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JOHN
WARWICK MONTGOMERY
John
Warwick Montgomery, Ph.D. (Chicago), D.Théol. (Strasbourg), LL.D.
(Cardiff) Barrister-at-law; Distinguished Professor of Apologetics and
the History of Christian Thought, Trinity College and Seminary, Newburgh,
Indiana; author of more than fifty books in five languages ( www.ciltpp.com
) and of over one hundred scholarly journal articles including Christianity
for the Tough Minded and Human Rights and Human Dignity. John Warwick
Montgomery is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of
Luton, England, and Director, International Academy of Apologetics,
Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. His legal speciality
is the international and comparative law of human rights and he regularly
pleads religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
He is a U.S. and U.K. citizen.
John
Warwick Montgomery is considered by many to be the foremost living apologist
for biblical Christianity. A renaissance scholar with a flair for c
o n t r o v e r s y, he lives in France, England and the United States.
His international activities have brought him into personal contact
with some of the most exciting events of our time: not only was he in
China In June 1989, but he was In Fiji during its 1987 bloodless revolution,
was involved in assisting East Germans to escape during the time of
the Berlin Wall, and was in Paris during the ‘days of May' 1968.
He is an ordained Lutheran clergyman, an English barrister, and is admitted
to practice as an attorney at law before the Supreme Court of the United
States and inscrit au Barreau de Strasbourg, France. He obtained acquittals
for the ‘Athens 3’ missionaries on charges of proselytism
at the Greek Court of Appeals in 1986 and won the leading religious
liberty cases of Larissis v. Greece and Bessarabian Orthodox Church
v. Moldova before the European Court of Human Rights.
To
use C. S. Lewis’s words, John Warwick Montgomery was brought over
the threshold of Christian faith “kicking and struggling.”
The year was 1949. The place, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Herman John Eckelmann, a persistent engineering student succeeded in
goading Montgomery into religious discussions. Montgomery, a philosophy
major disinterested in religion, found himself forced to consider seriously
the claims of Jesus Christ in the New Testament in order to preserve
his intellectual integrity. After no mean struggle he acknowledged his
rebellion against God and asked His forgiveness.
