Ravi Zacharias

Ravi Zacharias
Zacharias in 2015
Born
Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias

(1946-03-26)26 March 1946
Died19 May 2020(2020-05-19) (aged 74)
Citizenship
  • Canada
  • United States
Occupation(s)Christian apologist, founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
Spouse
Margaret Reynolds
(m. 1972)
Children3
Academic background
Alma materTrinity International University
InfluencesNorman Geisler, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Polkinghorne, Billy Graham
Academic work
Era21st-century philosophy
School or traditionChristian philosophy
Main interestsPhilosophy of religion, Christian apologetics, worldview
Notable ideasFour criteria for a coherent worldview
InfluencedNabeel Qureshi, Lee Strobel, Frank Turek, Tim Tebow, Alisa Childers
Websitewww.rzim.org
www.rzimindia.in

Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (26 March 1946 – 19 May 2020) was an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian evangelical minister and Christian apologist who founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). He was involved in Christian apologetics for a period spanning more than forty years, authoring more than thirty books.[1][2] He also hosted the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking.[3][4] Zacharias belonged to the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), the Keswickian Christian denomination in which he was ordained as a minister.[5]

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  2. ^ "Christian Bestsellers List". Christian Booksellers Association and the Evangelical Christian Publisher's Association. October 2007. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Ravi Zacharias". About. RZIM. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
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  5. ^ Burgo, Peter (19 May 2020). "Ravi Zacharias, 1946–2020". Christian and Missionary Alliance. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.

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