Name Os Guinness | Role Author | |
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Born September 30, 1941 (age 83) China ( 1941-09-30 ) Occupation Author and social critic Books The call, Time for Truth: Living Fre, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of, The Global Public Square, A Free People's Suicide | ||
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Os Guinness (born September 1941) is an English author and social critic. He has lived in the United States since 1984.
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- Renaissance the power of the gospel however dark the times os guinness acton institute
- Os guinness challenging the darkness towards a new christian renaissance
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Os guinness challenging the darkness towards a new christian renaissance
Early life and education
Born on 30 September 1941 in China, to medical missionaries working there, 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.
Guinness received a B.D. (honours) from the University of London in 1966 and a D.Phil. from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1981.
Career
In the late 1960s, Guinness was a leader at the L'Abri community in Switzerland and, after Oxford, a freelance reporter for the BBC.
In 1984, Guinness went to the United States and became, first, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and later a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
From 1986 to 1989, Guinness served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation and was the leading drafter of the Williamsburg Charter, a bicentenial clarification and reaffirmation of the religious liberty clauses of the first amendment. He also co-authored the public school curriculum "Living With Our Deepest Differences".
In 1991, along with Alonzo McDonald, he founded the Trinity Forum and served as Senior Fellow until 2004. 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.
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
Guinness currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his wife Jenny. They have one son, CJ, who is a businessman in New York.