Office Phone: 724-847-6702
rmfrazie@geneva.edu

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Philosophy
• Biblical Studies

Degrees Received

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1993, State University of New York at Buffalo, Dissertation: Holding and Modifying Beliefs: Critical Thinking and the Problem of Minimal Rationality.
• M.A. in Theological Studies in Old Testament Literature, 1981, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
• B.A. in Biblical Studies, 1978, Gordon College.

Courses Taught

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Cicero
• Augustine
• Kierkegaard
• Early Modern Philosohpy
• Kant
• C.S. Lewis
• Pragmatism
• Logic
• Ethical Theories
• Epistemology
• Introduction to Philosophy
• The Art of Inquiry
• Polotoical Philosophy
• Democratic Political Thought
• Christian Understanding of Life
• Contemporary Religious Thought
• Nietzsche
• History of the Reformation
• Business Ethics
• Humanities
• Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy
• Austin and Wittgenstein
• Introducation to the Old Testament

Presentations/Publications

• “Pittsburgh Baseball: The Stuff of Heroes.” Geneva Review (September,2005).

•  “Augustine’s Public Philosophy.” Evangelical Theological Society, 2006.

• “Foreword” in Rev. Joseph Hill, John Calvin on Suffering: Understanding the Love of God. (Webster, NY: The Evangelical Press, 2005).

• “Gnothi Seauton and the Limiting Effects of Noetic Sin: An Augustinian View.” Evangelical Theological Society, November, 2005.

• “Prophetic Consciousness in an Age of Affluence.” The Walter Vail Watson Lectures on Reformed Theology, Lancaster, NY, October, 2005.

• “Inhabiting the Void: Smith’s Assessment of Radical Orthodoxy,” Geneva College colloquium on James Smith’s Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, March, 2006. 

• “Considering the Tie that Binds: The Scottish Presbyterian and Neocalvinism Divide.” Paper prepared for the Trustees of Geneva College, April, 2006.

• “The State of Just War Theory.” Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church, May, 2005.

• “Are We Intellectually Obligated to Believe Morally.”  Faculty paper given at Geneva College, January 1997.

• “Wisdom Revisited.” Paper given at the Breakfast Seminar for Theological Reflection, Canisius College, Buffalo, Spring, 1995.

• “ The Limitations of Belief Formation.”  Philosophy Colloquium, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, fall, 1993.

• “Traditions of Memory.” Commencement address, Consortium of the Niagara Frontier, Fall, 1989.

• “Intellectual Passion: The Focus of the Educated Person.” Commencement address, Consortium of the Niagara Frontier, Wyoming Correctional Facility, Spring, 1989.

Current Projects

• I am engaged in two writing projects. The first concerns Augustine’s political philosophy and the second is a look at the notion of the noetic effects of sin. It is my hope that both of these will become book length manuscripts.

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• American Philosophical Association

• Evangelical Theological Society

• Evangelical Philosophical Society

• Society of Christian Philosophy

Miscellaneous, e.g., hobbies, sports, personal info, etc.

• I continue to have the opportunity to preach several Sundays each month. I served in a variety of pastoral positions from 1980-2004 and still find preaching as a great love. I returned to my home town of Beaver Falls in 1995 to pastor and long to see her renewed: spiritually, economically and socially. I believe Geneva, and those associated with it, have a significant role to play in the revitalization of the local community and Western PA.

• I enjoy spending as much time as possible with my two grandchildren, Chase and Cadence. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife (Marina), four amazing children (Megan, Abby, Tim and Daniel) and two fine sons-in law (Brent and Craig). I love musicals, jazz and big band music. I am awed at the beautiful, wonder-filled at the good and true, and delighted by the excellence of my colleagues.