Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
President & CEO, Global Center for Religious Studies (GCRR)
Founding Editor, Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM)
Co-Founder & Research Director, The FaithX Project
Darren Slade is a theological historian, systematician, and critical rationalist philosopher from Denver, Colorado. Specializing in historic-speculative theology, theoretical metaphysics, and the socio-political development of religious belief systems, Darren's academic publications include topics ranging from the philosophy of religion, ancient Near Eastern and Second-Temple hermeneutical practices, church and Islamic history, and the psychology of religion.
As an academician, Slade endorses unrestrained inquiry and the scholarly investigation of human knowledge. Academic freedom is paramount to the search for truth and a liberation from baseless ideologies.
As a theological historian, Slade utilizes social scientific models and methodologies to examine the historical development of religio-theological beliefs according to their socio-political, cultural, and philosophical contexts.
As a systematician, Slade assembles and compares the continuities, discontinuities, and distinctives of particular religious belief systems in order to synthesize the rationale for those beliefs into an integrated whole.
As a critical rationalist, Slade emphasizes the elimination of a confirmation bias through the use of logical argumentation, verificationism, and falsificationism. He maintains that a belief is ontologically true only if it is internally coherent, consistent with known facts, and possesses explanatory power or problem-solving capacity. While critical thinkers ought to rationally evaluate all religious belief systems, critical rationalists also recognize that conclusive corroboration of such systems is impossible.
Address: Global Center for Religious Research
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