Alister McGrath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alister McGrath

Northern Irish priest and academic

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1953

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Profession: writer, priest, chemist, educator, theologian, university teacher, church historian, biochemist, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alister Edgar McGrath (born 1953) is a Northern Irish theologian, priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual.
He currently holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of Divinity at Gresham College.
He was previously Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education at King's College London and Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture, Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford, and was principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, until 2005.
He is an Anglican priest.Aside from being a faculty member at Oxford, McGrath has also taught at Cambridge University and is a Teaching Fellow at Regent College.
McGrath holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford: a Doctor of Philosophy degree in molecular biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity degree in theology, and a Doctor of Letters degree in intellectual history. McGrath is noted for his work in historical theology, systematic theology, and the relationship between science and religion, as well as his writings on apologetics.
He is also known for his opposition to New Atheism and antireligionism and his advocacy of theological critical realism.
Among his best-known books are The Twilight of Atheism, The Dawkins Delusion?, Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and A Scientific Theology.
He is also the author of a number of popular textbooks on theology.