William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. He and his wife Jan have two grown children.
At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.
He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. In 2016 Dr. Craig was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers.
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On Guard
0$15,21This concise guide is filled with illustrations, sidebars, and memorizable steps to help Christians stand their ground and defend their faith with reason and precision. In his engaging style, Dr. Craig offers four arguments for God’s existence, defends the historicity of Jesus’ personal claims and resurrection, addresses the problem of suffering, and shows why religious relativism doesn’t work. Along the way, he shares his story of following God’s call in his own life.
This one-stop, how-to-defend-your-faith manual will equip Christians to advance faith conversations deliberately, applying straightforward, cool-headed arguments. They will discover not just what they believe, but why they believe—and how being on guard with the truth has the power to change lives forever.
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The Atonement
0$8,45الكفَّارةيتناول كتاب ‘‘الكفَّارة’’ (The Atonement) العقيدة الشائكة عن الكفَّارة بإيجاز وسلاسة، وبأسلوب يجمعُ ما بين عدد من المجالات المعرفيَّة، حيث يستعين بالدراسات الكتابيَّة وتاريخ الكنيسة والفلسفة التحليليَّة.
يتألَّف الكتاب من ثلاثة أجزاء: يتناول الأوَّل الأساسَ الكتابيَّ لعقيدة الكفَّارة، وهو جانب من العقيدة لا يَلقى اهتمامًا جادًّا من الفلاسفة المسيحيِّين المعاصرين الذين يكتبون في الموضوع. ويركِّزُ الجزء الثاني على بعض النظريَّات الرئيسيَّة للكفَّارة التي ظهرت قبل العصر الحديث، بُغيَة تقديم شرحٍ دقيقٍ لها، وهي غالبًا ما أُسيءَ فهمُها. ويدافع الجزءُ الثالثُ عن نظريَّةٍ للكفَّارة متعدِّدة الأوجه، تتَّخذُ من البدليَّة العقابيَّة مركزًا لها، وتستند إلى أفكار من فلسفة القانون (Philosophy of Law).
وباستخدام أفكارٍ راسخةٍ في الفكر القانونيِّ، غالبًا ما يجري تجاهُلُها في المعالَجات الفلسفيَّة للكفَّارة، يحاول الكاتب أن يقدِّمَ شرحًا متَّسقًا من الناحية الفلسفيَّة لكفَّارة المسيح يرتبط ارتباطًا وثيقًا بعقيدة التبرير في الكتاب المقدَّس.
