Alister McGrath

Alister Edgar McGrath ( born January 23, 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a professor of theology at King's College London and Director of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture of the University. Previously, he held a chair of Historical Theology at Oxford Centre of Christian Apologetics, which he headed at the same time as President.

  • 3.1 German
  • 3.2 English

Life

McGrath was educated at Methodist College Belfast in mathematics, physics and chemistry. After graduating in 1975, he worked for three years at Oxford University in the study of molecular biophysics and studied theology at the same time. In 1977 he was Dr. phil. nat., 1978, he completed his theological studies. In 1981 he became an Anglican priest. After several years as a pastor, he came in 1983 as a lecturer in dogmatic theology and ethics to Oxford.

In 1990 he was Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Drew University and from 1993-97 Professor of Theology in Vancouver. He was Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford in 1999. Since September 2008 he has held a chair of theology at the University of London.

His special areas of expertise are dogmatics, church history, the relationship between faith and science and evangelical spirituality.

Works

McGrath describes himself as a former atheist McGrath accepted Darwin's theory of evolution. With his latest book Atheism craze he answers to the book The God Delusion his former university colleague Richard Dawkins. McGrath sees in this book by Dawkins, in contrast to his previous books, little scientific analysis, but pseudoscientific speculation, peppered with a general critique of religion, which were mostly borrowed from older atheistic literature. McGrath regrets that a " so talented and generally understandable scientist " as Dawkins aggressively represent a fundamentalist atheism in this book without his other objective observation and painstaking research.

Criticism and reaction Dawkins'

Dawkins responded to the criticism in McGrath's work, Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, which accused him, in front of Christian theology to be ignorant by asking how McGrath would respond to the criticism of a " Feenwissenschaftlers " who would accuse him of ignorance of his faith. In the in The Dawkins Delusion? expressed by McGrath charge of being dogmatic, Dawkins replied, scientists are humble enough to admit that they did not know.

" McGrath himself has subjected the nicaeaischen creed. The universe was created by a supernatural being who is three in one. Not four, not two, but three. The Christian doctrine is remarkably specific: Not only in terms of the big questions of the universe and of life. [ ... ] And yet, McGrath has the almighty audacity to accuse me naïve belief that science has all the answers. [ ... ] Is McGrath an " ideological fanatic " because he does not believe in Thor's Hammer? Of course not. Why did he then claims that I was one, just because I see no reason to believe in the particular God whose existence he champions a lack of modesty and evidence? "

Documentary

Alister McGrath was also for the documentary The Root of All Evil? interviewed by Richard Dawkins, but cut from the film. McGrath claimed that Dawkins had felt uncomfortable during the interview. McGrath threw Dawkins journalistic Unseriösität. Dawkins wanted to convey a very specific direction and therefore McGrath's lecture had been cut out. The McGrath interview was later published in full on the DVD of "The Root of All Evil? " in the bonus program.

German

  • The Atheism Delusion: A response to Richard Dawkins and the atheist fundamentalism, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86591-289-3
  • Science and Religion, 2001, ISBN 3-451-27008-0
  • The Case of the Cross, 1996, ISBN 3-7655-1028-9
  • John Calvin: A Biography, 1991, ISBN 3-545-34095-3
  • The path of Christian Theology, 2nd edition, 2007 ISBN 978-3-7655-9492-2

English

  • The Dawkins Delusion: Atheist fundamentalism and the denial of the divine, 2007, ISBN 9780281059270
  • The Science of God: An Introduction To Scientific Theology, 2004, ISBN 0802828159
  • The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, 2004, ISBN 0385500610
  • The Intellectual Origins of European Reformation, 2003, ISBN 0631229396
  • Christian Theology: An Introduction, 2001, ISBN 0631225285
  • The Christian Theology Reader, 2001, ISBN 063120637X
  • Christian Spirituality: An introduction, 1999, ISBN 0631212817
  • Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought, 1998, ISBN 0631208445
  • "I Believe": Exploring the Apostles ' Creed, 1998 ISBN 0830819460
  • Justitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification, 1998, ISBN 0521624266
  • Intellectuals Do not Need God and Other Modern Myths, 1993, ISBN 0310590914
  • Understanding Doctrine, 1992, ISBN 0310479517
  • Luther 's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther 's Theological Breakthrough, 1990, ISBN 0631175490
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