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BornSeptember 30, 1941 (age 79)
China
OccupationAuthor and social critic
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
Website
osguinness.com
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The Call Daily Devotion – Chapter 1 Book: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life By Os Guinness Read Chapter The Ultimate Why Read Verses Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. Proverbs 19:21 (ESV) There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat. The Call by Os Guinness, 1998, Word edition, in English.

Os Guinness (born September 1941) is an English author and social critic. He has lived in the United States since 1984.

Earlier I mentioned the notion of calling this was: Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so. Decisively that everything we are, everything. Os Guinness is an author, social critic, and great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. Os has written or edited more than 30 books that offer valuable insight into the cultural, political, and social contexts in which we all live.

Early life and education[edit]

Born on 30 September 1941 in Hsiang Cheng, China, to medical missionaries working there,[1] Guinness is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. 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.[2]

Career[edit]

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?][3]

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'.[4]

In 1991, along with Alonzo McDonald, he founded the Trinity Forum and served as Senior Fellow until 2004.[5][6][7] 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.[8]

Guinness has lectured in many of the leading universities across the world, and in other major venues addressing political and business leaders.

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

Personal life[edit]

Guinness currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his wife Jenny. They have one son, CJ, who is a businessman in New York.[2]

An Anglican, he attended the Episcopal Church, but left it due to their theological liberalism in 2006.[9] 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.[10]

Bibliography[edit]

Guinness has written or edited more than 30 books.[11] The following are a subset of the books written and edited between 1973 and present, in chronological order.

Authored books[edit]

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  • —— (1973), The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (1976), In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & How to Resolve It, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (1983), The Gravedigger File, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press
  • —— (1992), The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith, New York: Macmillan/Free Press.
  • —— (1993), Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • —— (1994), The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever, Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
  • —— (1994), Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • —— (1996), God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt, Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
  • —— (1998), The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, Nashville, TN: HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson.
  • —— (1999), Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • —— (2000), Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype and Spin, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • —— (2000), Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress.
  • —— (2001), The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress.
  • —— (2003), Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life, Colorado Springs, CO: PRH/WaterBrook & Multnomah.
  • —— (2003), Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • —— (2005), Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins/HarperOne, retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • —— (2008), The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It, San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins/HarperOne.
  • —— (2010), The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church, Ada, MI: Baker/Regal.
  • —— (2012), A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2013), The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2014), Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2015), Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2016), Impossible People, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2018), Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
  • —— (2019), Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Edited works[edit]

  • ——, ed. (1990), Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
  • ——, ed. (1992), No God but God, Chicago: Moody Press.
  • ——, ed. (1998), Invitation to the Classics, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • ——, ed. (1999), Unriddling our Times, Ada, MI: Baker.
  • ——, ed. (2000), When No One Sees: Character in an Age of Image, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress
  • ——, ed. (2001), Doing Well and Doing Good, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.
  • ——, ed. (2001), Entrepreneurs of Life, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.
  • ——, ed. (2001), The Journey, Carol Stream, IL: NavPress.

References[edit]

  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. ^ abGuinness, 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]
  3. ^Edgar, William (2006), 'Francis Schaeffer and the Public Square', in Budziszewski, J (ed.), Evangelicals in the Public Square, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, p. 166.
  4. ^'Living With Our Deepest Differences'(PDF). Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  5. ^Loconte, Joe (September 14, 2000). 'The Case for Converting Kings'. Christianity Today. Retrieved December 21, 2016. [Quote, teaser:] Os Guinness on how to prevent the American experiment from flopping.
  6. ^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.
  7. ^TTF Staff [Guinness, Os] (21 December 2016). 'Os Guinness'(organisational autobio). TTF.org. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  8. ^OCCA Staff (21 December 2016). 'What is the OCCA?'. TheOCCA.org. Oxford, ENG: Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA). Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  9. ^Why We Left the Episcopal Church, By the Rev. John Yates and Os Guinness, 8 January 2007, The Washington Post
  10. ^Assembly 2014, ACNA Official Website
  11. ^'Os Guinness'. Retrieved 21 December 2016.

External links[edit]

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  • 'Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics'. theocca.org. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • Wilkin, Todd; Guinness, Os. 'Issues, Etc.: Os Guinness'(interview). IssuesEtc.org. Collinsville, IL: Lutheran Public Radio. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • Christianity, The Centre for Public. 'Centre for Public Christianity'. publicchristianity.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • 'Discerning Reader: Author Interview: Os Guinness'. discerningreader.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • 'FaithTalks :: Os Guinness'. faithtalks.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  • 'A Free People's Suicide by Os Guinness (with tweets) · ivpress'. storify.com. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2016.

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Evangelical critics of President Donald Trump and his supporters are “dead wrong” in their prioritizing of concerns, according to British author and social critic Os Guinness.

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Conservative Christian radio host and author Eric Metaxas interviewed Guinness on Metaxas’ podcast that aired on Tuesday, partly in regards to Guinness’ newest book, Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat.

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During the interview, Metaxas bemoaned the backlash he received from fellow Christians over his support for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

“I was vilified and since have been vilified as everything under the sun. Even my fellow Christians, or I should say, especially many of my fellow Christians, have said things I would have thought them incapable ever of saying,” said Metaxas.

“You have many people who are professing evangelical Christians, serious Catholic Christians, who are as anti-Trump as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That, to me, is the darkest of this, because I would think that the church would understand that the unborn and a number of other things are vitally important. Something has changed.”

Guinness said he agreed with Metaxas on his assessment, saying that he believed anti-Trump evangelicals and Catholics “haven’t analyzed the situation rightly.”

“They’ve become obsessed with Trump, and they’ve failed to see that he’s not the cause of the problem, he’s the consequence, the symptom,” Guinness responded.

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“While they’re being obsessed with him, the real problems are developing underneath. And Trump won’t be forever. So he serves out two full terms and finishes in whatever way. Then you would still have the problem.”

Labeling many of the evangelical and Catholic critics “friends” of both himself and Metaxas, Guinness went on to state that he felt they were “dead wrong” about their focus on Trump.

Metaxas then added that he found it “horrifying” that many of these evangelical critics of Trump were “demonizing” supporters of the president, arguing that their statements prevent civil discourse.

“They think that everyone who is a sane person must be viciously against Trump. If you’re not that, then you’re not part of the crowd anymore. And so, you can’t even talk to those people,” continued Metaxas.

Guinness believed that Christians needed to adopt “a better analysis of what’s gone wrong” in the United States and to “respond to it in a much more Christian way” than attacking Trump supporters.

Better public discourse can emerge if Americans would “get it out of just the obsession with Trump” to better think about pressing issues, like whether to build a wall on the southern border, Guinness added.

“You think of the wall and the fact that here’s a position which so many of the leading Democrats supported themselves, for the right reasons, not that long ago,” said Guinness. “Now because Trump’s in favor of it, they can’t possibly admit anything like that. Well, this is an insanity for the nation.”

Released last October by InterVarsity Press Books, Guinness’ Last Call for Liberty focuses on his concern about the recent decline in political civility.

“Our society's conflicts are rooted in two rival views of freedom, one embodied in ‘1776’ and the ideals of the American Revolution, and the other in ‘1789’ and the ideals of the French Revolution. Once again America has become a house divided, and Americans must make up their minds as to which freedom to follow,” reads the book’s Amazon description.

“[Guinness] calls for a national conversation on the nature of freedom, and poses key questions for concerned citizens to consider as we face a critical chapter in the American story. He offers readers a checklist by which they can assess the character and consequences of the freedoms they are choosing.”

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Metaxas recently garnered controversy for his interview last week with controversial right-wing figure Milo Yiannopolis, with Andrew Egger of The Bulwark joking that it proves “we live in the worst possible timeline.”

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“What’s interesting is how quickly it becomes clear that Metaxas—although he has apparently read and enjoyed Diabolical—seems to be blissfully unaware of most of the more revolting moments in the Milo oeuvre,” wrote Egger.

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“In a sense, though, Metaxas has done a real service by hosting Milo: He made clear that the political corruption of the modern evangelical movement is in its very late stages. Metaxas is for Trump. Milo is for Trump. So Metaxas assumes that he should be for Milo, too.”