Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020,) born Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, was an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist who practiced an intellectual form of Christian theology. He was the founder of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and a host of the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking.
Born in Madras, Madras Presidency, British India, Zacharias immigrated with his family to Canada in 1966. He attended the Ontario Bible College (now Tyndale University) and Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Zacharias taught at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. And he then established RZIM.
In his more than two dozen books, Zacharias made a logical case for Christianity. His works include Can Man Live without God? (1994,) Light in the Shadow of Jihad (2002,) The Grand Weaver (2007,) and Jesus among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ (2017.)
Zacharias was accused of exaggerating his academic qualifications and of sexual misconduct.
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In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things are so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.
—Ravi Zacharias
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