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Alister McGrath

1953 - Today

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Alister Edgar McGrath (; born 1953) is a Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual. He currently holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and is a fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of Divinity at Gresham College. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alister McGrath has received more than 580,938 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alister McGrath is the 1,212th most popular philosopher (down from 1,092nd in 2019), the 4,607th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,832nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alister McGrath ranks 1,212 out of 1,267. Before him are Dugald Stewart, Walter Kaufmann, Simon Blackburn, J. J. C. Smart, Volker Zotz, and Wendy Brown. After him are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, George Henry Lewes, David Ray Griffin, John Gray, C. H. Dodd, and Ralph Barton Perry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Alister McGrath ranks 428. Before him are František Štambachr, Ma Jian, Jay O. Sanders, Carla Bodendorf, Kaarlo Maaninka, and Mehdi Cerbah. After him are Erich Obermayer, Shōichi Nakagawa, Rolf Danneberg, Nikolai Budarin, Paweł Janas, and Vera Komisova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alister McGrath ranks 4,607 out of 8,785. Before him are Malcolm MacDonald (1901), Dele Alli (1996), Lindsay Hoyle (1957), Stephen Morris (1957), Gilbert Walker (1868), and Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868). After him are Phil Collen (1957), Spottiswoode Aitken (1868), Adela Pankhurst (1885), John of Worcester (1100), Sylvia Syms (1934), and Peter Arundell (1933).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Alister McGrath ranks 88. Before him are John Major (1467), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), Susan Haack (1945), Dugald Stewart (1753), Simon Blackburn (1944), and J. J. C. Smart (1920). After him are George Henry Lewes (1817), John Gray (1948), C. H. Dodd (1884), Mary Midgley (1919), Nick Land (1962), and Peter Geach (1916).

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