" with his students at the Torrey Honors Institute of which John Mark is the founder and director.
I am reminded by the folk at America's best magazine, Touchstone, that C.S. Lewis published a famous "top ten list" of the books which most influenced his life. I am not listing the best books or the books that impact me now, but the books that have influenced the course of my life. To make the top ten list (or the close 20) is to have read the book more than five times, carefully, and not for work. The top ten list must have influenced my life for more than five of my forty years. Books in the top ten list should still be meaningful, thus giving some slight preference to the grown up me.
I don't remember a time when the stories of this book were not being read to me and I read it every day. My parents raised me in an atmosphere super-saturated with this Book of Books.
Torrey is based on the image of Saint Anne's in this book. This is the truest account of the state of the West written in the last one hundred years.
I have read this book every year of my life since seventh grade. Even the smallest hobbit can do great things for God.
The two years spent with this book and Al Geier were the most academically productive of my life. Since then, I have come to find almost every truth needed in the pages of this book, saving only the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This book seized my imagination and shaped my view of politics forever.
My favorite book on love, marriage, and the problem of pain.
I still hope the elevator in Sutherland will open to Narnia someday.
The most influential book of the last four years of my life.
This is the first and last word on science for me.
The book that still shapes the educational experience at Torrey.