Craig Hazen

Craig Hazen is the founder and director of the master's program with a concentration in Christian apologetics and director of the master's program with a concentration in science and religion at Biola University. Craig is the editor of Philosophia Christi, a philosophy journal. He is also the author of the monograph The Village Enlightenment in America; the acclaimed apologetics novel Five Sacred Crossings; and dozens of articles and chapters in various books and journals. He is a recipient of the Fischer Award, the highest faculty honor at Biola, and has lectured across North America and Europe on key apologetics topics, including lectures on Capitol Hill and in the White House. He is a popular church and conference speaker and a former co-host of a national radio talk program.

Affiliation Faculty
Position Director, Christian Apologetics Program
Position Professor of Christian Apologetics

Author's books

Fearless Prayer: Why We Don’t Ask and Why We Should

You’ve likely scratched your head over this verse, wondering how literally to take it. Could Jesus have been serious about His over-the-top declaration? Can you really ask for anything? If you think these words can’t possibly mean what they say, Craig Hazen wants to reveal the astonishing reality of this promise. You’ll learn why Christians hesitate to embrace this powerful statement and how you can put it to work in your life for the sake of God’s kingdom.

Five Sacred Crossings: A Novel

An unlikely adventurer, a Christian college professor named Michael Jernigan, takes a classroom full of students on a fascinating journey through an ancient Cambodian text called The Five Crossings. The mysterious lessons on life, art, philosophy, and religious truth are explosively punctuated by an all-too-realistic terrorist plot in southern California. Because of his rare language abilities, Jernigan is called upon to translate some intercepted messages and finds himself thrust into an incredibly tense situation where thousands of lives are at stake.

Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics

Passionate Conviction brings together the most popular and heart-stirring presentations in defense of Christianity from the annual fall conference on apologetics held in association with the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the C. S. Lewis Institute, and the Christian Apologetics program at Biola University. Applicable to pastors, serious-minded lay people, and university and high school students, these twenty essays are grouped into six dynamic categories: (1) Why Apologetics? (2) God (3) Jesus (4) Comparative Religions (5) Postmodernism and Relativism (6) Practical Application.

The Apologetics Study Bible

The Apologetics Study Bible helps today’s Christians better understand, defend, and proclaim their beliefs in this age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism. More than one-hundred key questions and articles placed throughout the volume about faith and science prompt a rewarding study experience at every reading. Highlights of this thinking person’s edition of God’s Word include the full text of the popular HCSB translation, an introduction to each Bible book focusing on its inherent elements of apologetics, and profiles of historic Christian apologists from Justin Martyr to C.S. Lewis.

The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century

The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.