Biography
Greg Welty is currently Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern (2010-present). He has been married to his wife Rose for thirty years, and they have three sons. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (BA, Philosophy), Westminster Theological Seminary in California (MDiv), and the University of Oxford (MPhil, DPhil, Philosophical Theology; Oriel College, supervisor: Richard Swinburne). He was a teaching assistant for John Frame at Westminster (1993-1997), a stipendiary lecturer in philosophy at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford (2000-2001), and an assistant professor of philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas (2003-2010).
He is also the Program Coordinator for the MA in Philosophy of Religion at Southeastern, and served as a pastor for over ten years. He specializes in the relation between abstract objects and God, the problem of evil, theories of divine providence, theistic arguments, and philosophy of religion more generally. He is the author, most recently, of 40 Questions About Suffering and Evil (Kregel Publications, 2024), Alvin Plantinga (P&R Publishing, 2023), and Why Is There Evil in the World? (Christian Focus, 2018). He is co-editor of Calvinism and Middle Knowledge: A Conversation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, February 2019) and co-edits the series of ten apologetics volumes The Big Ten – Critical Questions Answered (Christian Focus). He has contributed to Advice to Christian Philosophers: Reflections on the Past and Future of Christian Philosophy (Hanover Press, 2024), Contemporary Arguments in Natural Theology: God and Rational Belief (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), The History of Apologetics: A Biographical and Methodological Introduction (Zondervan, 2020), Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism (Routledge Studies in Philosophy of Religion) (Routledge, 2018), Calvinism and the Problem of Evil (Wipf and Stock, 2016), Beyond the Control of God? Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), and Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue (Broadman & Holman Academic, 2008). He has also contributed to Philosophia Christi, Faith and Philosophy, Themelios, the Concise Theology project at The Gospel Coalition, and served as a referee for several journals in philosophy of religion.
Education
BA, University of California at Los Angeles
MDiv, Westminister Theological Seminary in California
MPhil, DPhil, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Professional Experience
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC
Professor of Philosophy, 2016 – present
Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Philosophy of Religion; Summer 2012 – present
Program Coordinator, Master of Arts in Apologetics and Christian Philosophy; Fall 2016 – present
Faculty Advisory Committee; Fall 2022 – Spring 2024
Admissions Committee; Fall 2011 – Summer 2022
Associate Professor of Philosophy; 2010 – 2016
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX
Assessment Task Force; December 2007 – May 2010
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; 2003 – 2010
Assistant Dean, Division of Ethics and Philosophical Studies; January 2008 – July 2009
Seminary Master’s Council; 2006-2007
D.Min. Program Task Force; 2005
The College at Southwestern Task Force; 2004-2005
University of Oxford, Regent’s Park College
Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy; 2000 – 2001
Westminster Theological Seminary, Escondido, CA
Teaching Assistant for John Frame; 1993 – 1996
Ministry/Missions Experience
Grace Baptist Church of Wake Forest, NC
Elder, December 2013 – July 2019
Redeemer Church, Fort Worth, TX
Occasional preaching; 2008 – 2010
Heritage Baptist Church, Mansfield, TX
Occasional preaching; 2003 – 2008
Albert Street Chapel, Oxford (UK)
Elder; May 2000 – March 2003
Grace Bible Church of Escondido, CA
Pastor of college/career/young marrieds, 1993 – 1998
Placerita Baptist Church, Newhall, CA
Deacon, 1990-1993
Awards/Achievements
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (8/22/2019)
University of Oxford
Graduate Scholarship (Oriel College), renewed each year: 2001 – 2003
Graduate Studentship (Faculty of Theology), renewed each year: 1999 – 2003
Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme, renewed each year: 1998 – 2003
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
Westminster Theological Seminary in California
Van Til Scholarship Prize for theological writing, Spring 1995
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Graduated summa cum laude; 1993
Departmental Honors in Philosophy; 1993
Dean’s Honors List; Spring 1991 – Spring 1993
Irene Wilde Scholarship; 1991 – 1993
