Scott Moore, Ph.D.

UNSC Assistant Director
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Great Texts
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Great Texts
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UNSC Associate Director
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Great Texts
Education
- Ph.D., Baylor University
- M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- B.A., Baylor University
Specialties
- Philosophy and Literature
- Hermeneutics
- Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests
Iris Murdoch, Wendell Berry, Agrarianism, Religion and Politics
Selected Publications
Books
- How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers (Baylor University Press, 2019)
- The Limits of Liberal Democracy: Religion and Politics at the End of Modernity. (IVP Academic, 2009.)
- (co-edited with Robert C. Roberts and Donald Schmeltekopf) Finding a Common Thread: Reading Great Texts from Homer to O’Connor. (St. Augustine Press, 2013)
Selected Articles
- “Rethinking Food, Fortune, and Misfortune: Reading Wendell Berry in a Time of Pandemic,” Review and Expositor (2020)
- “The Mad Farmer’s Gay Liberation Front? Wendell Berry on Same-Sex Marriage,” Local Culture: Journal of the Front Porch Republic (2019).
- “The Consolations of Fiction: J.R.R. Tolkien and Iris Murdoch.” In Tolkien, Our Contemporary, edited by Ralph Wood. University of Notre Dame Press, 2015
- “Murdoch’s Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show.” In Iris Murdoch: Morality and the Novel, edited by Anne Rowe. London: Palgrave, 2010.
- “Humanities in an Ecclesially-based University: Return to Reading Greats.” In Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael Budde and John Wright. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2004.
- “Hospitality as an Alternative to Tolerance,” Communio XXVII:3 (Fall 2000)
- "Christian History, Providence, and Michel Foucault," Fides et Historia 29:1 (1997).