Os Guinness

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Os Guinness

Os Guinness (born September 30, 1941 in China ) is a British sociologist, social critic, teacher, evangelical apologist and thought leader, speaker and author of over thirty books.

Life

Guinness is a descendant of the famous Irish brewer Arthur Guinness and the son of a missionary doctor. He grew up in China and witnessed the Communists' seizure of power in 1949, who expelled his family in 1951. He then attended schools in England and studied theology and philosophy at the University of London . He continued his studies and did his PhD in sociology with Peter Berger at Oxford University . There he received a PhD in Social Sciences from Oriel College .

In the 1960s, Guinness worked with the philosophers and evangelical apologist Francis Schaeffer in the faith community L'Abri in Swiss Huémoz . He then worked as a freelance reporter for the BBC . In 1984 he moved to the United States, where he was visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson Center and professor at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, DC . 1986 to 198 was a foundation director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation .

Guinness has also been a speaker at many prestigious universities, in front of business people and in front of politicians worldwide. He is one of the speakers in the team of the US apologist Ravi Zacharias . He is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics in Oxford and the EastWest Institute in New York .

Private

Guinness is married and lives in Washington, DC

Fonts

  • The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 1973
  • In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & How to Resolve It , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 1976
  • The Gravedigger File , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 1983
  • Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace , The Brookings Institution, 1990
  • No God but God , Moody Press, Chicago 1992
  • The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith , Free, 1992
  • Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity , Baker. 1993
  • The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever , Crossway 1994
  • Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It , Baker 1994
  • God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt , Crossway 1996
  • The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life , Thomas Nelson 1998
  • Invitation to the Classics , Baker 1998
  • Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn , Baker 1999
  • Unriddling our Times , Baker 1999
  • Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies , Hype and Spin, Baker 2000
  • When No One Sees: Character in an Age of Image , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2000
  • Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2000
  • The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2001
  • Doing Well and Doing Good , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2001
  • Entrepreneurs of Life , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2001
  • The Journey , NavPress, Colorado Springs 2001
  • Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life , WaterBrook 2003
  • Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance , Baker 2003
  • Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil , HarperCollins 2005
  • The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It , Harper One 2008
  • The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church , Regal 2010
  • A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 2012
  • The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 2013
  • Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 2014
  • Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion , InterVarsity Press, Chicago 2015

Translations into German

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judd Birdsall: Os Guinness: Liberals and Conservatives Are Getting Religious Freedom Wrong. The social critic says a foundational human right really is under threat at home and abroad. Christianity Today September 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Tim Stafford: Os Guinness: Welcome to the 'Grand Age of Apologetics. Christianity Today July 23, 2015
  3. ↑ http://www.osguinness.com/about/
personal data
SURNAME Guinness, Os
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist, social critic, evangelical apologist and thought leader, speaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH China