William Lane Craig

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. In 1987 he and his family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.

Craig was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers. He founded Reasonable Faith (www.reasonablefaith.org) which contains hundreds of article answering questions of believers and skeptics.  He is also a frequent speaker and debater on secular university campuses. Many of his debates with skeptics (including Christopher Hitchens, John Dominic Crossan, Anthony Flew, Robert Shapiro, Quentin Smith and Kai Nielsen) can be viewed on his website (reasonablefaith.org), YouTube.com or Facebook.

Craig has authored or edited over forty 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; God, Time and Eternity, as well as nearly 200 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.