William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher

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, philosophical theologian

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, and Christian apologist

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. He is known for his work on the philosophy of time and the philosophy of religion, specifically the existence of God and the defense of Christian theism. He has made major contributions to the philosophy of religion

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 and his defense of the Kalām cosmological argument

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 is the most widely discussed argument for the existence of God in contemporary Western philosophy. He has authored or edited over 30 books including The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology (co-authored with Quentin Smith

Quentin Smith

Quentin Persifor Smith is an American contemporary philosopher, scholar and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has worked in the philosophy of time, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics and philosophy of religion...

, 1993), Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time (2001), and Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity (co-edited with Quentin Smith, 2007).
Craig received a Bachelor of Arts

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 degree in communications from Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1971 and two summa cum laude master's degree

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s from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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 in Deerfield, Illinois

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, in 1975, in philosophy of religion

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 and ecclesiastical history

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