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2 unusual facts about Alister McGrath


A Scientific Theology

A Scientific Theology is a set of three books by Alister McGrath that explores the parallels between the working assumptions and methods of Christian theology and those of the natural sciences.

Alister McGrath

He spent the fall semester of 1990 as the Ezra Squire Tipple Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at the Divinity School of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.


Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Members of the Faraday Institute's Advisory Board include Brian Heap, R.J. Berry, Sarah Coakley, Martin Evans, John T. Houghton, Alister McGrath, John Polkinghorne, and Eric Priest.

Paleo-orthodoxy

Similar approaches can be found in the theology of Marva Dawn, a Lutheran; Alister McGrath, a Church of England Reformed evangelical; Andrew Purves, a Presbyterian; Dr. Timothy George (Baptist),and Christopher Hall, an Episcopalian.

Themelios

The journal has consistently attracted attention with articles by leading biblical scholars and theologians including Richard Bauckham, Larry Hurtado, I. Howard Marshall, N.T. Wright, Craig Blomberg, R.T. France, Simon Gathercole, D.A. Carson, and Alister McGrath.


see also

The Twilight of Atheism

Julian Baggini considers that "A book like Alister McGrath’s The Twilight of Atheism no longer looks perversely contrarian, but a fair reflection of social reality".