William Lane Craig: The Concept of God in Islam and Christianity

Here's an excellent short lecture by William Lane Craig on the concept of God in Islam and Christianity.

Dr. Craig's Bio:

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. He and his wife Jan have two grown children.

At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.

He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

William Lane Craig vs. Jamal Badawi: "The Concept of God in Islam and Christianity"

William Lane Craig is, in my opinion, the best Christian debater in history. Though he often faces off against the world's most respected atheist scholars (when, unlike Richard Dawkins, they don't run from him), he occasionally debates Muslims as well. Here's his classic exchange with Jamal Badawi on the concept of God in Islam and Christianity. I watched this debate many years ago at Mike Licona's house with my friend Nabeel Qureshi (when Nabeel was still a Muslim).

William Lane Craig: How the Muslim Concept of God Fails

Here's William Lane Craig answering a Muslim questioner on the Christian concept of God.

William Lane Craig on the Islamic Denial of Jesus' Crucifixion

Regardless of theological background, New Testament scholars and Historical Jesus scholars agree that Jesus' death by crucifixion is an established fact of history. This means, of course, that the Qur'an contradicts an established historical fact. William Lane Craig addresses the absurdity of the Islamic position:

William Lane Craig vs. Shabir Ally: "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"

Here's a video of William Lane Craig's recent debate with Shabir Ally at McGill University.