Drew Smith

Drew Smith

Affiliate Professor of Philosophy & Ethics

School of Theology

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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy of Religion, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2022 

Master of Divinity in Christian Ministry, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 

Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies, Boyce College, 2017 

RESEARCH INTEREST

Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology; Christology; Divine Simplicity; Personal Identity; Christian Ethics; Bioethics 

Drew Smith serves as Pastor of Discipleship at NorthPointe Church and as affiliate professor of philosophy and ethics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses ranging from critical thinking and logic to bioethics and the philosophy of mind. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Southwestern, a Master of Divinity in Christian Ministry from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies from Boyce College. Smith's scholarship engages questions in philosophical theology, publishing on topics such as the divided mind model of the incarnation, necessitism, divine simplicity, and contradictory Christology in journals including Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, and The Journal of Analytic Theology. He is a frequent presenter at the Evangelical Philosophical Society and Evangelical Theological Society annual meetings and has led workshops on argument diagraming and narrative techniques in academic writing. Smith previously served as Youth Pastor at Ninth & O Baptist Church, as an editor for Southwestern'sResearch Doctoral Studies Office, and as a humanities teacher at Legacy Classical Christian Academy, where his work earned him ACCS certification. He also holds a certificate in biblical counseling from Southwestern. 

Ministry Experience

2023–Present: Pastor of Discipleship, NorthPointe Church 

2016–2021: Youth Pastor, Ninth & O Baptist Church

Academic Articles

"The Divided Mind Model Defended: A Response to Tim Bayne" (2023), The Journal of Analytic Theology https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/427  

"The Problem of Necessitism" (2023), Philosophia Christi 25(2): 281–295 https://philpapers.org/rec/SMITPO-148   

"From Modal Collapse to Moral Collapse" (2025), Religious Studies 61(2): 395–409.  https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0034412524000234/type/journal_article 

"An Atonement Problem for Contradictory Christology" (2025), TheoLogica 9(1) https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/theologica/article/download/78863/73763/161883  

"A Multifaceted Model of the Imago Dei Based on Thomistic Love" (2024), Sophia 65(1): 57–67https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-024-01045-7