William Lane Craig

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William Lane Craig (2005)

William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949 ) is an American religious philosopher , theologian and Christian apologist . He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot Evangelical School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California . He has appeared as the author of books and numerous scientific publications on the philosophy of religion , the historical Jesus , Christian worldview and intelligent design . Craig is a member of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture , the center of the intelligent design movement. On his website, however, he advocates that Christians should always consider theories of the intelligent design movement in the light of biology.

Life

Craig was born in Peoria , Illinois , the second of three children to Mallory and Doris Craig . Craig's father works for TP & W. Railroad, so the family moved to Keokuk , Iowa . In 1960, the father moved to the company's headquarters in East Peoria and the family moved there. During his time at East Peoria Community High School (1963-67) he took part in debating competitions. In his senior year in high school , Craig was on his state's debating team and won its debating competition. On the night of September 11, 1965, he experienced a dramatic conversion to Christianity that changed the course of his life.

After graduating from high school, Craig attended Wheaton College , an evangelical college west of Chicago . There he continued his debating activities, with an emphasis on communication. He was later honored there as a graduate of the year. At Wheaton, Craig was taught by Stuart Hackett, whose work Resurrection of Theism (1957) had a great philosophical influence on Craig's thoughts. During his time at Wheaton, it was his studies of Edward John Carnell's Introduction to Christian Apologetics (1948) that sparked Craig's interest in Christian apologetics. Craig graduated in 1971 and married his wife Jan the following year, whom he met while on an assignment with Campus Crusade for Christ International .

Craig studied religious philosophy from 1973 at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with Norman Geisler. At the same time he studied theology with David Wells, Clark Pinnock, Murray Harris and John Warwick Montgomery . He was awarded Masters in Church History and Spiritual History of Christianity.

In 1975 Craig began his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, where he wrote on The Cosmological Argument under the direction of John Hick. As a result of his studies, he wrote his first book, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), a defense of the argument he first encountered in Hackett's work. In 1978, Craig became a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and conducted research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Wolfhart Pannenberg on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ , which led to another doctorate in theology, which in 1984 after the publication of The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus during the Deist Controversy .

In 1980, Craig joined Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he taught philosophy of religion for the next 7 years. During these years he began a long-term study of the philosophical analysis of essential divine attributes, beginning with God's omniscience. The first result of his studies was Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (1990). In 1982 Craig was invited to a debate with Kai Nielsen at the University of Calgary , Canada, on the question of the existence of God. This was followed by a series of debates on philosophical and theological issues involving Craig philosophers, scholars and biblical scholars such as Antony Flew , EM Curley, Richard Taylor, Quentin Smith , Michael Tooley, Paul Draper, Shelly Kagan, Peter Millican, Paul Kurtz, Peter Atkins , Lawrence Krauss , Richard Dawkins , Francisco Ayala, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Ray Hoover, Bart D. Ehrman , Gerd Lüdemann and Christopher Hitchens .

After a year at Westmont College on the outskirts of Santa Barbara , Craig moved back to Europe with his wife and two children in 1987, where he spent the next seven years as a visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Based on this research, he published seven books, including God, Time and Eternity (2001). In 1994, Craig accepted JP Moreland and R. Douglas Geivett's invitation to join the Philosophy and Ethics Department at the Talbot School of Theology in Los Angeles as Professor of Philosophy. He still holds this position today.

William Craig is married and lives in Atlanta , Georgia .

Positions

Craig is a staunch defender of Christian theism , and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ . He deals with the causal proof of God in the tradition of the Islamic philosophy Ilm al-Kalam . He has written works on cosmology and the philosophy of time and is a founding member of the Philosophy of Time Society. In his Neo-Lorentzian interpretation , Craig represents, contrary to the usual interpretation of the theory of relativity, the need for an absolute reference system , for which he claims philosophical and theological reasons.

Craig is an open critic of philosophical naturalism , skepticism , philosophical relativism , liberal theology, and the Jesus seminar . He takes the view that a professing Christian should not engage in homosexual acts, but notes that the same applies to extramarital sexual relationships.

Works

William Craig has written and edited numerous books and published over a hundred articles in scientific journals.

German books
  • On Guard - Defend the Faith with wisdom and precision. Munich: cvmd, 2015, ISBN 978-3981772906 .
  • The existence of God and the origin of the universe. Wuppertal, Zurich: Brockhaus, 1989, ISBN 3-417-20443-7 .
  • The cosmological Kalām proof of God; published in the anthology: Joachim Bromand, Guido Kreis (Hrsg.): Gottesbeweise - von Anselm bis Gödel, Suhrkamp Verlag (Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft 1946), Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29546-5 .
English books
  • On Guard. Colorado Springs, 2010.
  • Hard Questions, Real Answers. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2003.
  • Time and The Metaphysics of Relativity (Ed.). Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.
  • Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide (Ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
  • Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2001.
  • The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
  • The Tenseless Theory of Time - A Critical Examination. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
  • Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics. Westchester: Crossway Books, 1994.
  • Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom. Leiden: EJ Brill, 1991.
  • No Easy Answers: Finding Hope in Doubt, Failure and Unanswered Prayer. Chicago: Moody Press, 1990.
  • Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus. New York, Queenston; Lewiston, 1989.
  • Knowing the Truth About the Resurrection. Ann Arbor: Servant, 1988.
  • The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez: The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience. Leiden: EJ Brill, 1988.
  • The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge & Human Freedom. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.
  • The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy. New York, Queenston: Lewiston, 1985.
  • Apologetics: An Introduction. Chicago: Moody Press, 1984.
  • The Son Rises: Historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Chicago: Moody Press, 1981.
  • Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz. London: MacMillan, 1980.
  • The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe. San Bernardino: Here's Life, 1979.
  • The Kalam Cosmological Argument. London: MacMillan 1979.
Debates

Craig has publicly debated with many prominent academic atheists and skeptical theologians . Some of these debates have been published as books, including:

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literature

  • Kenneth D. Boa, Robert M. Bowman: Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity. Colorado Springs: NAV Press, 2001, pp. 81-84.
  • William J. Wainwright, Book Review: The Kalam Cosmological Argument. In: Nous 16 (1982), pp. 328-334.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.talbot.edu/faculty/profile/william_craig/
  2. ^ William L. Craig, "Should Christians accept intelligent design?" [1]
  3. ^ East Peoria, IL . City data. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  4. ^ Records and History - Original Oratory . Illinois High School Association. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Faculty Profile . Biola University. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  6. ^ William Lane Craig and Sean McDowell . Fervr. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  7. ^ Biographical Sketch . Reasonable Faith. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ Faith and Doubt . Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on February 26, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reasonablefaith.org
  9. ^ Top Ten Christian Colleges . Forbes. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  10. ^ Curriculum vitae . In: Reasonable Faith . William Lane Craig. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reasonablefaith.org
  11. ↑ a b Dr. William Lane Craig Named Alumnus of the Year . Wheaton College. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wheaton.edu
  12. ^ William Lane Craig | People, Biola University. In: www.biola.edu. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
  13. ^ Nathan Schneider: 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher . Killing the Buddha. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  14. ^ Double Doctorates . Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reasonablefaith.org
  15. ^ Author Profile . IVP. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 8, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ivpress.com
  16. ^ What is the Meaning of Failure for the Christian? . Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reasonablefaith.org
  17. ^ Faculty Page . Houston Baptist University. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  18. ^ Apologetics Videos . Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  19. ^ Christian Apologist Says Church Losing Battle Against Hate Label for Homosexuality Stance .

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DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1949