Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Oge ndụ ya: A mụrụ ya n'August 23, 1949, na Peoria, Illinois, Craig bụ nwa nke abụọ n'ime ụmụ atọ Mallory na Doris Craig mụrụ. Ọrụ nna ya na ụzọ ụgbọ okporo ígwè T. P. & W. kpọọrọ ezinụlọ ahụ gaa Keokuk, Iowa, ruo mgbe a kpọfere ya n'ụlọ ọrụ dị na East Peoria na 1960. Mgbe ọ bụ nwata akwụkwọ na East Peoria Community High School (1963<unk>1967), Craig ghọrọ onye mmeri na-arụ ụka na onye na-ekwu okwu n'ihu ọha, a na-akpọ ya n'afọ ikpeazụ ya na ndị otu na-arụ ụka na steeti niile ma merie asọmpi steeti na okwu ọnụ. N'ọnwa Septemba afọ 1965, n'afọ nke atọ ya, ọ ghọrọ onye Kristian, ma mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ gara Wheaton College, ebe ọ bụ onye isi na nkwukọrịta. Craig gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1971 ma n'afọ na-eso ya lụrụ nwunye ya Jan, onye ọ zutere na ndị ọrụ nke Campus Crusade for Christ. N'afọ 2014, Wheaton kpọrọ ya onye gụsịrị akwụkwọ nke afọ. N'afọ 1973, Craig banyere usoro ihe omume na nkà ihe ọmụma nke okpukperechi na Trinity Evangelical Divinity School n'ebe ugwu Chicago, ebe ọ mụrụ n'okpuru Norman Geisler. N'afọ 1975, Craig malitere ọmụmụ doctoral na nkà ihe ọmụma na Mahadum Birmingham, England, na-ede banyere arụmụka Cosmological n'okpuru nduzi nke John Hick. E nyere ya nzere dọkịta n'afọ 1977. Site na nyocha a, akwụkwọ mbụ ya, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), bụ ịgbachitere arụmụka mbụ ọ zutere na ọrụ Hackett. E nyere Craig postdoctoral fellowship na 1978 site na Alexander von Humboldt Foundation iji gaa n'ihu nyocha banyere akụkọ ntolite nke mbilite n'ọnwụ Jizọs n'okpuru nduzi nke Wolfhart Pannenberg na Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München na Germany. Ọmụmụ ihe ya na Munich n'okpuru nlekọta nke Pannenberg dugara ya na doctorate nke abụọ, nke a na nkà mmụta okpukpe, nke e nyere na 1984 na mbipụta nke akwụkwọ doctoral ya, The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (1985).  Ajụjụ: Olee obodo a mụrụ Craig?
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