Revd Prof Alister McGrath FRSA
Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom
Biography
Alister McGrath was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1953. After specializing in mathematics and sciences at high school, he was awarded a scholarship to study Chemistry at Oxford University in 1971. After taking First Class Honours in Chemistry in 1975, with a specialization in quantum theory, he remained at Oxford for further research in molecular biophysics under the supervision of Professor George K. Radda FRS, gaining his DPhil in 1978. At the same time, he studied for the Oxford University Final Honour School of Theology, and was awarded First Class Honours in 1978. He then transferred to Cambridge University, to take up the Naden Studentship in Divinity at St John's College. He returned to Oxford in 1983, and was awarded a personal chair in theology in 1999.
In 2006, he moved to King's College London as Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education, and returned to Oxford in April 2014 as the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion. In addition to his doctorate in natural sciences, McGrath holds two further earned doctorates from Oxford University: the Doctor of Divinity degree, awarded in 2001 for work in historical and systematic theology, and the Doctor of Letters degree, awarded in 2013 for work in science and religion. He has delivered the Bampton Lectures at Oxford University, the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, and the Hulsean Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was elected as Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London for the period 2015-18. The responsibilities of this chair, founded in 1597, are to provide six public lectures in divinity annually in the City of London.
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Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
History of Science, Naturalism, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics
Website
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/
Publications
The Open Secret: Towards the Renewal of Natural Theology,
Blackwells 2008
The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine,
SPCK 2007
The Order of Things: Explorations in Scientific Theology,
Blackwells 2006
The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology,
Continuum 2004
Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life,
Blackwells 2004
A Scientific Theology: 3 - Theory,
Continuum 2003
A Scientific Theology: 2 - Reality,
Continuum 2002
A Scientific Theology: 1 - Nature,
Continuum 2001
The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion,
Blackwells 1998
A Fine-Tuned Universe? The Quest for God in Science and Theology.
Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press 2009
Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
Inventing the Universe: Why We Can't Stop Talking About Science, Faith and God.
Hodder & Stoughton 2015
Enriching our Vision of Reality: Theology and the Natural Sciences in Dialogue
SPCK, London 2016
Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal
Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Re-Imagining Nature: The Promise of Christian Natural Theology
Wiley-Blackwell 2016
