William Lane Craig

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,655x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,955x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,031x

4. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups

   · 2007 · cited 34,451x

5. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,752x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus’ offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin – except yourself.”
• “I truly wish with all my heart that universal salvation were true. But to pretend that people are not sinful and in need of salvation would be as cruel and deceptive as pretending that somebody was healthy even though you knew that he had a fatal disease for which you knew the cure.”
• “Heaven may not be a possible world when you take it in isolation by itself. It may be that the only way in which God could actualize a heaven of free creatures all worshiping Him and not falling into sin would be by having, so to speak, this run-up to it, this advance life during which there is a veil of decision-making in which some people choose for God and some people against God. Otherwise you don't know that heaven is an actualizable world. You have no way of knowing that possibility.”
• “Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.”
• “In general, Western culture is deeply post-Christian. It is the product of the Enlightenment, which introduced into European culture the leaven of secularism that has by now permeated Western society. While most of the original Enlightenment thinkers were themselves theists, the majority of Western intellectuals today no longer considers theological knowledge to be possible. The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.”
• “Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born

( 1949-08-23 ) August 23, 1949 (age 76) , Peoria, Illinois , US

Spouse

Jan Craig ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ) ​

Education

Wheaton College ( BA ) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ( MA , MA ) University of Birmingham ( PhD ) LMU Munich ( ThD )

Theses

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God: Historical and Critical Analyses (1977) The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (1984)

Doctoral advisor

John Hick (Birmingham), Wolfhart Pannenberg (Munich)

Other advisor

Norman Geisler

Discipline

Philosophy theology

School or tradition

Analytic philosophy Molinism neo-Apollinarianism Wesleyanism

Institutions

See list Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1980–1986) Westmont College (1986–1987) University of Louvain (1987–1994) Biola University (1996–2020, 2021–present) Houston Christian University (2014–2024)

Main interests

Philosophy of religion natural theology philosophy of time Christian apologetics systematic theology Apollinarism Reformed epistemology Cartesian dualism metaphysical libertarianism

Notable works

Reasonable Faith (1994)

Notable ideas

Kalam cosmological argument

Website

www .reasonablefaith .org

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official website

www.reasonablefaith.org

Image

William Lane Craig.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0