William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig is a renowned Christian scholar, philosopher, and apologist. He currently holds the position of Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology in La Miranda, California.
Born 23 August 1949, at age sixteen W. L. Craig pledged his life to Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior. Thus began a career, indeed a calling, dedicated to the Gospel. Craig completed a B. A. at Wheaton College in 1971, and two M. A. degrees at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1974 and 1975 (in the philosophy of religion and church history), and a Ph. D. from the University of Birmingham (England) in 1977. Craig also received a D. Theol. from the University of Munich in 1984, where he studied under the famous Wolfhart Pannenberg.
Craig is known for his Christian apologetics, specifically concerning the Resurrection, the existence of God, and theocentric ethics. Craig's case for the existence of God usually involves five central arguments:
- the cosmological argument, which includes Craig's specially-developed Kalam argument
- the argument from fine-tuning
- the moral argument
- the argument from the historicity of the Resurrection
- the argument from personal experience
In the estimation of some atheists, Craig has won all or nearly all of his debates with atheists and is one of the most impressive debaters currently alive.[1]