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Andrew Ter Ern Loke is a Singaporean Christian theologian and philosopher. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at
Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts institution with a Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists, who provided both operatin ...
. He has made contributions to the fields of Systematic Theology, Science and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, and New Testament studies. He is a proponent of the Kalam Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Centre for Christian Apologetics.


Early Background and Career

After graduating from Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Loke worked as a medical doctor. He completed his M.A in philosophy at Biola University and Ph.D. in Theology at King’s College London under the supervision of Alister McGrath. In 2014, he joined University of Hong Kong as Research Assistant Professor and was invited to teach Faith and Science at Regent College Vancouver and Master of Theology at Singapore Bible College.


Public Debates

Loke has debated the existence of God and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus with prominent scholars, including
Graham Oppy Graham Robert Oppy (born 1960) is an Australian philosopher whose main area of research is the philosophy of religion. He currently holds the posts of Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and serves as CE ...
, Alex Malpass, and Shabir Ally.


Publications

*Loke, Andrew. 2014. ''A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation. Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion,'' Theology and Biblical Studies series. London: Routledge. *Loke, Andrew. 2017. ''The Origins of Divine Christology. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Loke, Andrew. 2017. ''God and Ultimate Origins: A Novel Cosmological Argument.'' Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Series. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. *Loke, Andrew. 2020. ''Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach.'' Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies series. London: Routledge. *Loke, Andrew. 2022. ''The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited.'' Palgrave *Loke, Andrew. 2022. ''The Origin of Humanity and Evolution: Science and Scripture in Conversation.'' Bloomsbury Publishing *Loke, Andrew. 2022. ''Evil, Sin, and Christian Theism.'' Routledge


See also

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Kalam Cosmological Argument The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the ''Kalam'' (medieval Islamic scholasticism) from which its key ideas originated. William Lane Craig was principally ...


References

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