Faculty and Staff
Kent E. Richter Associate
Professor, Philosophy/Religious Studies
Tel.: (630) 942-3404
Fax: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3053a
e-mail: richterk@cod.edu
Areas of Research Interest:
• Comparative Religions and World Religion
• Philosophy of Religion
• History of Western Philosophy
• Christian Theology
Recent Courses Taught:
• Philosophy 1100—Introduction to Philosophy
• Philosophy 1110—Ethics
• Philosophy/Religion 1150—World Religions
• Philosophy 1145—Philosophy of Religions
• Religion 1100—Introduction to Religion
• Religion 1120—New Testament
• Religion 1155—Asian Thought
Current Projects:
Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
• Text for Introduction to Religion: Understanding Religion in a Global Society
• Presented paper on “The Unsatisfactoriness of Answers to the Problem of Evil”
• Presented paper on “Trinitarian Theology as a Model for Evaluating World Religions”
Education:
Ph.D. Stanford University
M.A. Colorado State University B.S. Colorado State University
Awards and Recognitions:
• 4-year Graduate Scholarship, Stanford University
• German Academic Exchange Scholarship (University of Düsselforf)
• NEH Summer Seminar, "What is Enlightenment."