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Richard Swinburne

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'''Richard Swinburne''' (born 26 December 1934) is an English Christian philosopher and Emeritus professor of the philosophy of the Christian religion at [[Oxford University]]. He taught there from 1985 until 2002 before achieving Emeritus status.

His main research interests are the justification of the central claims of [[Christianity]] as well as all of the central issues of philosophy.<ref>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie0087/</ref>

In his writings, Swinburne has defended the existence of God as well as substance dualism which holds that there exists an immaterial soul or mind for each individual human being. In his book ''Is There a God?'', Swinburne gives a form of the Teleological (Design) Argument for God's existence. He is also an '''open theist''', meaning that he believes that God is inside time and does not know the future with certainty.

==Education==
Swinburne was educated at Oxford where he earned a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1957. In 1959, he earned a B.Phil.<ref>http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=263</ref>

==Writings==

*"The Coherence of Theism", 1977; revised 1993
*''The Existence of God'', 1979; revised 2004
*''The Evolution of the Soul'', 1986
*''Is There a God?'', 1996; revised 2010
*''Was Jesus God?'', 2008
*''Mind, Brain and Free Will'', 2013

'''''The above list represents only a selection of Dr. Swinburne's writings, not a complete list.'''''

==References==
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Richard Swinburne

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'''Richard Swinburne''' (born 1934) is an English Christian philosopher and Emeritus professor of the philosophy of the Christian religion at [[Oxford University]]. He taught there from 1985 until 2002 before achieving Emeritus status.

His main research interests are the justification of the central claims of [[Christianity]] as well as all of the central issues of philosophy.<ref>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orie0087/</ref>

In his writings, Swinburne has defended the existence of God as well as substance dualism which holds that there exists an immaterial soul or mind for each individual human being. In his book ''Is There a God?'', Swinburne gives a form of the Teleological (Design) Argument for God's existence. He is also an '''open theist''', meaning that he believes that God is inside time and does not know the future with certainty.

==Education==
Swinburne was educated at Oxford where he earned a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1957. In 1959, he earned a B.Phil.<ref>http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=263</ref>

==Writings==

*"The Coherence of Theism", 1977; revised 1993
*''The Existence of God'', 1979; revised 2004
*''The Evolution of the Soul'', 1986
*''Is There a God?'', 1996; revised 2010
*''Was Jesus God?'', 2008
*''Mind, Brain and Free Will'', 2013

'''''The above list represents only a selection of Dr. Swinburne's writings, not a complete list.'''''

==References==
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David Bentley Hart

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'''David Bentley Hart''' (born 20 February 1965) is a prominent American theologian and philosopher and is visiting Professor at Providence College, having previously taught at the [[University of Virginia]], the [[University of St. Thomas]] ([[Minnesota]]), [[Duke University]], and [[Loyola College]].

He is the author of ''[[Atheist Delusions]]'' (2009), a "powerful antidote" to the misrepresentations of [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]], [[Christoper Hitchens|Hitchens]] et al.

Hart is an Eastern Orthodox Christian and does not believe that God is a person or a being, but rather, he believes that God is Being itself and is metaphysically simple. Many Christians, especially Evangelicals, tend to disagree with this view.

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'''Fr. Stylianos Frantzeskakis''' was a Greek priest from the island of [[Crete]]. In May 1941, German troops invaded Crete via air and sea. In response, Fr Frantzeskakis rang the church bell in the port town of Paleochora and subsequently marched north to the town of Kandanos with a group of volunteers where they confronted the German invaders with old rifles. They pinned down the German soldiers for two whole days.

It is not known what Fr. Frantzeskakis' fate was, but given the brutal revenge killings the Germans committed after the battle to the local population, it seems likely that he was killed.

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Stylianos Frantzeskakis

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Charles Suver

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Charles Suver

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Charles Suver

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'''Fr. Charles F. Suver, S.J.''' (1906 - 1993) was a [[Jesuit]] priest and military chaplain who is most well known for a relatively famous photograph of him giving Catholic Mass atop Mount Suribachi during the battle of [[Iwo Jima]] on February 23, 1945. <ref>http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930415&slug=1695978</ref>
===Naval Service===

Suver served as a chaplain in the [[U. S. Navy]] and was assigned to the 5th Service Battalion, 5th Marine Division. He landed at Green beach on Iwo Jima with his ministry team on February 19, 1945. <ref>http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2013/05/fr-charles-f-suver-sj-jesuit-of-iwo-jima.html</ref>

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Alister McGrath

2015-07-07T16:57:18Z

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'''Alister McGrath''' (born 23 January 1953) is a [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irish]] biologist and Christian apologist. He is a Professor of Historical Theology at [[Oxford]] University. He was a previous head of Wycliffe Hall, one of Oxford's religious Permanent Private Halls.

McGrath, a former [[atheist]], is one of the world's leading critics of [[Richard Dawkins]]. He published a critique of Dawkins' book ''[[The God Delusion]]'' titled ''The Dawkins Delusion?''. Another book of McGrath's is called ''The Twilight of Atheism'', which chronicles the fluctuation of atheism throughout history. He has also publicly debated Dawkins as well as other well-known atheist intellectuals, including Stephen Law, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens.

In 2013, McGrath's biography on the Christian intellectual [[C.S. Lewis]] was published.

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William F. Buckley, Jr.

2015-07-07T16:53:53Z

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[[Image:6436rtdhgf.jpg|right|thumb|William F. Buckley, Jr., on his long-running television show [[Firing Line]].]]
'''William Frank Buckley Jr.''' (New York City, November 24, 1925 - Stamford, February 27, 2008) was born in a devoutly [[Roman Catholic]] family. Buckley was a prominent [[conservative]] author and commentator, and the founder of the [[National Review]]. He was also host of [[Firing Line]], a talk show featured for years on the otherwise [[liberal]] public television. He was admired on both sides of the political spectrum for his seemingly limitless vocabulary, and his intellectual wit.

Buckley's political views did not represent the future of the conservative movement as much as its past, and he did not speak out much about the big social issues that would dominate the future of politics. For example, he was mostly silent about [[ERA]], the defining issue for the modern conservative movement. Buckley's views could be almost summed up in one word -- anti-collectivist -- as reflected by his book "Up From Liberalism" (1959):<ref>http://www.politico.com/blogs/joe-scarborough/2013/08/conservatism-defined-170716.html</ref>
{{cquote|I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.}}

==Life==
Son of an oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, Buckley was educated in an English preparatory school as a teenager. He studied Spanish in [[Mexico City]] (1943, UNAM) (Buckley's first language had been Spanish, having been raised by Mexican nannies). Buckley graduated from the Millbrook School in New York in 1943, and from Yale College in 1950. His first book exposed the failures of Yale College, "God and Man at Yale" (1951). It detailed what he saw as the collectivist and anti-Christian leanings of America's foremost school.

In 1955 Buckley founded ''The National Review'' (NR), a biweekly magazine of political opinion. [[Ronald Reagan]] was a longtime subscriber to National Review. Through the magazine he fostered the idea of a conservative movement.
[[Image:Wf-buckley.jpg|thumb|200px]]

Buckley belatedly supported [[intelligent design]], a halfway position for an intellectual not willing to admit that the [[theory of evolution]] is as much a liberal hoax as [[global warming]] is.

During [[World War II]] Buckley was in the U. S. Army, but was never deployed overseas. <ref>http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/qa-with-sam-tanenhaus-on-william-f-buckley/?_r=0</ref>

Buckley wrote over 50 books about history, politics and sailing, and a series of spy novels (which featured the fictitious Yale graduate Blackford Oakes) that were consistent best sellers.

{{quotebox|Buckley, doing it his way, became one of the most influential writers and journalists of the past century – in the august company of [[Walter Lippmann]], [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] and [[George Orwell]]. The latter two came to symbolize what was at stake in the spiritual and moral struggle against the [[totalitarian]] mentality. But Buckley spearheaded the counterrevolution in the West that emboldened [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]], [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] and [[John Paul II]] to confront and defeat the [[Soviet Empire]]. <ref>http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/05/introduction-to-crossing-swords/</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Even friendly biographers do not give him adequate credit in deconstructing liberalism ... Buckley did not elevate conservatism to a major political force simply because he was a charming guy, though that didn’t hurt; but because he laid bare with a penetrating logic the inconsistencies of liberal and leftist thought. <ref>http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/05/introduction-to-crossing-swords/</ref>}}

Buckley liked to go yachting, twice crossing the Atlantic himself, and playing the harpsichord. He married Patricia Alden Austin Taylor in 1950.

Buckley died of a [[heart attack]] in 2008.

== See Also ==
* [[Conservative links]]
* [[Young Americans for Freedom]]
* [[Libertarian|Libertarian values]] and [[Conservative values]] are the original American [[Patriot]] values
* [[Small town values]] of [[middle class]] [[Real America]]
* [[Family values]]: [[Family]]-[[Marriage]], [[Homeschooling]] teaching [[Virtue]] and Self-reliance
* [[Duty]]

===Contrast With===
* [[Liberal values]] and [[Liberalism]]: [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Public school values]] [[entitlement mentality]] [[Indoctrination]] of the [[Teacup Generation]] by [[Public schools in the United States]] and [[Common Core]]
* [[Teachers' unions]]: [[National Education Association]] and [[American Federation of Teachers]]
* [[Hollywood values]]: [[List of celebrities against Second Amendment]] - always [[Liberal]] [[Elitist]]s
* [[San Francisco values]] and the [[Politically correct]]: [[Diane Feinstein]], [[Nancy Pelosi]], [[Barbara Boxer]], [[Leland Yee]]
* [[Fashion industry values]]
* [[Professor values]]
* [[Obamunism]]: [[Obamanomics]] [[Economic planning]] of the [[Obama administration fiscal policy]], [[Obama administration monetary policy]], [[Obamacare]], [[Federal funding]] via [[Crony capitalism]] ([[Obama donor list]], [[Bailout]], [[Obama administration corporate bailouts]], [[Obamageddon]]), [[Deficit spending]] and the [[National debt]]
* [[John Maynard Keynes]] [[liberal]] [[Keynesian economics]] and [[Fabian Socialism|Fabian Socialist]] influence on [[Barack Obama]]
* [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare State]]-[[Nanny State]]-[[Police state|Police State]]: [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[Communist]]

==External Links==
* http://www.nationalreview.com

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.nationalreview.com/ National Review Online]
*[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23507 William F. Buckley Jr. on Conservatism: An Interview] Bill Steigerwald, [[Human Events]], 11/19/2007
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/media/27cnd-buckley.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82], [[New York Times]], 2/27/2008
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87235288 Father of Conservative Movement Dies]
*[http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/12/william-f-buckley-jr-conservative-icon Biography] by Lee Edwards, Ph.D.

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Alister McGrath

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