Kenneth J. Howell, Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is Director of the John Henry Cardinal Newman Institute of Catholic Thought and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Howell is the author of several books, including:
Something Greater is Here (CHResources, 2015),
Clement of Rome & the Didache: A New Translation and Theological Commentary (CHResources, 2013),
Ignatius of Antioch & Polycarp of Smyrna: A New Translation and Theological Commentary (CHResources, 2012), and
God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002).
Dr. Howell holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in the History of Christianity and Science from the University of Lancaster (U.K.).
A Presbyterian minister for eighteen years and a theological professor for seven years in a Protestant seminary, Dr. Howell was confirmed and received into the Catholic Church in 1996.
He and his wife, Sharon, have three children. They live in Champaign, Illinois.