Alister mcgrath christian history and biography

Alister McGrath is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University.

Alister mcgrath christian history and biography

A biophysicist and theologian, he writes regularly on issues such as Christian thought and the ‘new atheism’ and has been a strong critic of the atheist scientist Richard Dawkins. He passionately believes science and Christianity complement rather than conflict with each other.

Finding faith

Alister McGrath was raised in a church-going family in Northern Ireland in the 1950s but had no personal faith.

He became an atheist in his mid-teens and was drawn towards Marxism. But encounters with what he calls ‘articulate Christians’ at university began to weaken his stance: ‘I began to realise that I’d misunderstood what Christianity was,’ he says.

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‘I had no idea that it was really about a personal relationship with Christ. Discovering that changed things in a very big way. I discovered not simply that Christianity was true, but also that it was real. It wa