John Warwick Montgomery

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John Warwick Montgomery : biography

October 18, 1931 –

Montgomery’s interests in the occult has also yielded his studies on early Rosicrucianism (Cross and Crucible), demonic phenomena (Demon Possession), and analytic considerations of the occult as a spiritual search for truth (Principalities and Powers).Johnson, "To Every Occultist an Answer" Tough-Minded Christianity, Dembski & Schirrmacher, 168–190. In the 1980s he spent eight years as a Sunday evening radio broadcaster in California, and from 1988–92 a television presenter of "Christianity on Trial".TV episodes listed by Will Moore, "Bibliography" (Videotapes 1988–1992) in Tough-Minded Christianity, Dembski & Schirrmacher, 730–733

In his legal career Montgomery has, in addition to teaching law, practiced law in California, been admitted to the English bar as a barrister,Havers’ Companion to the Bar is also licensed in France, taken higher degrees in ecclesiastical law at Cardiff University,Cardiff Law School and served as Director of Studies for the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg (1979–81). He has written on legal-moral problems such as cryonics, stem-cell research, euthanasia, abortion and divorce, as well as arguing for a transcendental perspective in international human rights and jurisprudence. He has successfully represented clients in religious liberty cases before the Court of Appeals (1986) in Athens, Greece, and the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (1997 and 2001).Case of Larissis & others v Greece European Commission and Court of Human Rights 140/1996/759-761/958Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia & others v Moldova ECHR 45701/1999 (judgment 13.12.01)Terry Carter, "Fighting on foreign soil, religious right groups prepare for European legal battles" American Bar Association Journal, June 1998, Vol.84, p.32.Staff Writer, "Un american pe frontul romano-rus" Romanian Global News, Bucuesti, Romania, Friday, 23 March 2007. Extensive interview in Romanian with Dr. John Warwick Montgomery on the case of Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia & others v Moldova ECHR 45701/1999, and receiving the Patriarchal medal.