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Alister McGrath, a Christian theologian, has also commented critically on Dawkins ' analysis, suggesting that " memes have no place in serious scientific reflection ", that there is strong evidence that such ideas are not spread by random processes, but by deliberate intentional actions, that " evolution " of ideas is more Lamarckian than Darwinian, and that there is no evidence ( and certainly none in the article ) that epidemiological models usefully explain the spread of religious ideas.
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* McGrath, Alister E. Christianity: An Introduction.
* McGrath, Alister E. Historical Theology.
According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.
In The Dawkins Delusion ?, Christian theologian Alister McGrath and his wife, psychologist Joanna Collicutt McGrath, compare Richard Dawkins ' " total dogmatic conviction of correctness " to " a religious fundamentalism which refuses to allow its ideas to be examined or challenged.
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* Professor Alister McGrath, Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College London
* Alister McGrath, Christian apologist and theologian
In 1996 Wycliffe Hall became a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, under the leadership of Professor Alister McGrath.
* Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, book by Alister McGrath
* Alister McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification ( Cambridge, 1998 ) ISBN 0-521-62481-9
Alister McGrath and Wentzel van Huyssteen ( the latter of Princeton Theological Seminary ) are recent contributors to this strand.
* 2009 Alister McGrath A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, ISBN 978-0-664-23310-5
Oxford theologian Alister McGrath has noted that " all medieval theology is ‘ Augustinian ’ to a greater or lesser extent.
* Christian Theology Reader by Alister McGrath.
* Christian Theology: An Introduction by Alister McGrath.
The situation regarding the etymology has been summed up by Alister McGrath: "' Ecclesiology ' is a term that has changed its meaning in recent theology.
Alister McGrath stated that many of the Jewish Christians were fully faithful religious Jews, only differing in their acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah.
* McGrath, Alister E. Christianity: An Introduction.
* Alister McGrath, In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible, New York: Doubleday, 2001.
Alister McGrath, former Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, asserts that the 1st century " Jewish Christians " were totally faithful religious Jews.
* Alister McGrath ( born 1953 ), Anglican theologian
He has considered aspects of apologetic methodology and strategy in his co-authored work with Alister McGrath.
* Springboard for Faith ( with Alister McGrath ), Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993.
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In " The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought " published in 1995, Alister McGrath associated PDI with the shepherding movement and described it as having " informal links with Bryn Jones ," the UK house church leader.
Alister Edgar McGrath ( born 23 January 1953 ) is an Irish theologian, priest, intellectual historian and Christian apologist, currently Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education at Kings College London and Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture.
Christian theologian Alister McGrath writes that there are good reasons to suggest that a " personal god " is integral to the Christian outlook, but that one has to understand it is an analogy.
* McGrath, Alister E. Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification.
In his textbook Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister E. McGrath makes note of Forsyth's Justification of God ( 1916 ).
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Yoong married Arriana Teoh, who was Miss Malaysia World 1997 in 2002 and has a son, Alister, born in 2003.
Yoong married former Miss Malaysia Arriana Teoh in 2002 and has a son named Alister who was born on 10 January 2003 weighing in at 3. 1 kg and 52. 5 cm tall.
Coddington has also had a high amount of media interest in her personal life — early in 2004 journalists widely canvassed the financial problems of Alister Taylor, her partner ( and her subsequent split from him ), and later the same year, the media reported Coddington's distress about attention received from Roger Kerr, the late executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable.
Theologian and molecular biophysicist Alister McGrath has a number of criticisms of the Intelligent design movement, stating that " those who adopt this approach make Christianity deeply ... vulnerable to scientific progress " and defining it as just another " god-of-the-gaps " theory.
When they return to camp a short time later, the world believes that Alister Cullen is alive and Camber MacRorie has died.
Then Wendy has an affair with an American, but her boyfriend Alister makes a surprise visit and William pretends that the American is actually his lover.
* Torrance ’ s thinking about the theology of nature has influenced Alister McGrath's approach to the subject of natural theology.
Garforth Golf Club has a course designed by Alister MacKenzie.
Sir Alister was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress In Religion in 1985 and the Centre has since received a grant from the Templeton Foundation for the computerisation of the archives.
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" Alister McGrath has responded by arguing that " memes have no place in serious scientific reflection ", that there is strong evidence that such ideas are not spread by random processes, but by deliberate intentional actions, that " evolution " of ideas is more Lamarckian than Darwinian, and that there is no evidence ( and certainly none in the essay ) that epidemiological models usefully explain the spread of religious ideas.
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Millbrae is also the home of Green Hills Country Club which was designed by famed golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie ( who designed other noteworthy courses such as Augusta National, Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, Pasatiempo, and many more ).
A Flock of Seagulls ( also known as Flock of Seagulls ) are an English New Wave band originally formed in Liverpool by brothers Michael " Mike " Score ( keyboards, vocals ) and Alister " Ali " James Score ( drums ), with Francis Lee ( Frank ) Maudsley ( bass ) and Paul Reynolds ( guitar ).
Fraser is the daughter of Rose, a college lecturer and nurse, and Alister Fraser, a scriptwriter who also worked in business.
He also started a program to second students from the Army and Navy, including graduates of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to bolster officer numbers ; candidates reaped by this scheme included future Air Force chiefs John McCauley, Frederick Scherger, Valston Hancock and Alister Murdoch, along with other senior identities such as Joe Hewitt and Frank Bladin.
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