Oxford 2006: Honorary doctorate at the ACTS Academy of Higher Education in Bangalore, India 2007: Dr. phil. University of Bonn, Franz-Delitzsch-Förderpreis for his dissertation on ‘Hitlers Kriegsreligion’ 2008: Human Rights Award Pro Fide 2016: Magister Praetor Order of merit for achievements relating to the planning of a civic central council of Christians in the Near East and Middle East (Oriental Christian Council) and for promoting the House of Ghassan, specifically noting “that he [enabled] the House’s personal contact to Pope Francis and to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew” 2016: Knight Grand Cross the highest order of the knightly order “Equestrian Order of Michael Archangel” for his efforts in the cause of human rights and religious freedom in the Near and Middle East 2017: ‘Stephanus-Sonderpreis’ for religious freedom by the Stephanus-Stiftung (Frankfurt) 2021: Honorary doctorate for its commitment to Christian ethics, human rights, and oppressed and persecuted Christians from the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University Works Books (selection) . . . . . . . (in 14 languages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Articles (selection) (referenced on p. 395 of Dawkins' The God Delusion). . . (referenced on p. 544 of Ronald Numbers' The Creationists). . . . . . . . See also John Warwick Montgomery Christine Schirrmacher, a German academic who specialises in Islamic Studies, and is Schirrmacher's wife. Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher, historian and Schirrmacher's great-grandfather References External links . Thomas Schirrmacher on the website of the Word Evangelical Alliance Missiologists German sociologists German evangelicals German human rights activists Living people 1960 births Place of birth missing (living people) German male writers