William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig ( born August 23, 1949) is an American philosopher of religion, theologian and Christian apologist. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the evangelical Talbot School of Theology, Biola University in La Mirada, California. He has emerged as a writer of books on philosophy of religion, historical Jesus, Christian worldview and intelligent design in appearance. Craig is a member of the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute, the center of the intelligent design movement.

Life

William Craig was sixteen years old evangelical Christian. Craig studied philosophy at Stuart Hackett and was heavily influenced by the writings of Francis Schaeffer Calvinists and Edward John Carnell.

Craig received his doctorate in philosophy at John Hick in Birmingham and in 1984 in theology with Wolfhart Pannenberg at the University of Munich ( as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ).

From 1980 to 1986 he was a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. From 1987 to 1994 he conducted research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

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 Islamic philosophy Ilm al - Kalam. He wrote works on cosmology and the philosophy of time and is a founding member of the Philosophy of Time Society. Craig represents in his neo- Lorentzian interpretation contrary to the usual interpretation of the theory of relativity the need for an absolute reference system, for which he makes philosophical and theological grounds of appeal.

Craig is an outspoken critic of philosophical naturalism, skepticism, genuine homosexuality and philosophical relativism, liberal theology and the Jesus Seminar.

Works

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

  • The existence of God and the origin of the universe; Wuppertal, Zurich: Brockhaus, 1989; ISBN 3-417-20443-7
  • 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 Conti Gents 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
  • Apologetics: An Introduction; Chicago: Moody Press, 1984
  • The Son Rises: Historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus; Chicago: Moody Press, 1981
  • The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe; San Bernardino: Here's Life, 1979

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

  • Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?; John Dominic Crossan debate; ISBN 0-8010-2175-8
  • Jesus ' Resurrection: Fact or Figment; ? Debate with Gerd Lüdemann; ISBN 0-8308-1569-4
  • Does God exist?; Debate with Antony Flew; ISBN 0-7546-3190-7
  • God?; Debate with Walter Sinnott - Armstrong; ISBN 0-19-516599-3
  • The Evidence for Jesus
  • The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus
  • The Disciples ' Inspection of the Empty Tomb
  • The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus
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