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  William D. Walker

  Professor
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William D. Walker
Professor
William D. Walker (1923 - 2010), Professor, was a prominent experimentalist and theorist in elementary particle physics.  He attended Rice University in Houston, obtaining his degree in Physics in 1944. As an officer in the US Navy working on far-infrared detection until the end of World War II. He then went to graduate school at Cornell University, where he did research on cosmic-ray physics and obtained his Ph.D. in 1949. After teaching briefly at Rice, at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Rochester, in 1957 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin Madison (served as Chairman from 1964 to 1971.) He left for Duke University in 1971 (again served as Chairman from 1975 to 1981.)
 
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  Constance Kalbach Walker

  Scientist
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Constance Kalbach Walker
Scientist
Constance Kalbach Walker, Scientist, served as the senior research scientist (retired) at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Physics Department at Duke University in NC. She is one of the pioneers in the study of preequilibrium nuclear reactions. Constance became a Christian in 1975 and has been interested in the relationship between the findings of science and the message of the Bible since. She authored, along with her late husband William Walker, The Heart and Hand of God: Perspectives on Christianity and Science. 
 
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  Marjorie Lamp Mead

  Author
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Marjorie Lamp Mead
Author
Marjorie Lamp Mead, Author, is Associate Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and Executive Editor of VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center. She has held varied positions at the Wade Center since coming to work at the collection in 1977 soon after receiving her B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College. She holds an M.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wheaton College. Her published works include A Reader’s Guide Through the Wardrobe and A Reader’s Guide to Caspian (both co-authored with Leland Ryken); C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children; and Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis as well as numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, and chapters of books regarding the Wade authors.
 
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  Alister McGrath

  Professor
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Alister McGrath

Professor

Alister McGrath serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford. He has also served as the Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford, the President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and associate priest in Cotswolds for a group of village parishes (Church of England.) McGrath’s best known books include The Twilight of Atheism, The Dawkins Delusion?, Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, A Scientific Theology and his most recent, Christian Theology: An Introduction, 7th Edition. He received his MA and DPhil from Oxford University.
 

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  Arthur W. Lindsley

  Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI
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Arthur W. Lindsley
Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLIArthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.  
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  Christopher Mitchell

  Theologian
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Christopher Mitchell
Theologian
Christopher Mitchell, Theologian, (1951 – 2014) was the third director of the Marion E. Wade Center from 1994 to 2013, and the first holder of the Marion E. Wade Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Mitchell was also the Consulting Editor for VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review (now VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center). Prior to coming to Wheaton College he served as a missionary and pastor. He has published several articles including “C.S. Lewis and Authentic Discipleship,” Knowing and Doing (C.S. Lewis Institute, Spring 2011 Issue.) Mitchell received his M.A. from Wheaton College, and a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where his concentration was Historical Theology with a focus on Jonathan Edwards.
 
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  Lyle Dorsett

  Professor, Senior Fellow for Spiritual Formation, CSLI
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Lyle Dorsett
Professor, Senior Fellow for Spiritual Formation, CSLI
Lyle Dorsett holds the Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School in Samford University. He taught courses in evangelism, spiritual formation and church history. He also serves as the pastor of Christ the King Anglican Church in Homewood, Alabama. Lyle received his PhD in American history and has published numerous books, including several Christian biographies and three works on C. S. Lewis.