John Dickson (author)

For other people named John Dickson, see John Dickson (disambiguation).
John Dickson
Occupation Author
Nationality Australian

John Dickson is an Australian writer, historian, minister and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. He is co-founder and director of the Centre for Public Christianity, a media company that seeks to "promote the public understanding of the Christian faith".[1] This year he started part-time as senior minister of St Andrew's Anglican Church, Roseville, Australia.

John's books focus on the relevance of Jesus in the contemporary world, and he won Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2000 and 2005.

Before starting his writing career in 1993, John was a singer/songwriter with the band In the Silence, with whom he continues to perform occasionally. He also hosted the music TV show, Swordfish on Network Ten for two years.

John has a PhD in Ancient History from Macquarie University and is a highly regarded speaker and writer. Much of his attention in recent years has focused on the 'life of Jesus' and challenging the arguments of the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Michel Onfray.

His book, The Christ Files, was made into a documentary and shown on Network Seven at Easter 2008 as well as Christmas Day in 2009.

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For young readers

References

  1. ^ John Dickson Biography http://johndickson.org/bio Accessed - 2008-07-09

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