Alister E. McGrath

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January 22, 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Religion & Spirituality, History

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Alister E. McGrath is a biochemist and Christian theologian born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and currently enjoys the Title of Distinction “Professor of Historical Theology” granted by the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books on theology and history, including In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture and The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. He lives in Oxford, England and lectures regularly in the U.S.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,030 ratings · 435 reviews · 122 distinct works

	The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath 3.24 avg rating — 411 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Christian Theology: An Introduction 3.91 avg rating — 264 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture 3.86 avg rating — 175 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution: A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First 3.84 avg rating — 130 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World 3.50 avg rating — 121 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Historical Theology 3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chosen Ones: Book One of the Aedyn Chronicles 2.92 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Christian Theology Reader 3.98 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Dawkin's God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life 3.45 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.”
― Alister E. McGrath

tags: belief , intelligence

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“Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.”
― Alister E. McGrath

tags: evidence , faith , reason

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“The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.”
― Alister E. McGrath, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World

tags: belief , god , proof , theology

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