William Lane Craig Bio, Age, Family, Education, Wife, Children, Career, Nationality, Net Woth, Publications

 He was born in Peoria, Illinois on August 23, 1949.

William Lane Craig Family

Craig is the second of the three children born to Mallory and Doris Craig.

William Lane Craig Education

William went to East Peoria Community High School where he became a championship debater and public speaker from 1963 to 1967. In the year 1965 while still in high school he converted to Christianity. After graduating from high school attended Wheaton College majoring in communications and graduated in 1971. He later entered the program in Philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity school north of Chicago where he studied under Norman Geisler.

In the year 1975, he started doctoral studies in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England writing on the Cosmological Argument under the direction of John Hick.  He was awarded a doctorate in 1977`. 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 postdoctoral fellowship in 1978 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to pursue research on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus.

This was under the direction of Wolfhart Pannenberg at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München in Germany. His studies in Munich under Pannenberg’s supervision 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).

William Lane Craig Career

Craig joined the department 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, and has since then debated many philosophers, scientists, and biblical scholars.

After a one year stint at Westmont College on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. Out of that period of research issued seven books, among them God, Time, and Eternity. In 1994, Craig joined the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology in suburban Los Angeles as a Research Professor of Philosophy, a position he currently holds.

He went on to become a Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University in 2014. In 2016, Craig was named Alumnus of the Year by Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In 2017, Biola created a permanent faculty position and endowed chair, the William Lane Craig Endowed Chair in Philosophy, in honor of Craig’s academic contributions. Craig served as president of the Philosophy of Time Society from 1999 to 2006. He helped found the Evangelical Philosophical Society and served as its president from 1996 to 2005.

William Lane Craig Nationality