William Lane Craig | |
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![]() Craig in 2014 | |
Born | Peoria, Illinois, U.S. | August 23, 1949
Education | Wheaton College (BA) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MA) University of Birmingham (PhD) University of Munich (ThD) |
Notable work | Reasonable Faith (1994) |
Spouse |
Jan Craig (m. 1972) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy Molinism Neo-Apollinarianism |
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Doctoral advisor | |
Other academic advisors | Norman Geisler |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | Kalam cosmological argument |
Website | www |
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism.[2][3] He is a professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University and at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University.[4]
Craig has updated and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God.[5][6][7][8][9] He has also published work where he argues in favor of the historical plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus.[10] His study of divine aseity and Platonism culminated with his book God Over All.[11][12]
Schneider 2013
was invoked but never defined (see the help page)....[Craig is] the leading Christian apologist, famous for his revival of the Kalam cosmological argument which asserts that God caused the universe to first exist.
Although the argument fell into relatively obscurity after it was promoted in the Middle Ages, it received new life through William Lane Craig's 1979 book The Kalam Cosmological Argument. Craig has become the argument's leading proponent, and thanks to his famous debates with atheists that end up on YouTube, the kalam argument has become well-known and is vigorously dissected by critics.