VERITAS - Key Persons
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- Chief Academic Officer ( CAO )
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- Director of Student Services
- Student Affairs / Career
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- Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies
Dr. Jay Smith is adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Veritas International University and scholar at the Pfander Center for Apologetics (UK). He earned his PhD in Islamic Studies at Melbourne School of Theology in Australia, and is one of the world's best Christian scholars on Islam and manuscripts studies of the Qur'an. He earned his BA from Messiah College, his MDiv from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his ThM in Missiology (with an emphasis in Islam) from Fuller Theological Seminary. Jay is uniquely qualified to understand and address the differences between Christian and Islamic doctrines and culture. He is often seen debating Muslim scholars and engaging in polemics/apologetics on his Pfanderfilms YouTube site, as well as in universities and schools around the world.
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- Director of the Scientific Analysis Group for the Tall El - Hammam / Sodom Excavations
Dr. Phillip Silvia is the Director of the Scientific Analysis Group for the Tall el-Hammam/Sodom Excavations in Jordan. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Archaeology, Trinity Southwest University, and a Visiting Specialist at Veritas International University School of Archaeology. His research into the destruction event that destroyed ancient Sodom is at the cutting edge of archaeological and astrophysical science, most recently presented in a paper at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting (2018) and featured in a National Geographic documentary film (2019). Dr. Silvia is an expert in biblical catastrophism, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the cosmic airburst destruction of Sodom.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
- President
- Administration
Welcome to Veritas International University! Choosing the right learning environment is an important decision. After all, ideas do have consequences. Instead of campus "safe spaces", "cry-ins", campus chaos, overpriced tuition, activist liberal faculty, intolerance for conservative ideas, and excused student absences because of the inability to cope with political and cultural change, you should expect from VIU a balanced Christ-centered education that strengthens the whole person-mind, spirit, and body. As an independent private Christian university we strive to offer a well-rounded educational and spiritual experience that emerges from the inspired, infallible, and inerrant truth of the Bible…..
Dr. Joseph Holden, is the President, co-founder (with Norman L. Geisler) and professor of Theology and apologetics at Veritas International University located in Santa Ana, California. He received his PhD in Theology from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter, Wales) and his M.Div. in apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary (NC). In addition, Joe is the general editor of the Defending Inerrancy initiative that promotes awareness of biblical inerrancy among evangelical scholars and Christian lay-persons. He is also the editor, author or co-author of several apologetics and archaeology books including his most recent work The Harvest Handbook of Apologetics (2019); The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible: Discoveries that Confirm the Reliability of the Scriptures (2013). He is also an associate editor and contributor to The Apologetics Study Bible for Students (2010), and co-author of Charts of Apologetics and Christian Evidences (2006) and Living Loud: Defending Your Faith (2002). He is also a co-editor of the forthcoming book The Harvest Handbook of Bible Lands: A Panoramic Survey of the History, Geography and Culture of the Scriptures (Harvest House Publishers, 2020).
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- Director of Institutional Effectiveness
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- Business Manager / Human Resources
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- Admin
- IT Manager / Site Admin