Alister E. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is author of many books, including A Scientific Theology,The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine.n
In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible
Speaker(s): Alister McGrath
Date: 2001
Length: 88 min
Product ID: RGDL3130
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In this lecture, given as part of the Summer Evening Public Lectures at Regent College on 2001, McGrath seeks to explain how the King James Version of the Bible came to being, why was it so important, and also to help understand how it was a massive impact in the shaping of both the English language, and the way Christians think.
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