Alister McGrath

Alister Edgar McGrath (born January 23, 1953; currently 73 years old) is a Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, and intellectual historian widely recognized for his scholarship at the intersection of science and religion. Born in Belfast, McGrath initially trained in the natural sciences, earning an undergraduate degree in chemistry and a doctorate in molecular biophysics from the University of Oxford before redirecting his academic focus to Christian theology. He went on to hold prominent academic posts, including the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science and Religion at Oxford and the Chair in Theology, Ministry, and Education at King's College London. A prolific author of seminal theological textbooks and biographies of figures like C.S. Lewis and John Calvin, McGrath is also known as a leading Christian apologist who has engaged in public debates against the "New Atheism" movement, most notably penning The Dawkins Delusion?. He is currently alive and retired from full-time academia.