The Idea of Divinity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781466454293)

Dr. Crowder holds B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Ball State University; has completed post-graduate work at the University of Miami (FL); University of Southern California; Claremont Graduate School; and New York University. His graduate areas of concentration are social and intellectual history and political philosophy. He also is the founder of the Ideas Association of America which he formulated in the late 1980s. The charter for The Ideas Association of America was officially signed in July 2011. Its website is ideasusa.org. His career covers 40-plus years in education, including public school teacher in Florida and California to professor and Director of Social Science Division at Miami-Dade Community College and founding president of West Virginia Northern Community College; and then post-retirement as Executive Director of the Florida Association of Colleges & Universities (FACU). He has had an interest in studying the impact of Ideas on humanity for most of his academic career. He published his first book, Ideas that Built America, in 1987, and continued his interest during the next several years. Since retiring from the FACU he has continued his study and research in the field, and in the spring of 2010, taught a seminar at Howey-in-the-Hills Community Church in "Ideas that Built America." Later that year he completed research and published Ideas that Shaped the Western World. He is the author of two textbooks, Ideas that Built America and Ideas that Shaped the Western World; an autobiography, An Improbable Journey; and numerous articles and book reviews.