Justin L. Barrett serves as the President of Blueprint 1543. He also holds a respected position as an honorary Professor of Theology and the Sciences at St Andrews University School of Divinity.
Spanning his illustrious career, he has taught at numerous prestigious institutions. These include Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Psychology, the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, the University of Michigan, and Calvin University.
Barrett's training as an experimental psychologist has resulted in numerous scholarly publications in the realm of religious science. He has also delved into their philosophical and theological implications. His insightful body of work includes the following books:
- Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (2004)
- Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (2011)
- Born Believers: The Science of Childhood Religion (2012)
- The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion (with Roger Trigg, 2014)
- Religious Cognition in China: Homo Religiosus and the Dragon (with Ryan Hornbeck and Madeleine Kang, 2017)
