Holly Ordway, Ph.D.

Holly Ordway

Contact:

Office Address: ATWD I 214
Phone: (281) 649-3664

hordway@hbu.edu
Chair, Department of Apologetics
Director, M.A. in Apologetics
Professor of English

Education

MA in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA in Christian Apologetics, Biola University
PhD in English, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Courses Taught

Apologetics Research and Writing
Literature and Apologetics
Medieval Culture and Philosophy
Great Works I
Great Works II

Teaching Focus

Cultural and imaginative apologetics, specifically literary apologetics, with special attention to the intersection of reason and imagination; poetry; and the works of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

Publications

Dr. Ordway is the author of "Not God’s Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith" (Moody, 2010) and is working on a book on literary apologetics. She is also a contributor to the Christian Research Journal, and blogs on literature, culture, and apologetics at Hieropraxis.com.

Additional Information

Dr. Ordway is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Association and the Conference for Christianity in Literature. She is also a poet, and fenced sabre competitively for nearly twenty years.