Bible scholar and author Dr. Gordon R. Lewis, 89, died June 11, 2016 at his home in Littleton, Colorado. Until his death, Dr. Lewis served as senior professor of Christian philosophy and theology at Denver Seminary (@denverseminary). He was a full-time faculty member from 1958-1993.

In 2013, Denver Seminary created the Gordon Lewis Center for Christian Thought and Culture, named after Dr. Gordon Lewis, to engage the needs of the world with the redemptive power of the gospel and the life-changing truth of Scripture by using the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and apologetics to explore the question of what it means to be a Christian.

Dr. Lewis earned a PhD from Syracuse University and also studied at Baptist Bible Seminary, Gordon College, Faith Theological Seminary, and Cornell University. He served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society (1992) and the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He founded Evangelical Ministries to New Religions. Dr. Lewis served as a visiting professor at Union Biblical Seminary, Yeotmal, Maharashtra, India. He published one of the earliest evangelical critiques of transcendental meditation in What Everyone Should Know about Transcendental Meditation, which has been republished in Bombay. Dr. Lewis’ books include Decide for Yourself: A Theological Workbook, Confronting the Cults, Judge for Yourself, Testing Christianity’s Truth Claims, and with colleague Dr. Bruce Demarest, Challenges to Inerrancy and Integrative Theology which presents a distinctive method to help people discover truth when facing conflicting claims in a diverse world.