Craig Bartholomew

Craig Bartholomew was born in Pinetown, Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa. He studied theology at the University of South Africa and then at Oxford University. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Church of England in South Africa and spent three years in the pastoral ministry before taking up a lecturing position at George Whitefield College in Cape Town. He completed a Master’s degree through Potchefstroom University on the composition of Deuteronomy, and then spent a year doing philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He went on to do a doctorate through the University of Bristol while based at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education in England. His doctorate was completed in 1997. He remained as a research fellow in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education until 2004 when he took up the post of H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy and Biblical Studies at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.