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|birth_place=Peoria, Illinois |school_tradition = Analytic Philosophy |main_interests = |influences = Al-Kindi, John Hick, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hendrik Lorentz, Alvin Plantinga, Quentin Smith, Gary Habermas |influenced = J. P. Moreland, Paul Copan, Michael Licona |religion = Christianity (Evangelicalism) |website = (reasonablefaith.org )}} William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American Christian apologist, analytic Christian philosopher, and theologian.〔Nathan Schneider, "The New Theist: How William Lane Craig became Christian philosophy's boldest apostle", ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', July 1, 2013, (article )〕 Craig's philosophical work focuses primarily on philosophy of religion, but also on metaphysics and philosophy of time. His theological interests are in historical Jesus studies and philosophical theology. He is known for his debates on the existence of God with public figures such as Christopher Hitchens〔(''Christianity Today'', Craig/Hitchens debate on existence of God )〕 and Lawrence Krauss.〔(Krauss debates Craig )〕 Craig established an online apologetics ministry, ReasonableFaith.org. His current research deals with divine aseity and the challenge posed by Platonist accounts of abstract objects. Craig is also an author of several books, including ''Reasonable Faith'', which began as a set of lectures for his apologetics classes. ==Life and career== Craig is the second of three children born to Mallory and Doris Craig in Peoria, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.city-data.com/city/East-Peoria-Illinois.html )〕 His father's work with the T. P. & W. railroad took the family to Keokuk, Iowa, until his transfer to the home office in East Peoria in 1960. While a student at East Peoria Community High School (1963–67)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reasonablefaith.org/debating )〕 Craig became a championship debater and public speaker, being named his senior year to the all-state debate team and winning the state championship in oratory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ihsa.org/SportsActivities/IndividualEvents/RecordsHistory.aspx?url=/data/ie/records/index.htm )〕 In September 1965, his junior year, he converted to Christianity,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.talbot.edu/faculty/profile/william_craig/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fervr.net/author/37132/ )〕 and after graduating from high school, attended Wheaton College, a Christian college,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.topchristiancolleges.org/top-ten.html )〕 majoring in communications. Craig graduated in 1971 and the following year married his wife Jan, whom he met on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ. In 2014, he was named alumnus of the year by Wheaton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wheaton.edu/Media-Center/News/2014/05/Dr-William-Lane-Craig-Named-Alumnus-of-the-Year )〕 In 1973 Craig entered the program in philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago, where he studied under Norman Geisler.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reasonablefaith.org/double-doctorates )〕 In 1975 Craig commenced doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Birmingham in England, writing on the cosmological argument under the direction of John Hick. Out of this study came his first book, ''The Kalam Cosmological Argument'' (1979), a defense of the argument he first encountered in Hackett's work. Craig was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in 1978 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to pursue research on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus under the direction of Wolfhart Pannenberg at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München in Germany. His studies in Munich led to a second doctorate, this one in theology,〔 awarded in 1984 with the publication of his doctoral thesis, "The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus during the Deist Controversy" (1985).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/what-is-the-meaning-of-failure-for-the-christian )〕 Craig joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1980, where he taught philosophy of religion for the next seven years. In 1982 Craig received an invitation to debate Kai Nielsen at the University of Calgary, Canada, on the question of God's existence. Craig has participated in debates on philosophical and theological questions with philosophers, scientists, and biblical scholars, including Antony Flew, E. M. Curley, Richard Taylor, Quentin Smith, Michael Tooley, Paul Draper, Shelly Kagan, Peter Millican, Paul Kurtz, Peter Atkins, Lawrence Krauss, Francisco Ayala, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Ray Hoover, Bart Ehrman, Gerd Lüdemann, Christopher Hitchens, Ray Bradley, and Sean Carroll. He has also engaged in debates on Islam, having engaged academic and Islamic scholar Shabir Ally, Jamal Badawi and South African Muslim apologist, Yusuf Ismail on the divinity of Christ. After a one-year stint at Westmont College on the outskirts of Santa Barbara,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/apologetics/craig-apologetics-videos.php )〕 Craig moved in 1987 with his wife and two young children back to Europe, where he pursued research for the next seven years as a visiting scholar at the Katholiecke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. Out of that period of research issued seven books, among them ''God, Time, and Eternity'' (2001). In 1994 Craig joined the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology in suburban Los Angeles as Research Professor of Philosophy, a position he currently holds.〔 Craig established an online apologetic ministry, ReasonableFaith.org.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reasonablefaith.org/about-reasonable-faith )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Lane Craig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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