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Good does not triumph unless good people rise
to the challenges around them. - Alister McGrath
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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.- Alister McGrath
Alister Edgar McGrath (born 23 January 1953) is a Northern Irish theologian,
priest, intellectual historian, scientist, and Christian apologist. He currently holds the
Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology
and Religion at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of Divinity at Gresham
College. He was previously Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education
at King's College London and Head of the Centre
for Theology, Religion and Culture, Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, and was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, until 2005. He is an Anglican
priest.
Aside
from being a faculty member at Oxford, McGrath has also taught at Cambridge University and is a Teaching Fellow
at Regent
College. McGrath holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford: a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in Theology and a Doctor
of Letters in Intellectual History.
McGrath
is noted for his work in historical theology, systematic theology, and the relationship between science
and religion, as well as his writings on apologetics. He is also known for his
opposition to New Atheism and antireligionism
and his advocacy of theological critical realism. Among
his best-known books are The Twilight of Atheism, The Dawkins Delusion, Dawkins' God:
Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and A Scientific Theology. He is also the
author of a number of popular textbooks on theology.
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