Robert Bolger was born and raised in a working-class family in Northeast Ohio. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning a B.A. degree in philosophy. He then went on to get an M.A. in Theology (Union Theological Seminary in NYC) and a PhD in Philosophy and Religion (Claremont Graduate University).  Robert, deeply influenced by the Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy taught to him by his teacher D.Z. Phillips is the author of Kneeling at the Altar of Science: The Mistaken Path of Contemporary Religious Scientism (Wipf and Stock, 2012), Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Religious Language, Meaning and Use: The God Who is Not There (written with Robert C. Coburn).  He is currently working on a memoir titled: Staring Through the Darkness: My Fear of Death and The Search for Hope. ​