BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The recent parade of best-selling books by atheists has been followed, not surprisingly, by rebuttals from believers and now formal debates between the two. We have excerpts ...

Alister McGrath, professor of historical theology at Oxford, began his professional career in the natural sciences (molecular biophysics). That scientific training has served him well, especially in ...

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Alister McGrath, one of modern Christianity's foremost theological voices, is writing children's books. The Aedyn Chronicles are a series in which two British siblings, Peter and Julia, are magically ...

Oxford theologian McGrath, whose recent In the Beginning chronicled the history of the King James Bible, offers here a personal look at his own spiritual journey. He admits that his own early attempts ...

In his new book, The Big Question: Why We Can't Stop Talking About Science, Faith and God, Alister McGrath argues that "we need more than science to satisfy our deep yearnings and intuitions." That ...

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) assumed that he would be forgotten within five years of his death. While he may have been a great Christian apologist, Lewis was clearly no prophet: Children are still ...

The Oxford scholar reflects on the interface between faith and science and how narratives draw us toward belief. The relationship between Christianity and science is hotly debated, and both believers ...