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Ian Oswald Guinness (born September 1941) is an English author and social critic based in Fairfax County, Virginia; he has lived in the United States since 1984.

Os Guinness
Guinness in 2011
Born (1941-09-30) September 30, 1941 (age 81)
Hsiang Cheng, China
OccupationAuthor and social critic
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
Website
osguinness.com

Early life and education


Born on 30 September 1941 in Hsiang Cheng, China, to medical missionaries working there,[1] Guinness is of Irish descent.[2] He returned to England in 1951 for secondary school and eventual college.[citation needed]

Guinness received a Bachelor of Divinity degree (honours) from the University of London in 1966 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1981, where he studied under Peter L. Berger.[3]


Career


Os Guinness, (left) with apologist Bill Edgar, at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union  2013 main event, St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, England.
Os Guinness, (left) with apologist Bill Edgar, at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union 2013 main event, St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, England.

In the late 1960s, Guinness was a leader at the L'Abri community in Switzerland and, after Oxford, a freelance reporter for the BBC.[when?][4]

In 1984, Guinness went to the United States and became, first, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center,[when?][citation needed] and later a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.[when?][citation needed]

From 1986 to 1989, 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".[5]

In 1991, along with Alonzo McDonald, he founded the Trinity Forum and served as Senior Fellow until 2004.[6][7][8] 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.[9]

He was the primary drafter of The Global Charter of Conscience, published at the European Union Parliament in Brussels in June 2014.


Personal life


Guinness currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his wife Jenny. They have one son.[3]

An Anglican, he attended the Episcopal Church, but left it due to their theological liberalism in 2006.[10] 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 2014.[11]


Bibliography


Guinness has written or edited more than 30 books.[12] The following are a subset of the books written and edited between 1973 and present, in chronological order.


Authored books



Edited works



References


  1. RZIM Staff [Guinness, Os] (21 December 2016). "Os Guinness" (organisational autobio). RZIM.org. Norcross, GA: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  2. "Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw - You Say You Want a Revolution? | Os Guinness".
  3. Guinness, Os (February 1981). "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). solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2017.[dead link]
  4. Edgar, William (2006), "Francis Schaeffer and the Public Square", in Budziszewski, J (ed.), Evangelicals in the Public Square, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, p. 166.
  5. "Living With Our Deepest Differences" (PDF). Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. Loconte, Joe (14 September 2000). "The Case for Converting Kings". Christianity Today. Retrieved 21 December 2016. [Quote, teaser:] Os Guinness on how to prevent the American experiment from flopping.
  7. 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.
  8. TTF Staff [Guinness, Os] (21 December 2016). "Os Guinness" (organisational autobio). TTF.org. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  9. OCCA Staff (21 December 2016). "What is the OCCA?". TheOCCA.org. Oxford, ENG: Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA). Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  10. Why We Left the Episcopal Church, By the Rev. John Yates and Os Guinness, 8 January 2007, The Washington Post
  11. Assembly 2014, ACNA Official Website
  12. "Os Guinness". Retrieved 21 December 2016.





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