Francis J. Beckwith Biography

Francis J. "Frank" Beckwith (born 1960) is an American philosopher, Christian apologist, scholar, and lecturer. He is currently Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Program on Philosophical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) at Baylor University, and he was formerly Associate Director of Baylor’s J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies. Beckwith works in the areas of social ethics, applied ethics, legal philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.