John Warwick Montgomery

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 who 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, Newburgh, Indiana, USA, an institution that specialises in distance education. He is the editor of the theological e-zine Journal of Classical Theology.

Avocational Interests

Montgomery's avocational interests include gastronomy, vinology, reading, collecting rare and antique books, Sherlock Holmes, heraldry, and travel. Over a twenty year period Montgomery acted as an educational tour guide taking small parties to important sites in Reformation history in western, central and eastern Europe, and to sites of biblical importance in Israel and the Mediterranean. He happened to be leading a tour party from Australia and landed in Fiji (1987) at the time of the military coup, and again was in Beijing the day prior to the Tiananamen Square massacre (1989). He was also involved in several ascents on Mount Ararat in Turkey in the early 1970s. A naturalized citizen of England, Montgomery resides there and also spends the summer living in Strasbourg, and regularly visits North America to attend the annual Evangelical Theological Society conventions.

Related Topics:
Sherlock Holmes - Reformation - Israel - Australia - Fiji - Turkey

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