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Dr Richard Shumack

Director, Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam

MEET Dr Richard

Richard lives in Sydney with his wife Judy and there four adult boys. He lived and worked for many years among Muslim communities where he developed his passion for helping Christians and Muslims speak constructively about faith and who Jesus is. His research specialty is philosophy of religion – with a sideline interest in the ethics of sport. This is because he also loves football, cycling and loves and hates golf.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Melbourne
  • BTh (Hons) Moore Theological College
  • BSurv (Hons) University of New South Wales

Affiliations

Member, Evangelical Philosophical Society

Academic Director RZIM Understanding and Answering Islam Program

Fellow, The Centre for Public Christianity

Selected Publications

Jesus Through Muslim Eyes, SPCK, 2020

The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity, 2014

Witnessing to Western Muslims, 2011

‘Muslim Natural Theology Fights Back’, Philosophia Christi, Vol 18, No.1,2016.

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