Howard Evan Runner (Ph.D) (1916-2002) graduated with honours from Wheaton College. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. He subsequently received an appointment as a junior fellow at Harvard University. After earning a Master’s degree in theology at Westminster he traveled to The Free University of Amsterdam where he earned his Ph.D. degree. Runner taught Philosophy at Calvin College from 1951 until his retirement in 1981. He is the author of The Christian and the World, The Relation of the Bible to Learning, and several other publications collected in the Walking in the Way of the Word: The Collected Writings of H. Evan Runner.