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He is chiefly noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of [[Christian apologetics]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}
He is chiefly noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of [[Christian apologetics]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}


From 1997–2007 he was Distinguished Professor of Law and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UK and [[Europe]], [[Trinity College and Seminary]], [[Newburgh, Indiana]], USA, an institution that specialises in distance education.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} He is the director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, [[Strasbourg, France]]. He is the editor of the theological e-zine ''Global Journal of Classical Theology''.<ref>[http://www.phc.edu/gj_editorial_board.php Editorial Board], ''Global Journal of Classical Theology''</ref>
From 1997–2007 he was Distinguished Professor of Law and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UK and [[Europe]], [[Trinity College and Seminary]], [[Newburgh, Indiana]], USA, an institution that specialises in distance education.<ref>http://www.trinitysem.edu/TrinityDifference/Seminars.html</ref> He is the director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, [[Strasbourg, France]]. He is the editor of the theological e-zine ''Global Journal of Classical Theology''.<ref>[http://www.phc.edu/gj_editorial_board.php Editorial Board], ''Global Journal of Classical Theology''</ref>


== Family ==
== Family ==

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John Warwick Montgomery
Born (1931-10-18) October 18, 1931 (age 92)
Warsaw, New York
NationalityUSA
CitizenshipNaturalized British citizen[1]
Education11 earned degrees including, Ph.D, Th.D, and LLD
OccupationLawyer
Known forChristian apologetics
SpouseLanalee de Kant Montgomery[1]
Websitehttp://www.jwm.christendom.co.uk

John Warwick Montgomery was born October 18, 1931, in Warsaw, New York. In 2007 he was named "Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought" at Patrick Henry College.[2] He continues to work as a barrister. He specialises in religious freedom cases in international Human Rights law.[citation needed]

He is chiefly noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics.[citation needed]

From 1997–2007 he was Distinguished Professor of Law and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UK and Europe, Trinity College and Seminary, Newburgh, Indiana, USA, an institution that specialises in distance education.[3] He is the director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. He is the editor of the theological e-zine Global Journal of Classical Theology.[4]

Family

Montgomery traces his ancestry back to Comte Roger de Montgomery who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066 in the invasion of England. Montgomery's more immediate branch of the family hailed from County Antrim in Ireland. His parents were Maurice Warwick Montgomery (owned a retail feed company) and Harriet (Smith) Montgomery. He has one sibling, a sister. Montgomery has been twice married. His first wife is deceased. He married Lanalee de Kant in 1988. He has three children from the first marriage, and he also has an adopted son.[5][6]

Education

Montgomery is a scholarly maverick [7] who has 11 earned degrees in multiple disciplines: philosophy, librarianship, theology, and law. His degrees include: the A.B. with distinction in Philosophy (Cornell University; Phi Beta Kappa), B.L.S. and M.A. (University of California, Berkeley), B.D. and S.T.M. (Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio), LL.B. (La Salle Extension University), M. Phil. in Law (University of Essex, England), Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Th.D Doctorat d'Universite (University of Strasbourg), LLM and LLD in canon law (Cardiff University). He also holds an honorary doctorate awarded in 1999 by the Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow.[8][9][10][11]


Career

Montgomery became a Christian in 1949 as an undergraduate student majoring in the classics and philosophy at Cornell University[12]. Upon graduation Montgomery then began studies in librarianship through the University of California, followed on by two degrees in theology, and ordination as a Lutheran clergyman. His M.A. thesis in library science was published by the University of California as A Seventeenth Century View of European Libraries. In 1959–60 he served on the faculty of theology as principal librarian in the Divinity school's library at the University of Chicago, whilst simultaneously undertaking doctoral studies in bibliographical history.[citation needed]

He then served as Chairman of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, where he began to develop a reputation as a Christian apologist. Some of his earliest apologetic lectures in defending the historical reliability of the gospel records were presented at the University of British Columbia and were subsequently popularised in his book History and Christianity.[citation needed]

Whilst teaching in Canada, Montgomery commenced doctoral studies in theology through the University of Strasbourg, France, and then lived in Strasbourg 1963–64. His doctoral dissertation, which was on the life and career of the Lutheran pastor Johannes Valentinus Andreae and his alleged connections with Rosicrucianism, was subsequently published as Cross and Crucible. Montgomery regards this particular text as his most important piece of scholarship.[citation needed]

After completing his Th.D (1964), Montgomery assumed a post as professor of church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (1964–74). It was during the 1960s that he emerged as a significant spokesman for Protestant Evangelicals, writing as a regular columnist in the flagship periodical Christianity Today (1965–83).[citation needed]

He injected himself into the theological controversies of his denomination the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod concerning Biblical inerrancy and higher criticism. On the wider church scene he wrote against the death-of-God theology, and publicly debated one of its proponents Thomas J. J. Altizer at the University of Chicago in 1967. He was also critical of Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann. He summed up much of his opposition to Liberal Christianity and radical theologies in works such as Crisis in Lutheran Theology, The Suicide of Christian Theology and God's Inerrant Word.[citation needed]

His role as an apologist for the Christian faith extended to debates with the American atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1967), situation ethicist Joseph Fletcher (1971), Australian atheist Mark Plummer (1986), humanist George A. Wells (1993), and Jesus Seminar scholar Gerd Ludemann.[citation needed]

During the 1970s Montgomery began training in the law with the twin aims of reintegrating Christian foundations into jurisprudence, and to integrate insights from legal theory and doctrines of proof relevant to furthering Christian evidentialist apologetics. To that end Montgomery established in 1980 The Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, which is now part of Trinity International University. Montgomery resigned his post as Greenleaf Law School Dean and Professor in 1989. In 1991 he relocated to London, England where he became a Barrister-at-Law, wrote widely on apologetics, defended international cases of religious freedom, and taught at the University of Bedfordshire.[citation needed]

Montgomery's apologetic work has generally centred on establishing the divinity of Christ by assessing the historical and legal evidences for the resurrection. Much of this work has influenced popular apologists like Josh McDowell, Don Stewart, Francis J. Beckwith, Ross Clifford, Terry Miethe, Gary Habermas, Craig Parton, Rod Rosenbladt, Loren Wilkinson, Kerry McRoberts and Elliot Miller. He is an advocate of evidentialist apologetics. He offers a distinctly Christian philosophy of history in his books The Shape of the Past and Where Is History Going?[citation needed]

Montgomery's interests in the occult has also yielded his studies on early Rosicrucianism (Cross and Crucible), demonic phenomena (Demon Possession), and analytic considerations of the occult as a spiritual search for truth (Principalities and Powers). In the 1980s he spent eight years as a Sunday evening radio broadcaster in California, and from 1988–92 a television presenter of "Christianity on Trial".[citation needed]

In his legal career Montgomery has, in addition to teaching law, practiced law in California, been admitted to the English bar as a barrister, is also licensed in France, taken higher degrees in ecclesiastical law at Cardiff University, and served as Director of Studies for the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg (1979–81). He has written on legal-moral problems such as cryonics, stem-cell research, euthanasia, abortion and divorce, as well as arguing for a transcendental perspective in international human rights and jurisprudence. He has successfully represented clients in religious liberty cases before the Court of Appeals (1986) in Athens, Greece, and the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (1997 and 2001).[13][14][15][16][17][18]

Literary output

Montgomery is author of over one hundred scholarly journal articles and more than fifty books in English, French, Spanish and German. Articles and essays have appeared in periodicals such as Bibliotheca Sacra, Christian Century, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Eternity, Fides et Historia, Interpretation, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Law and Justice, Library Quarterly, Modern Reformation[19], Muslim World, New Oxford Review, Religion in Life, Religious Education, Simon Greenleaf Law Review.[citation needed]

Critical analyses of Montgomery's work

  • Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity (NAV Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2001). ISBN 1-57683-143-4
  • Ross Clifford, John Warwick Montgomery's Legal Apologetic: An Apologetic for all Seasons (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft [Culture and Science Publishers], Bonn, Germany, 2004). ISBN 3938116005
  • William Dembski and Thomas Schirrmacher eds. Tough-Minded Christianity: Honoring the Legacy of John Warwick Montgomery, Nashville, Tennessee: B & H Publishing Group, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8054-4783-5
  • David R. Liefeld, "Lutheran Orthodoxy and Evangelical Ecumenicity in the Writings of John Warwick Montgomery," Westminster Theological Journal 50 (1988) pp. 103–126. ISSN 0043-4388
  • David R Liefeld, "Lutheran motifs in the writings of John Warwick Montgomery" Thesis (Th. M.) Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1986.
  • Stephen D Rook, “Historical objectivism the apologetic methodology of John Warwick Montgomery” Thesis (M.A.), Harding Graduate School of Religion, 1985.
  • Kenneth Boa, “A comparative study of four Christian apologetic systems” Thesis (Ph.D.), New York University, 1985.
  • W. Gary Phillips, “Apologetics and inerrancy: an analysis of select axiopistic models” Thesis (Th.D.) Grace Theological Seminary, 1985.
  • William F Luck “The resurrectional argument for the existence of God : an analysis” Thesis (M.A.), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1973.
  • Martin Batts, “A summary and critique of the historical apologetics of John Warwick Montgomery” Thesis (Th.M.) Dallas Theological Seminary, 1977.
  • John Wayne Ellas “Faith and reason in the writings of John Warwick Montgomery” Guided Research paper written for course 559 at Harding Graduate School of Religion, 1981.
  • Steven A Hein, “The apologetic of John Warwick Montgomery: its theology, historiography, and method” Thesis (B.D.), Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield Ill.,1971.
  • Richard Winn, “The concept of history in the thought of John Warwick Montgomery and Wolfhart Pannenberg” Thesis (M.Div.), Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, 1978.
  • Hyle R Anderson, “The apologetic approach of John W. Montgomery as viewed from the perspective of the Lutheran Confessions” Thesis (M.Div.), Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, 1979.
  • William P. Broughton, “The historical development of legal apologetics: with an emphasis on the resurrection” Xulon Press, 2009.


Biographical Sources

  • Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Vol. 25, pp 327–329.
  • International Who's Who 1989-90, 53rd edition, p. 1037.
  • Who's Who in America 1988-89, 45th edition, p. 2189.
  • WorldCat Identities Academic Resource WorldCat Identities
  • MPACT Dissertations Information Academic Resource Info on Montgomery's Doctoral Dissertation from U.of Chicago UNC School of Information and Library Science, and Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.
  • Laywers.com John Warwick Montgomery profile in Laywers.com
  • Legal Hub UK search engine directory of individual barristers Search LegalHub UK
  • California State Bar Montgomery's California Bar Profile
  • Washington State Bar Montgomery's Washington Bar Profile
  • Tanfield Chambers, London, England J.W. Montgomery’s Barrister Profile at Tanfield Chambers
  • Cardiff Law School J.W. Montgomery’s Alumni Profile
  • Cornell Daily Sun, vol.68, Issue 181, 06 June 1952, p.10, baccalaureate candidate announcements.
  • Julia Duin, “Pro-religion litigant set to open offices in England, France” The Washington Times, February 26, 1998, Thursday, Final Edition, Part A; NATION; Pg. A9.
  • Kerin Hope, “Evangelists Deny Proselytizing Charges” The Associated Press, May 23, 1986, Friday, AM cycle.
  • Terry Carter, “Fighting on foreign soil, religious right groups prepare for European legal battles” American Bar Association Journal, June 1998, Vol.84, p.32.
  • Carla Rivera, “A Flair for Controversy” The Los Angeles Times, Jan 11, 1989, Californa, Local section. Article Available Here to academics/subscribers
  • Case of Larissis & others v Greece European Commission and Court of Human Rights 140/1996/759-761/958
  • Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia & others v Moldova ECHR 45701/1999 (judgment 13.12.01)
  • Lynne Williams, “Chair for University of Luton Professor of Law and Humanities” The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 16, 1995 Issue 1180, p31.

Note: Montgomery is currently composing his autobiography, and additional biographical data is available from Montgomery's home web page.

Bibliography of Montgomery's Books

  • John Warwick Montgomery manuscript collection established at Syracuse University Library, 1970, but this archive has now been transferred to Southeastern Baptist Seminary.
  • John Warwick Montgomery, The Altizer-Montgomery Dialogue (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1967).
  • Christ Our Advocate: Studies in Polemical Theology, Jurisprudence and Canon Law (Bonn, Germany: Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, 2002). ISBN 3-932829-40-9
  • (ed.) Christianity for the Tough-Minded (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1973). ISBN 0-87123-079-8
  • and C. E. B. Cranfield & David Kilgour, Christians in the Public Square: Law, Gospel & Public Policy (Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy, 1996). ISBN 1-896363-05-9
  • Chytraeus on Sacrifice: A Reformation Treatise in Biblical Theology (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1962). ISBN 0-570-03747-6
  • Crisis in Lutheran Theology, 2 Vols., 2nd edition (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1973).
  • Cross and Crucible: Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654) Phoenix of the Theologians (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974). ISBN 90 247 5054 7
  • Damned Through the Church (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1970). ISBN 0-87123-090-9
  • (ed.) Demon Possession (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1975). ISBN 0-87123-102-6
  • Ecumenicity, Evangelicals and Rome (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1969).
  • (ed.) Evidence for Faith: Deciding the God Question (Dallas: Probe Ministries, 1991). ISBN 0-945241-15-1
  • Faith Founded On Fact: Essays in Evidential Apologetics (Nashville & New York: Thomas Nelson, 1978). ISBN 0-8407-5641-0
  • Giant in Chains: China Today and Tomorrow (Milton Keynes, UK: Word, 1994). ISBN 0-85009-550-6
  • (ed). God's Inerrant Word (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974). ISBN 0-87123-179-4
  • Heraldic Aspects of the German Reformation (Bonn, Germany: Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, 2003). ISBN 3932829832
  • History, Law and Christianity (Edmonton, Alberta: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy, 2003). A revised and expanded version of History and Christianity (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1971).
  • How Do We Know There Is A God? (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1973). ISBN 0-87123-221-9
  • Human Rights and Human Dignity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986). ISBN 0-310-28571-2
  • In Defense of Martin Luther (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing, 1970).
  • (ed). International Scholars Directory (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975).
  • The 'Is God Dead?' Controversy (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966).
  • (ed). Jurisprudence: A Book of Readings (Strasbourg: International Scholarly Publishers, 1974).
  • The Law Above the Law (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, Minnesota, 1975). ISBN 0-87123-329-0
  • Law and Gospel: A Study in Jurisprudence (Oak Park, Illinois: Christian Legal Society, 1978).
  • "The Marxist Approach to Human Rights: Analysis and Critique" in The Simon Greenleaf Law Review 3 (1983–84).
  • (ed.) Myth, Allegory and Gospel (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellwoship, 1974). ISBN 0-87123-358-4
  • Principalities and Powers (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1973). ISBN 0-87123-470-x
  • The Quest for Noah's Ark 2nd edition (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974). ISBN 0-87123-477-7
  • The Repression of Evangelism in Greece: European Litigation vis-à-vis a Closed Religious Establishment (Lanham, New York & Oxford: University Press of America, 2001). ISBN 07618-1956-8
  • A Seventeenth-Century View of European Libraries: Lomeier's De bibliothecis, Chapter X (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962).
  • The Shape of the Past (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1962; rev. ed. 1975).ISBN 0-87123-535-8
  • The Shaping of America (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1976). ISBN 0-87123-227-8
  • The Slaughter of the Innocents (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1981). ISBN 0-89107-216-0
  • Situation Ethics: True or False (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1972). ISBN 0-87123-525-0
  • The Suicide of Christian Theology (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1970). ISBN 0-87123-521-8
  • The Transcendent Holmes (Ashcroft, British Columbia: Calabash Press, 2000). ISBN 1553100131
  • Tractatus Logico-Theologicus (Bonn, Germany: Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, 2003). ISBN 3-932829-80-8
  • Where is History Going? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1969).

Note: Many of Montgomery's books and taped lectures are available from the Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy.

References

  1. ^ a b "JWM home". Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  2. ^ Halbrook, David (July 31, 2007). "Renowned Apologist John Warwick Montgomery Joins PHC Faculty". Patrick Henry College. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  3. ^ http://www.trinitysem.edu/TrinityDifference/Seminars.html
  4. ^ Editorial Board, Global Journal of Classical Theology
  5. ^ Debrett's People of TodayMontgomery's profile at Debrett's Biographical Reference of Leading Figures
  6. ^ Marquis Who’s Who biographies updated 30 May 2011: Who's Who in Finance and Business, 31st Edition; Who's Who in the World, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Editions; Who's Who in American Law, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 16th Editions; Who's Who in America, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th Editions. Lexis Nexus access date 06 Aug 2011.
  7. ^ Carla Rivera, “A Flair for Controversy” The Los Angeles Times, Jan 11, 1989, Californa, Local section. Article Available Here to academics/subscribers
  8. ^ MPACT Dissertations Information Academic Resource Info on Montgomery's Doctoral Dissertation from U.of Chicago UNC School of Information and Library Science, and Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.
  9. ^ Cardiff Law School J.W. Montgomery’s Alumni Profile
  10. ^ Tanfield Chambers, London, England [http://www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk/Associates/John_Montgomery J.W. Montgomery’s Barrister Profile at Tanfield Chambers
  11. ^ Marquis Who’s Who biographies updated 30 May 2011: Who's Who in Finance and Business, 31st Edition; Who's Who in the World, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Editions; Who's Who in American Law, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 16th Editions; Who's Who in America, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th Editions. Lexis Nexus access date 06 Aug 2011.
  12. ^ Cornell Daily Sun, vol.68, Issue 181, 06 June 1952, p.10, baccalaureate candidate announcements.
  13. ^ Case of Larissis & others v Greece European Commission and Court of Human Rights 140/1996/759-761/958
  14. ^ Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia & others v Moldova ECHR 45701/1999 (judgment 13.12.01)
  15. ^ Terry Carter, “Fighting on foreign soil, religious right groups prepare for European legal battles” American Bar Association Journal, June 1998, Vol.84, p.32.
  16. ^ Tanfield Chambers, London, England J.W. Montgomery’s Barrister Profile at Tanfield Chambers
  17. ^ Cardiff Law School J.W. Montgomery’s Alumni Profile
  18. ^ Romanian Global News, Friday, 23 March, 2007.
  19. ^ "Modern Reformation - Author Biography". Retrieved 2011-07-04.

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