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Os Guinness

English author and social critic

Ian Oswald Guinness (born September 30, ) is an English author, theologian and social critic now based in Fairfax County, Virginia; he has lived in the United States since

Early life and education

Born on 30 September in Hsiang Cheng, China, to medical missionaries working there,[1] Guinness is of Irish descent and the great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer.[2] He returned to England in for secondary school and eventual college.[3]

Guinness received a Bachelor of Divinity degree (honours) from the University of London in and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oriel College, Oxford, in , where he studied under Peter L.

Berger.[4] According to his website, Os has written or edited more than 30 books that offer insight into current cultural, political, and social contexts.[citation needed]

Career

In the late s, Guinness was a leader at the L'Abri community in Switzerland and, after Oxford, a freelance reporter for the BBC.[when?][5] He wrote his first book, The Dust of Death, in ; John Frame called it "a wonderfully erudite and persuasive critique of the western culture of the late s from a thoughtful, balanced Christian perspective."[6]

From to , Guinness served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation[when?] and was the leading drafter of the Williamsburg Charter, a bicentennial clarification and reaffirmation of the religious liberty clauses of the first amendment.[third-party source needed] He also co-authored the public school curriculum "Living With Our Deepest Differences".[7]

In , along with Alonzo McDonald, he founded the Trinity Forum and served as Senior Fellow until [8][9][10] Since then he has been a Senior Fellow with the EastWest Institute in New York, and is currently a Senior Fellow with the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics.[11]

He was the primary drafter of The Global Charter of Conscience, published at the European Union Parliament in Brussels in June

Personal life

Guinness currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his wife Jenny.

They have one son.[4]

An Anglican, he attended the Episcopal Church, but left, finding it too theologically liberal, in [12] He currently attends The Falls Church, in the Anglican Church in North America. He was one of the speakers at the Anglican Church in North America Assembly in June [13]

Guinness is named after Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher Oswald Chambers.[14]

Bibliography

Guinness has written or edited more than 30 books.[15] The following are a subset of the books written and edited between and present, in chronological order.

Authored books

  • &#;&#; (), The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & How to Resolve It, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), The Gravedigger File, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press
  • &#;&#; (), The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith, New York: Macmillan/Free Press.
  • &#;&#; (), Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#; (), The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever, Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
  • &#;&#; (), Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#; (), God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt, Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
  • &#;&#; (), The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, Nashville, TN: HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson.
  • &#;&#; (), Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#; (), Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype and Spin, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#; (), Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress.
  • &#;&#; (), The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress.
  • &#;&#; (), Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life, Colorado Springs, CO: PRH/WaterBrook & Multnomah.
  • &#;&#; (), Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#; (), Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins/HarperOne, retrieved 21 December .
  • &#;&#; (), The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins/HarperOne.
  • &#;&#; (), The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church, Ada, MI: Baker/Regal.
  • &#;&#; (), A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, archived from the original on 22 December , retrieved 18 December .
  • &#;&#; (), The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, archived from the original on 10 February , retrieved 18 December .
  • &#;&#; (), Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, archived from the original on 22 December , retrieved 14 August .
  • &#;&#; (), Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), Impossible People, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • &#;&#; (), The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Edited works

  • &#;&#;, ed.

    Os guinness Michael Kelley - January 22, Sometimes following God means taking unexpected routes. So at Oxford I added the tool of the sociology of knowledge in order to be able to analyze the modern world. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.

    (), Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

  • &#;&#;, ed. (), No God but God, Chicago: Moody Press.
  • &#;&#;, ed. (), Invitation to the Classics, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#;, ed. (), Unriddling our Times, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • &#;&#;, ed.

    (), When No One Sees: Character in an Age of Image, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress

  • &#;&#;, ed.

    Os guinness biography channel Guinness has also been involved in various think tanks discussing political and social questions that affect the church today. That is why our chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Small things in our culture inform us more than we think. References [ edit ].

    (), Doing Well and Doing Good, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.

  • &#;&#;, ed. (), Entrepreneurs of Life, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.
  • &#;&#;, ed. (), The Journey, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.

References

  1. ^RZIM Staff [Guinness, Os] (21 December ).

    "Os Guinness".

    Os guinness quotes Bible Dictionaries. He spent the rest of his upbringing in England, eventually studying at Oxford. To learn more about Os, visit osguinness. January 22,

    . Norcross, GA: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). Archived from the original(organisational autobio) on 3 April Retrieved 21 December

  2. ^"Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw - You Say You Want a Revolution? &#; Os Guinness".
  3. ^Tong, Steve (12 August ). "Being salty in a secular world: An interview with Os Guinness - Australian Church Record".

    Os Guinness: The watch meant not just the ability to measure time in small increments but a shift in how we thought about time and priorities. Christianity can have a sense of humor. But there was cannibalism and people selling their children for an evening meal. Guinness reported in an interview with Albert Mohler that he became a Christian after 18 months of studying Christian and secular authors to help him consider his beliefs.

    Retrieved 14 November

  4. ^ abGuinness, Os (February ). "Towards a reappraisal of Christian apologetics&#;: Peter L. Berger's sociology of knowledge as the sociological prolegomenon to Christian apologetics"(University of Oxford DPhil thesis). . Retrieved 21 June [dead link&#;]
  5. ^Edgar, William (), "Francis Schaeffer and the Public Square", in Budziszewski, J (ed.), Evangelicals in the Public Square, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, p.&#;.
  6. ^Frame, John ().

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    12. "Review of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction". Westminster Theological Journal. 46 (2): – Retrieved 11 November

  12. ^"Living With Our Deepest Differences"(PDF). Retrieved 26 September
  13. ^Loconte, Joe (14 September ).

    About Os Please help by adding reliable sources. So I owe Francis Schaeffer a huge and unpayable debt. November 18, God wanted you to be.

    "The Case for Converting Kings". Christianity Today. Retrieved 21 December

  14. ^The article at The Trinity Forum states, unsourced, that he founded the organization with American businessman and philanthropist Alonzo L. McDonald, but also states he founded it with business and other leaders, so information on the matter of the founding is discrepant and so imprecise.
  15. ^TTF Staff [Guinness, Os] (21 December ).

    "Os Guinness"(organisational autobio). . Retrieved 21 December

  16. ^OCCA Staff (21 December ).

  17. Os Guinness
  19. 10 Lessons from Christian Thinker Os Guinness about Faith and ...

    20. "What is the OCCA?". . Oxford, ENG: Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA). Retrieved 21 December

  20. ^Why We Left the Episcopal Church, By the Rev. John Yates and Os Guinness, 8 January , The Washington Post
  21. ^Assembly , ACNA Official Website
  22. ^“Pharaoh vs.

    God - Who Will You Choose? Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 1”, Jordan B Peterson, YouTube

  23. ^"Os Guinness". Archived from the original on 22 December Retrieved 21 December

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