Longing for a More Beautiful Story: Lewis and the Gospel in Today’s World

Professor Alister McGrath is the very definition of a polymath, having distinguished himself in the areas of theology, science, Church history, and biography. The author of more than fifty books for both popular and academic audiences, his works have been translated into over twenty languages. McGrath has debated the likes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and in 2009 he was chosen to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen. An avid C. S. Lewis buff and researcher, he is the author of several books on Lewis including the acclaimed 2013 C.S. Lewis, a Biography, and its companion volume, “The Intellectual world of C.S. Lewis.” McGrath holds three doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, a D.Phil in Biophysics, a D.D. for research in historical and systematic theology, and a Doctor of Letters degree in intellectual history. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he has held teaching posts at King’s College, London, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, and he was the Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, the Church of England’s premier evangelical training college for members of the clergy. In addition to all of his other accomplishments, he is also a priest in the Church of England, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, the president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics, and he presently serves as the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford.