Mark Wrathall

"[2] Mark (Adam) Wrathall was born in Provo, Utah in 1965, and was raised in the towns of Greece and Pittsford in upstate New York.

After clerking for Cecil F. Poole at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, he pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a student of the Heidegger scholar Hubert Dreyfus, graduating in 1996, with a disseration on “Unconcealment and Truth”.

He draws on Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to describe how secularism and technology undermine belief in objective eternal meanings and values.

But Wrathall thinks nihilism also "opens up access to richer and more relevant ways for us to understand creation and for us to encounter the divine and the sacred.

"[citation needed] He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.