Contributors

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  James M. Houston

  CSLI Co-Founder
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James M. Houston
CSLI Co-FounderJames M. Houston (1922 – 2026) is a co-founder of the C.S. Lewis Institute. Jim served as a Senior Fellow of the Institute, lecturing at CSLI events over the past five decades. He received his Bachelor of Science and M.A. degrees from the University of Edinburgh and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He was a University Lecturer at Oxford from 1947 – 1971 where he taught cultural and historical geography. While teaching at Oxford, he met C.S. Lewis and participated in a regular Bible study with him for six years. He is known as one of the “founding fathers” of Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia where he has served as the first Principal, Chancellor and Professor of Spiritual Theology.  
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  Os Guinness

  Author
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Os Guinness
AuthorOs Guinness, is the author and editor of more than thirty books, including Fool's Talk, Renaissance, The Global Public Square, A Free People's Suicide, Unspeakable, The Call, Time for Truth, The Case for Civility and his most recent book, Zero Hour America. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons to the U.S. Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. Guinness has had a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and to stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other - particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith. (Photo By Deryck Chan 2013)  
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  Leon Morris

  Author
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Leon Morris
Author
Leon Morris, Author, (1914 - 2006) was an Australian New Testament scholar and an ordained Anglican minister. He earned his Master of Theology from University of London and PhD at the University of Cambridge. He also served as warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge, was principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia and visiting professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has several commentaries on the Bible and theological works published including The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, The Atonement: Its Meaning and Significance, New Testament Theology and The Gospel According to Matthew.
 
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  Robert Rutledge

  Professor
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Robert Rutledge
Professor
Robert Rutledge, Professor, (1936-2021) attended George Washington University and the University of Virginia. He served in the Army in the 44th Tank Battalion in the Pacific theater, earning two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. He earned a master's degree in literature at GWU and a doctorate degree from GWU in English literature and criticism in 1964. Mr. Rutledge became an associate professor of English literature at GWU, serving for a time as the director of the off-campus division. He also was the associate dean of GWU's Columbia College of Arts and Sciences.
 
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  Cheryl Forbes

  Professor
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Cheryl Forbes
Professor
Cheryl Forbes, Professor, is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She is also a former editor at Zondervan and Christianity Today. Forbes earned her PhD from Michigan State. She has authored books including Imagination: Embracing a Theology of Wonder, Women of Devotion Through the Centuries, and Notes of a Reluctant Pilgrim.