John Warwick Montgomery was born October 18, 1931 in Warsaw, New York. He is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of Luton, England, and since his retirement has continued to work as a barrister. He specialises in religious freedom cases in international Human Rights law.

He is also noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics. He maintains his activities in apologetics, by serving as the director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.

Since 1997 he has also been Distinguished Professor of Law and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, UK and Europe, Trinity College and Seminary, Newburgh, Indiana, USA, an institution that specialises in distance education. He is the editor of the theological e-zine

Family

Montgomery traces his ancestry back to Comte Roger de Montgomery who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066 in the invasion of England. Montgomery's more immediate branch of the family hailed from County Antrim in Ireland. His parents were Maurice Warwick Montgomery (owned a retail feed company) and Harriet (Smith) Montgomery. He has one sibling a sister.

Montgomery has been twice married (first marriage to Joyce Ann Bailer; second marriage to Lanalee de Kant). He has three children from the first marriage: Elizabeth, David and Catherine. He has an adopted son from his second marriage, and a step-daughter.

Education

Montgomery is a scholar who has earned degrees in multiple disciplines: philosophy, librarianship, theology, and law. His degrees include: the A.B. with distinction in Philosophy (Cornell University; Phi Beta Kappa), B.L.S.

Career

Montgomery became a Christian in 1949 as an undergraduate student majoring in the classics and philosophy at Cornell University. Upon graduation Montgomery then began studies in librarianship through the University of California, followed on by two degrees in theology, and ordination as a Lutheran clergyman. His M.A. thesis in library science was published by the University of California as A Seventeenth Century View of European Libraries. In 1959-60 he served on the faculty of theology as principal librarian in the Divinity school's library at the University of Chicago, whilst simultaneously undertaking doctoral studies in bibliographical history.

He then served as Chairman of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, where he began to develop a reputation as a Christian apologist. Some of his earliest apologetic lectures in defending the historical reliability of the gospel records were presented at the University of British Columbia and were subsequently popularised in his book History and Christianity.

Whilst teaching in Canada, Montgomery commenced doctoral studies in theology through the University of Strasbourg, France, and then lived in Strasbourg ernal text' title="http://www.cesnur.org/conferences/riga2000/montgomery.htm" rel="nofollow">"Greek Opposition to Evangelism" by John Warwick Montgomery presented at the CESNUR 2000 Conference, Riga, Latvia

Critical Analyses of Montgomery's Work

• Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Faith Has Its Reasons: An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity (NAV Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2001).

• "John Warwick Montgomery's Apologetic" Special Issue of

• Ross Clifford, John Warwick Montgomery's Legal Apologetic: An Apologetic for all Seasons (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, Bonn, Germany, 2004).

• David R. Liefeld, "Lutheran Orthodoxy and Evangelical Ecumenicity in the Writings of John Warwick Montgomery," Westminster Theological Journal 50 (1988) pp. 103-126.

• Richard Packham,

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Biographical Sources

• Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Vol. 25, pp 327-329.
• International Who's Who 1989-90, 53rd edition, p. 1037.
• Who's Who in America 1988-89, 45th edition, p. 2189.

Note: Montgomery is currently composing his autobiography, and additional biographical data is available from .

Bibliography of Montgomery's Books

• John Warwick Montgomery manuscript

collection established at Syracuse University Library, 1970, but this archive has now been transferred to Southeastern Baptist Seminary.

• Will Moore, Bibliography of Dr John Warwick Montgomery's Writings 3rd edition (,Edmonton, Alberta, 2003).

• John Warwick Montgomery, The Altizer-Montgomery Dialogue (InterVarsity Press, Chicago, 1967).

• Christ Our Advocate: Studies in Polemical Theology, Jurisprudence and Canon Law (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, Bonn, Germany, 2002).

• (ed.) Christianity for the Tough-Minded (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973).

• and C. E. B. Cranfield & David Kilgour, Christians in the Public Square: Law, Gospel & Public Policy (Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy, Edmonton, Alberta, 1996).

• Chytraeus on Sacrifice: A Reformation Treatise in Biblical Theology (Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962).

• Crisis in Lutheran Theology, 2 Vols., 2nd edition (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973).

• Cross and Crucible: Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654) Phoneix of the Theologians (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1974).

• Damned Through the Church (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1970).

• (ed.) Demon Possession (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975).

• Ecumenicity, Evangelicals and Rome (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1969).

• (ed.) Evidence for God: Deciding the God Question (Probe Ministries, Dallas, Texas, 1991).

• Faith Founded On Fact: Essays in Evidential Apologetics (Thomas Nelson, Nashville & New York, 1978).

• Giant in Chains: China Today and Tomorrow (Word, Milton Keynes, UK, 1994).

• (ed). God's Inerrant Word (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1974).

• Heraldic Aspects of the German Reformation (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, Bonn, Germany, 2003).

• History, Law and Christianity (Canadian Institute for Law,Theology and Public Policy, Edmonton, Alberta, 2003). A revised and expanded version of History and Christianity (InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1971).

• How Do We Know There Is A God? (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973).

• Human Rights and Human Dignity (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986).

• In Defense of Martin Luther (Northwestern Publishing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1970).

• (ed). International Scholars Directory (Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, 1975).

• The 'Is God Dead?' Controversy (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1966).

• (ed). Jurisprudence: A Book of Readings (International Scholarly Publishers, Strasbourg, 1974).

• The Law Above the Law (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975).

• Law and Gospel: A Study in Jurisprudence (Christian Legal Society, Oak Park, Illinois, 1978).

• "The Marxist Approach to Human Rights: Analysis and Critique" in The Simon Greenleaf Law Review 3 (1983-84).

• (ed.) Myth, Allegory and Gospel (Bethany Fellwoship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1974).

• Principalities and Powers (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973).

• The Quest for Noah's Ark 2nd edition (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1974).

• The Repression of Evangelism in Greece: European Litigation vis-à-vis a Closed Religious Establishment (University Press of America, Lanham, New York & Oxford, 2001).

• A Seventeenth-Century View of European Libraries: Lomeier's De bibliothecis, Chapter X (University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1962).

• The Shape of the Past (Revised ed. Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975).

• The Shaping of America (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1976).

• The Slaughter of the Innocents (Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois, 1981).

• Situation Ethics: True or False (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972).

• The Suicide of Christian Theology (Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1970).

• The Transcendent Holmes (Calabash Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia, 2000).

• Tractatus Logico-Theologicus (Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft/Culture and Science Publishers, Bonn, Germany, 2003).

• Where is History Going? (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1969).

Note: Many of Montgomery's books and taped lectures are available from the .