Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Just a reminder that William Lane Craig will be speak­ing tomor­row night (Sat­ur­day Feb 22) on “The His­toric­ity of the Res­ur­rec­tion.” (7pm in TC Sequoia Lec­ture Hall 200).

He spoke tonight at Berke­ley on “The Exis­tence of God” and packed Wheeler Audi­to­rium out–by my esti­mate at least 1,500 stu­dents showed up for a facil­ity that could acco­mo­date around 750.

The moral: be sure to arrive early!

I urge you to invite any friends who are wrestling with mak­ing or main­tain­ing a com­mit­ment to Jesus–His res­ur­rec­tion is the crux of the mat­ter, and Dr. Craig is one of the most effec­tive explain­ers of the Chris­t­ian faith on the planet.

From his bio: Dr. William Lane Craig is Research Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy at Tal­bot School of The­ol­ogy, Biola Uni­ver­sity in La Mirada, CA. With two doc­tor­ates — one in phi­los­o­phy under the emi­nent philoso­pher of reli­gion John Hick and one in the­ol­ogy under arguably the great­est liv­ing Ger­man the­olo­gian Wolfhart Pan­nen­berg — Dr. Craig is widely con­sid­ered to be a lead­ing fig­ure in the phi­los­o­phy of reli­gion and the pre­mier evan­gel­i­cal Chris­t­ian apol­o­gist. He has par­tic­i­pated in dozens of debates on the exis­tence of God, the foun­da­tions of moral­ity, and the con­tentious claim that sal­va­tion is in Christ alone. Fur­ther­more, Dr. Craig has over 175 pub­li­ca­tions appear­ing in the best aca­d­e­mic and top pop­u­lar jour­nals and presses. His diverse research inter­ests include the phi­los­o­phy of reli­gion, the phi­los­o­phy of time, and New Tes­ta­ment stud­ies. He is the cur­rent pres­i­dent of the Evan­gel­i­cal Philo­soph­i­cal Soci­ety and the Phi­los­o­phy of Time Society.

Chi Alpha is one of many Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tions on cam­pus co-sponsoring this event: the full list is Asian Bap­tist Stu­dent Koinonia, Car­di­nal Life, Cam­pus Cru­sade, Chi­nese Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship, Chi Alpha, Fel­low­ship in Christ, Har­vest, Inter­Var­sity, IVGrad, ReJOYce, and United In Christ.