Early History
The Society for Philosophy of Religion was founded in 1938. Before 1944 the past of the Society is murky, especially because of the Second World War. During these times a small group of scholars meet at various places – usually one of the several houses of Bob Patterson, though there was at least one meeting on a cruise liner – to sip the finest of liquors and to smoke the best of Cuban cigars while talking about God, no-God, which God, and the like. From 1944 onward, the society was more formally organized with a president and officers.
Recent History
The Society now meets annually in a variety of American cities. It also sponsors the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, which is published by Springer and overseen by a group of Society members.
Past Presidents
2014 Bernie Cantens 2013 John Schellenberg 2012 Terrence Tilley
2011 John Whittaker
2010 Ron Hall
2009 Paul Draper
2008 Houston Craighead
2007 Jeff Jordan
2006 William Hasker
2005 William Wainwright
2004 Dewi Phillips
2003 James Harris
2002 William Alston
2001 William Rowe
2000 Patricia Johnson
1999 Frank Dilley
1998 James Keller
1997 Jane Mary Trau
1996 Louis Pojman
1995 Will Power
1994 David Schrader
1993 Lad Sessions
1992 Jackson Ice
1991 Billy Joe Lucas
1990 Jamie Ferreira
1989 Dallas High
1988 George Mavrodes
1987 John Elrod
1986 Frederick Ferre
1985 Frank Harrison
1984 Bob Perkins
1983 Charles Lewis
1982 Rem Edwards
1981 Gene Long
1980 Bill Cobb
1979 Jude Dougherty
1978 Forrest Wood
1977 Mary Rose
1976 Elliott McElroy
1975 Tom Hearn
1974 Bo Clarke
1973 Oswald Schrag
1972 Henry Sprinkle
1971 Allan Carlsson
1970 Bob Ayers
1969 Ethel Tiley
1968 Jim Rikard
1967 Maurice Allen
1966 Jose Franquiz
1965 Jackson Ice
1964 Nolan Jacobson
1963 Charles Hartshorne
1962 Wilford Cross
1961 Leroy Loemker
1960 Howard Parsons
1959 Bob Miller
1958 Henry Wieman
1957 Paul Vonk
1956 John Mourant
1955 Edgar Henderson
1954 Richard Hocking
1953 Albert Balz
1952 Godfrey Tietze
1951 J. R. Cresswell
1950 E. D. Myers
1949 John Marshall
1948 Anna Liddell
1947 Kenneth Foreman
1946 Bob Patterson
1945 Fritz Marti
1944 Edward Ramsdell | 