Mr. Randy Everist
Department Faculty
Discipline Theology, Apologetics

Mr. Randy Everist

Professor

Teaching since: 2017

Education

  • B.S. in Pastoral Theology, Trinity Baptist College
  • M.A.R. in Biblical Studies, Liberty University
  • M.A. in Philosophy of Religion, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Birmingham (in progress)

Ministry

  • Pastoral Intern, Lighthouse Baptist Church, Sanford, FL, 2009
  • Interim Pastor, Ransdell Chapel Baptist Church, Louisburg, NC, 2014
  • Teaching Team Member, Life Group class, Providence Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, 2014–

Experience

  • Adjunct Faculty, Trinity Baptist College, 2012–
  • Adjunct Faculty, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017–
  • Professor, CCBS, 2017–

Publications

  • Reviewer, “Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine (Andrei A. Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa),” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Vol. 82, No. 3, 2017).
  • Author, “God, Moral Preferability among Worlds, and the Actual World,” Hope’s Reason: A Journal of Apologetics (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2013).
  • Presenter, "Modal Panentheism's Problem of Evil: A Surprising Result," presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Ft. Worth, TX, on November 17, 2021.
  • Presenter, “Molinism, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature,” presented at the Evangelical Theological Society Southwest Regional Meeting in New Orleans, LA, on March 8, 2019.
  • Presenter, “How the Divine Interaction Problem Might be Solved: A Causal Powers Ontology and God,” presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, on November 14, 2018.
  • Presenter, “How the Divine Interaction Problem Might be Solved: A Causal Powers Ontology and God,” presented at the Philosophy of Religion Work-in-Progress Meeting at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, on October 4, 2018.
  • Presenter, “Buckareff, the Pairing Problem, and Theological Realism,” paper presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Providence, RI, on November 17, 2017.
  • Presenter, “God’s Moral Justification in Creating the Actual World,” paper presented at the International Society of Christian Apologetics’ Annual Meeting in Wake Forest, NC, on April 29, 2011.