John Warwick Montgomery

John Warwick Montgomery is a lawyer, professor, Lutherian theologian and author. He is chiefly noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics -the branch of theology concerned with the defence and rational justification of Christianity.
He is director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He is also editor of the online *Journal Global Journal of Classical Theology. *

He was born in Warsaw, New York, USA on 18th October 1931.

John became a Christian in 1949 as an undergraduate majoring in the classics and philosophy at Cornell University.

He earned 10 degrees in multiple disciplines including philosophy, librarianship , theology and law. Ph.D, Th.D and LLD,.
( See ‘Education’ for detail)

In 1959/60 he served as principle librarian in the Divinity school’s library at the University of Chicago
He then served as Chairman of the Department of History at Wifrid Laurier University in Canada
In 1964 having completed his Th.D. he became Professor of church history at Trinity Evangelical School in Deerfield, Illinois ( 1964-74). While there he became a regular columnist with *Christianity Today * (1965-83).

He became involved within theological controversies with his denomination, the Lutheran church concerning Biblical inerrancy and higher criticism. He wrote 3 books opposing Liberal Christianity and radical theologies.

Since 1965 he has been an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod

His role as an apologist for Christianity extended to debates with atheists, ethicists and humanists.

In th e 1970s he began training in law with the twin aims of reintegrating Christian foundations into jurisprudence and to integrate insights from legal theory and doctrines of proof relevant to furthering Christian evidential apologetics

In 1970, after 2 years research, he wrote The Quest for Noah’s Ark

In 1980 he established the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California (now Trinity Law School. He was dean and professor there from 1980-89. He resigned under a cloud of controversy In 1991 became a Barrister-at- law in London. In 2009 passed the French bar examinations.

From 1995 to 2007 he was Professor in Law and Humanities at the University of Bedfordshire, .
From 2007 to 2014 he was Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at Patrick Henry College in Virginia USA.
He remains Emeritus professor at the University of Bedfordshire.

He now lives in France, England and the USA with his second wife Lanalee de Kant, a professional harpist.

He is considered to be one of the foremost living apologists for classical biblical Christianity.
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