William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig
Born	(1949-08-23) August 23, 1949 (age 67) Peoria, Illinois
Education	Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; 1975) University of Birmingham (Ph.D. 1977) University of Munich (D.Theol. 1984)
Website	reasonablefaith.org
Era	20th-century philosophy 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Philosophy
Institutions	Talbot School of Theology Houston Baptist University University of Louvain Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Main interests	Philosophy of religion Natural theology Philosophy of time Systematic theology Christian apologetics
Influences Al-Ghazali, Al-Kindi, John Hick, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hendrik Lorentz, Alvin Plantinga, Quentin Smith, Gary Habermas
Influenced J. P. Moreland, Paul Copan, Michael Licona

William Lane Craig (/kreɪɡ/; born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian theologian, Christian apologist and historian. He holds faculty positions at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and Houston Baptist University.

Craig is best known for his development and defense of the Kalam cosmological argument, for the existence of God. He also focused in his published work on a historical argument for the Resurrection of Jesus. His research on divine aseity and Platonism culminated with his book God Over All. He is currently researching the Doctrine of the Atonement.

He is known to a lay audience for his debates on the existence of God with public figures such as Christopher Hitchens and Lawrence M. Krauss. Craig established and runs the online apologetics ministry, ReasonableFaith.org. He is also an author of several books, including Reasonable Faith, which began as a set of lectures for his apologetics classes.

Craig is the second of three children born to Mallory and Doris Craig in Peoria, Illinois. His father's work with the T. P. & W. railroad took the family to Keokuk, Iowa, until his transfer to the home office in East Peoria in 1960. While a student at East Peoria Community High School (1963–67) Craig became a championship debater and public speaker, being named his senior year to the all-state debate team and winning the state championship in oratory. In September 1965, his junior year, he converted to Christianity, and after graduating from high school, attended Wheaton College, a Christian college, majoring in communications. Craig graduated in 1971 and the following year married his wife Jan, whom he met on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ. In 2014, he was named alumnus of the year by Wheaton.