The Stob Lectures • Dr. William Lane Craig
Dr. William Lane Craig

Dr. William Lane Craig

November 9 & 10, 2004
7:30 p.m., Seminary Auditorium

Dr. Craig's lectures will be published by Eerdmans Publsihing Company in 2006 or 2007.
Lecture Broadcasts

Nov. 9: Christian Apologetics — Who Needs It?

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Nov. 10: Advice to Christian Apologists

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Lecture Abstracts

Christian Apologetics — Who Needs It?
Is the practice of Christian apologetics necessary? The question is not as simple as it first appears. Necessary for whom? And for what? This lecture will explore the aims and fruit of Christian apologetics with a view toward answering these questions, as well as assessing the usefulness of this discipline for Christians in contemporary Western society.

Advice to Christian Apologists
Suppose someone feels a call to engage in Christian apologetics or even to become vocationally a Christian apologist. What positive steps should such a person take and what pitfalls should he or she look out for? This lecture seeks to both encourage and admonish those who embark upon so fearful a task.
 
About the Lecturer:
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology (La Mirada, California). At the age of sixteen, Dr. Craig 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). He has written extensively on the cosmological argument, Christian apologetics, divine omniscience and divine eternity. His work has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Dr. Craig lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children.