Harry Lee Poe (born 1950) is an American academic. He is the Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and author of a number of books.

Harry Lee Poe
Born(1950-11-16)November 16, 1950
EducationUniversity of South Carolina (BA) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., Ph.D.)[1]
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests
Epistemology, Christian apologetics, philosophy of religion, systematic theology, Edgar Allan Poe, C.S. Lewis, Evangelism

He is a relative of the family of Edgar Allan Poe[2] and president of the Poe Foundation.[3][4] He was the director of the Poe writers conference in 2007.[5]

His book Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories won the Edgar Award for 2009 in the category best critical/biographical. The same book received an Agatha nomination for best non-fiction book.[6]

Bibliography edit

  • The Fruit of Christ's Presence (1990) ISBN 0-8054-6012-8
  • The Gospel and Its Meaning: A Theology for Evangelism and Church Growth (1996) ISBN 0-310-20172-1
  • Science and Faith: An Evangelical Dialogue [Co-author] (2000) ISBN 0-8054-2142-4
  • Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (2001) ISBN 0-687-04931-8
  • Designer Universe: Intelligent Design and the Existence of God [Co-authored with Jimmy H Davis] (2002) ISBN 0-8054-2447-4
  • Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Learning (2004) ISBN 0-8010-2723-3
  • C. S. Lewis Remembered: Collected Reflections of Students, Friends & Colleagues ISBN 0-310-26509-6
  • See No Evil: The Existence of Sin in an Age of Relativism (2004) ISBN 0-8254-3371-1
  • What God Knows: Time and the Question of Divine Knowledge (2005) ISBN 1-932792-12-0
  • Meditations on the good, the true, and the beautiful (2008) ISBN 0-8272-1252-6
  • The Inklings of Oxford : a pictorial account (2008) ISBN 0-310-28503-8
  • Chance or dance : an evaluation of design (2008) ISBN 1-59947-133-7
  • Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (2008) ISBN 1-4351-0469-2 NOTE: This title won the 2009 Edgar award in the category best critical/biographical.
  • God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History [co-authored with Jimmy H Davis] (2012) ISBN 0-8308-3954-2
  • Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe (2012) ISBN 1-6025-8322-6

References edit

  1. ^ "Hal L. Poe".
  2. ^ "No one disturbs graceful mystery of Poe visitor". The Daily Courier. January 20, 2003.
  3. ^ "A Paean to Poe". The Washington Post. January 15, 2006.
  4. ^ "Staff". Poe Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
  5. ^ "Edgar Allan Poe Young Writer's Conference". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  6. ^ "Hal L. Poe: The Union Scholarship Project".

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