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President - Reverend Professor Alister McGrath PDF Print E-mail

Alister McGrathAlister McGrath holds the Chair in Theology Education at King's College, London. He is also President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA) and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. For many years, Professor McGrath was Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. He holds first class honours degrees in both Chemistry and Theology from Oxford University and was awarded an Oxford DPhil for his research in the natural sciences. His many writings include his acclaimed book on apologetics, Bridge Building, and his internationally popular Christian Theology: An Introduction. He has a special interest in atheism, especially evident in his landmark books Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life, The Dawkins Delusion? and The Twilight of Atheism.

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Senior Research Fellow - Dr Ravi Zacharias PDF Print E-mail

Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias is President of RZIM and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, and has been conferred a Doctor of Divinity degree from both Houghton College and Tyndale College and Seminary, Toronto, and a Doctor of Laws degree from Ashbury College, Kentucky. Dr Zacharias has spoken in over fifty countries and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford. He has addressed the writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the President cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Centre for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. He has given the main address at the National Day of Prayer in Washington, D.C., and has also spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York. Dr Zacharias has written many books, including the Gold Medallion winner, Can Man Live Without God. His weekly radio programme, 'Let My People Think' is broadcast over 1500 stations worldwide.

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Director - Michael Ramsden PDF Print E-mail
Michael RamsdenMichael Ramsden has been European Director of RZIM Zacharias Trust since its foundation in 1997 and is Joint Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is also Lecturer in Christian Apologetics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Michael Ramsden was brought up in the Middle East and later moved to England where he worked for the Lord Chancellor's Department investing funds. While doing research at Sheffield University he taught Moral Philosophy and lectured for the International Seminar on Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg. Michael speaks to a wide variety of audiences worldwide and is involved in a number of initiatives to equip and train emerging leaders and evangelists throughout Europe. He has contributed to the book Preach the Word! and Beyond Opinion and has written a series of articles for Idea magazine, giving an evangelical response to some of today's most challenging issues.
 
Curriculum Director - Amy Orr-Ewing PDF Print E-mail

Amy Orr-EwingAmy Orr-Ewing is Director of Programmes for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and Training Director for RZIM Zacharias Trust. She gained a first class degree in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University, before receiving a Masters degree in Theology at King’s College, London. Amy has written two books exploring key questions in apologetics: Why Trust the Bible? (published under the title Is the Bible Intolerant? in North America) which was shortlisted for the 2006 UK Christian Book Awards, and But Is It Real? (USA title: Is Believing in God Irrational). She has contributed to the books Beyond Opinion, God and the Generations and Worth Knowing: Wisdom for Women. Amy speaks and lectures on Christian Apologetics worldwide, at events such as Keswick Convention, and the European Leadership Forum, Hungary.

 

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Adjunct Professor - Professor John Lennox PDF Print E-mail

John LennoxJohn Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, Fellow in the Philosophy of Science at Green College, Oxford. He studied at Cambridge from which he holds the degrees of MA and PhD and was subsequently Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Wales where he was awarded a DSc. He also holds an MA in Bioethics. Professor Lennox is interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology and has lectured and written many articles and several books on both mathematics and Christian apologetics. He has debated a number of the world's leading atheists including Christopher Hitchens at the Edinburgh Festival (2008), and Richard Dawkins in both Alabama, USA and Oxford, England. His books include God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (co-authored with David Gooding). Professor Lennox's teaching for the OCCA includes material on Science and Religion, New Atheism and Ethics.

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Chaplain and Evangelist - Revd Canon Dr Michael Green PDF Print E-mail
Revd Canon Dr Michael GreenMichael Green is Chaplain to the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and teaches the Evangelism module. He is also Director of the Good News Initiative of the Anglican Communion Network in the USA. Dr Green widely known and respected in the UK, in particular for his ministry of reaching non-Christians and encouraging Christians in their evangelism. For many years he was a Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford where he taught Evangelism, Apologetics and some New Testament Studies. Most recently, he has been helping to grow a start-up Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, but returned to Oxford in 2008 to invest his time in the OCCA. Dr Green's previous experiences include being Principal of St John's College, Nottingham; Rector of St Aldate's Church, Oxford; Professor of Evangelism at Regent College, Vancouver; and Advisor to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on Evangelism. His recently published works include The Books the Church Suppressed, a repudiation of the Coptic Gospels on which the Da Vinci Code relied, I'd like to believe, but... and You can't be serious!
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Academic Tutor - Tom Price PDF Print E-mail

Tom PriceTom Price is an Academic Tutor at the OCCA, Associate speaker of the RZIM Zacharias Trust, and an independent itinerant evangelist/apologist. He studied Philosophy at university and later completed an MA in Christian Apologetics. Before studying for his Masters, Tom worked for the University and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) as the founding editor of their apologetics website bethinking.org Currently, as well as his work with the OCCA, Tom is also very involved with Damaris - an educational charity that seeks to help people across the world explore spiritual and moral issues underlying their contemporary culture. He enjoys spending time with those who are asking difficult questions about God, philosophy, life, love, and work.

 
Academic Tutor - Dr Sharon Dirckx PDF Print E-mail
Sharon DirckxSharon is a scientist with a PhD in brain imaging from Cambridge University who has spent time working in industry in Switzerland and academia in the UK and USA.  She graduated from the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics in 2005 where she completed the One-Year Certificate. Until recently her time was divided between scientific research in functional MRI of the human brain, and evangelism and apologetics ministry in a variety of different settings including schools, universities and prison. Her passion is to unashamedly communicate the gospel in a culturally relevant way and to mentor and train others to do the same.
 
Associate Fellow of the OCCA - Stuart McAllister PDF Print E-mail
Stuart McAllisterStuart McAllister is an international apologist with RZIM, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. Formerly, he worked with Operation Mobilisation before becoming General Secretary for the European Evangelical Alliance. Stuart McAllister developed an evangelistic mobilisation called 'Love Europe' that sent several thousand team members across Europe. He joined the staff of RZIM in 1998, directing their training programme, which has included teaching graduate level courses on apologetics at Alliance Theological Society for the past six years.Stuart is particularly interested in postmodernism and globalisation and has contributed to the book Beyond Opinion.
 
Associate Fellow of the OCCA - L.T. Jeyachandran PDF Print E-mail
LT JeyachandranL.T. Jeyachandran graduated from PSG College of Technology, affiliated with the University of Madras (Chennai), and later received a Master of Technology degree in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Mr Jeyachandran worked in India for 28 years as a Senior Civil Engineer with the Central (Federal) Government, before joining RZIM India in 1993 as Director of Ministries. He is now Executive Director of RZIM Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore, and is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He speaks internationally on Evangelism and Apologetics, his specialist areas of teaching being Eastern Religions and Doctrine of the Trinity. He has contributed to the book Who Made God? (ed. Zacharias and Geisler) and Beyond Opinion.
 

"  My time at Wycliffe proved to be life changing and life directing. Perhaps most profound for me was finding my calling. I learned that not only is evangelism a way of life but some are called to do it full time as their ministry. The unique setting of Oxford allowed me the opportunity to study apologetics during the day at Wycliffe and then go into the wider University and try out the arguments with non-Christian students at night. I saw many come to know Christ through hours of conversation. Needless to say, the experience of the Evangelism and Apologetics course prepared me for my current work... I am truly indebted to the Wycliffe training for equipping me in evangelism in order to equip others.   "

Carrie Boren, Missioner for Evangelism for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas