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CURRICULUM VITAE
Reginald F. McLelland, Ph.D.
210 Rainbow Drive
Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
Home Phone: (706) 820-1403
Work: (706) 820-1560, ext. 1625
Fax: (706) 820-216
College E-Mail: McLelland@Covenant.edu
Home E-Mail: Phiprof@Home.com
EDUCATION:
M.Div., Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS. 1981
Ph.D., Philosophy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 1972
M.A., English, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 1965
B.A., English, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. 1962
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Instructor in English, Augusta College, Augusta, GA, 1965-1968
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1969-1972
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, 1972-1974
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC, 1974-1978
Guest Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Apologetics, and Christian Ethics. Served on both the M.Div. and Th.M. Faculty. Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS, 1978-1987
Professor of Philosophy, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, 1987 to present.
I have also taught courses in the D. Min. programs at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS., and Knox Theological Seminary, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and M.Div. courses at Sangre de Christo Seminary, Westview, Colorado.
Before doing graduate work I taught English and history at Piedmont Jr. High School in Charlotte, NC, 1962-1964. SCHOLARLY WORK AND PUBLICATIONS:
"The Relationship of the Two Conceptions of Categories in Everett Hall's Philosophy," Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal of American Philosophy, pp. 37-57, Winter 1975; Vol. XI, No. 1.
"Philosophy and the Prophet: Some Thoughts on a Christian Philosophical Method," Where Is the Salt?: Essays and Studies in Honor of John W. Sanderson, Jr. Covenant College, 1997. Pp. 1-11.
Popular Writings:
"Having a Christian World-View," Eternity, October, 1987. 41.
Book Review, "The Best Things in Life Are Free," by Peter Kreeft in Presbyterian Journal, pp. 12-13. April 24, 1985
"Married But Unequally Yoked," Table Talk, pp.8-11ff.
Various Devotional Writings in Religious magazines.
Papers Presented:
The Relationship Between Philosophy and Science, Symposium on Religion and Philosophy, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Winter of 1978.
Tenure Paper, Faculty Forum, What Is Christian Philosophy?, Fall of 1988, Covenant College.
The State's Obligation to Govern from a Christian Perspective: A Look at Five Arguments., Faculty Forum, Covenant College.
Cultural Calvinism, Hermeneutics, and Their Relevance to the Integration of Faith and Life at Covenant College, Faculty Forum and the Board of Trustees, Covenant College, Fall, 1991.
An Essay of Metaphysics: A Christian Perspective, Faculty Forum.
Confused Christianity: The Problem of Engagement in a Pluralistic Culture, Summer Conference, 1993, Covenant College.
On Politically Correct Language, Address to the PCA General Assembly, June 8, 1993.
Knowledge and the Unbeliever: Some Considerations for the Resolution of the Apparent Conflict Between Antithesis and Common Grace, Faculty Forum, Fall of 1997.
During my Sabbatical, the Fall of 1996, I completed some 150 plus pages of manuscript of a book on Christian philosophy. My goal is to complete this book the summer of 1999.
OTHER ENGAGEMENTS:
Ligonier Theology Conference Seminar Speaker, Winter, 1991, Orlando, FL.
Reformed University Fellowship, co-Speaker. Regional Meeting in Atlanta. What Is a Christian World and Life View?
Reformed University Fellowship Seminar Speaker; A Christian View of Art.
I have attended conferences related to my discipline at Geneva College (Political Philosophy), Calvin College (Philosophy and History), and Wheaton College during the last ten years.
DENOMINATIONAL WORK:
Over the years, I have represented Covenant College at the PCA General Assembly, preached in numerous churches, given presentations and workshops on Christian World and Life View thinking, taught extensively in my local church, Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church.
COLLEGE RESPONSIBILITIES:
I am Chair of my department, and have served on the Faculty Status Committee, the Academic Standards Committee, the Maclellan Scholars Committee, as Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, Chair of Faculty Forum, Chair of Ad Hoc Committee to write the Affirmation Statement requested by the Board of Trustees. I served on the formation committee for the Faculty Assembly and presently I am on its Steering Committee.
COLLEGE TRIPS:
Summer, 1990:
During the summer of 1990, Frank Brock, the President of Covenant College and I took 13 college students to France, Niger, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria for 18 days with the majority of our time spent in Africa. On this trip we were presented with a good number of cultural perspectives. In Niger, we camped out in the desert right at the border of Mali near a remote village. In Ivory Coast we met refugees from Liberia. And in Nigeria we visited several missionary efforts around Jos.
Summer of 1997:
Again, President Brock and myself took 14 students (my wife accompanied us on this trip) to southern France (Aix En Provence), Spain, and Morocco, with the majority of our time spent in Morocco. In Morocco we visited Meknes, Fez, Marrakesh, and Casablanca. My wife and I primarily supervised the students in Morocco by ourselves which was a new experience for us.
August, 2000:
My wife and I spent the month of August, 2000 in Hungary and northern Romania where both of us gave lectures and seminars at what was termed a "Christian Intellectual Camp." I gave a main lecture on "Post-Modernism and the Authority of Scripture," and three seminars based on this lecture. Other than the American missionary who was our driver and translator, we were with Hungarians the entire time. In Cluj, Romania, we stayed for a week with a Hungarian family. The husband was a professor of dramatic writing at the University of Cluj and his wife was involved in starting a Christian school. We visited a number of Christian ministries in the time we were in Romania, even spending one night in a small village back up in the hills in somewhat primitive conditions.
March, 2001:
During Covenant's Spring Break in March, 2001, I gave a series of lectures to various groups in Slovakia and Hungary during an eight day period. I gave lectures on "God and Knowledge," "Christ and Culture," "Temperament, Psycho-pathology and the Nature of Cognition," "Language and Power," a Look at Nietzsche's and Foucault's Views of Language and Their Implications," and "A Moral Critique of Capitalism." I spoke to a seminary faculty and students, to a university philosophy department and students, in a university philosophy of religion class, to a Christian "think tank" group, to a group of people who gather in a prominent bookstore in Bratislava (a real treat for me), to groups of Christians and non-Christians in Budapest who were interested in Christianity as a philosophical system of thought and its place in culture. In my eight days in Slovakia, I spoke to some 300 people. I was asked some extremely difficult and challenging questions but loved every minute of it. I returned from this trip intellectually and spiritual encouraged. I have been offered the possibility of returning to Bratislava, Slovakia as a "Scholar in Residence" for a term.
Wheaton Philosophy Conference:
For the past three years, my colleague in the Philosophy Department and I have taken a large of group of students (this past year some 50 students in a chartered bus) to the annual Wheaton College Philosophy Conference. Here they have gotten to meet the philosophers they have been reading and reading about. They get to interact with students from a different theological environment and here professional, in-depth papers read. We also spend hours en route and back talking philosophy and about ideas. This annual trip, while extremely tiring, strongly benefits the Philosophy Department's program, the intellectual tone of Covenant College, and of course, the students and two professors.