# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-copan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:28:48.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-copan"
name: "Paul Copan"
slug: "paul-copan"
description: "Paul Copan is an American Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. He is currently a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics. He has written and edited over 45 books in the area of philosophy of religion, apologetics, theology, and ethics in the Bible. He has contributed a great number of articles to various professional journals and has written many essays for edited books. For six years he served as the president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society."
tagline: "American philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Paul_Copan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1962-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump