Os Guinness

Os Guinness (born September 30, 1941) is an author and social critic.^[1]

Biography

Born in China, he is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, and returned to England in 1951, where he went to school and college. He received a B.D. (honours) from University of London in 1966 and a D.Phil from Oriel College, Oxford in 1981.^[1]

In the 1960s, he was a leader at L'Abri.^[2] In 1984 Guinness came to the United States, where he was first a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and then a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter, celebrating the genius of the First Amendment and setting out the signers' vision of a civil public square.^{[3][non-primary source needed]}He founded the Trinity Forum in 1991, and served as Senior Fellow until 2004. Guinness has written or edited more than 25 books. He currently lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife Jenny.^[4]

Bibliography

• The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way (IVP, 1973)
• In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & How to Resolve It (IVP, 1976)
• Doubt (Lion-Hudson, 1987)
• The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith (Free, 1992)
• Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity (Baker, 1993)
• The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever (Crossway, 1994)
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It (Baker, 1994)
• God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt (Crossway, 1996)
• The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Thomas Nelson, 1998)
• Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn (Baker, 1999)
• Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion (Navpress, 2000)
• The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America (Navpress, 2001)
• Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin (Baker, 2002)
• Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (WaterBrook, 2003)
• Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance (Baker, 2005)
• Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil (HarperCollins, 2006)
• The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It, (Harper One, 2008)
• The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church (Regal, 2010)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
2. ^ William Edgar, 'Francis Schaeffer and the Public Square', in Evangelicals in the Public Square, J. Budziszewski (ed.), Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Publishing Group, 2006, p. 166
3. ^ "The Williamsburg Charter". http://store.ttf.org/wich.html. Retrieved 2010-12-09. , The Trinity Forum
4. ^ Bio, osguinness.com

External links

• Interview with Os Guinness - Issues, Etc.
• Interview with Os Guinness from the Centre for Public Christianity
• Interview with Os Guinness on his Case for Civility

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