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Phillip Cary, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy

Eastern University

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rofessor Phillip Cary is Director of the
Philosophy Program at Eastern University
in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, where he
is also Scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton
Honors College. He earned his B.A. in both
English Literature and Philosophy at Washington
University in St. Louis, then earned an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in
both Philosophy and Religious Studies at Yale University. Professor Cary
has taught at Yale University, the University of Hartford, the University
of Connecticut, and Villanova University. He was an Arthur J. Ennis Post-
Doctoral Fellow at Villanova University, where he taught in Villanova’s
nationally acclaimed Core Humanities program.

At Eastern University, he is a recent winner of the Lindback Award for
excellence in undergraduate teaching. His specialty is the thought of
Augustine, on whom he has written three scholarly books for Oxford
University Press: Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self (2000), Inner Grace
(2008) and Outward Signs (2008). He has also written Jonah for the Brazos
Press series, Theological Commentary on the Bible, as well as numerous
articles for philosophical and theological publications. Professor Cary has
published scholarly articles on Augustine, Luther, the doctrine of the Trinity,
and interpersonal knowledge. Professor Cary produced the following popular
courses for The Teaching Company: Augustine: Philosopher and Saint and
Philosophy and Religion in the West. He also contributed to The Teaching
Company’s third edition of the course titled Great Minds of the Western
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