his article "I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come", he concludes that Christians must account for some sort of physical continuity in their account of existence of the same person after death. In particular, Van Inwagen notes, this is a problem for the Christian materialist, one who believes that human beings are physical substances. Awards and honors He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and was President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008/09. He was the President of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 2010 to 2013. He has delivered lectures including: The F.D. Maurice Lectures, three lectures delivered at the University of London in March 1999 The Wilde Lectures on Natural Religion, eight lectures delivered at Oxford University in Trinity Term, 2000 The Stewart Lectures: three lectures delivered at Princeton University, October 2002 The Gifford Lectures, eight lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews, May 2003 The Jellema Lectures: two lectures delivered at Calvin College, March 2004 The Münster Lectures in Philosophy, including a student colloquium at the University of Münster, November 2015 In May 2011 it was announced that he is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Books Personal life Van Inwagen lives in Granger, Indiana, with his wife Elisabeth. Van Inwagen converted to Christianity in 1980. See also American philosophy List of American philosophers Mereological nihilism Notes References Works cited Sources External links Official Page at the University of Notre Dame The Problem of Evil, Oxford University Press, 2006. (Gifford Lectures 2002) Papers by van Inwagen Van Inwagen (Brief professional overview) Argument Against Free Will "Metaphysics" (Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Interviews from the PBS program Closer to Truth 1942 births 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American philosophers 20th-century American theologians 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American philosophers Action theorists American Episcopalians American male essayists American male non-fiction writers American philosophy academics Analytic philosophers Anglican philosophers Christian philosophers Duke University faculty Living people Metaphysicians Metaphysics writers People from Granger, Indiana Philosophers of mind Philosophers of religion Philosophers of science Presidents of the American Philosophical Association Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers Syracuse University faculty University of Notre Dame faculty University of Rochester alumni Writers about religion and science American people of