Austin M. Freeman (PhD Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. His research focus is cultural apologetics, especially the intersection between theology and literature with special emphasis on the theology of J.R.R Tolkien.  He is co-editor of Theology and H.P. Lovecraft (Fortress Academic, 2022) and author of Tolkien Dogmatics (Lexham Presss, 2022).