D. H. Williams is professor of patristics and historical theology (retired) at the Departments of Religion and Classics, Baylor University (2002-2022). He is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Studies in Religion, Baylor University. Ph.D. 1991 University of Toronto; Th.M. 1985 Princeton Theological Seminary.; M.Div. Trinity Evangelical Div School. Williams specializes in early Christian literature and theology, the later Roman Empire, the history of doctrine and the fourth century Trinitarian controversies; Christianity in China. Prior to 2002 Williams was Associate Professor of Theology in Patristics and Historical Theology at Loyola University Chicago and pastored two churches in Rochester, NY and Pittsburgh, PA. He has published books with Oxford University Press, Eerdmans Publishing, Baker Academic and Notre Dame Press. His over three dozen peer-reviewed articles and essays appear in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Theological Studies, Church History, Studia Patristica, Scottish Journal of Theology, Interpretation, Pro Ecclesia and contributions to books. Of particular interest, Williams wrote an essay that immediately followed the book of Revelation in the New Living Study Bible (Tyndale Press, 2008) entitled “After the Apostles.” Williams has been active in teaching in China since 2006. He has lectured at major universities in mainland China, served as a plenary speaker at People’s University of China’s Summer Institute conferences, and has had several articles published in the Journal for the Study of Christian Culture. In the summer 2009, he was Visiting Professor at the International Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture, at the People’s University in Beijing. From 2016-20, he was lecturer at the Center of Hellenism and Late Antiquity in the School of Philosophy and Social Science, Shandong University. His book Retrieving the Tradition has been translated published in 2011 by China Social Sciences Press and reprinted in 2016. SELECT BOOKS: Defending the Defining the Faith: An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetic Literature (Oxford, 2020). Tradition, Scripture and Interpretation: A Sourcebook of the Ancient Church (Baker Academic Books, 2006). Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church (Baker Academic Books, 2005). Selection in Mars Hill Journal 76 (Sept/Oct. 2005)2006. Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999). Selections in Mars Hill Audio Anthology, 2000. Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene Arian Conflicts (Oxford University Press, 1995). SELECT ARTICLES: “The Council of Ariminum (359) and the Rise of the Neo-Nicenes” in The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea, ed., Y. Kim (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “逻各斯的含义:一篇简短的传记” (The Career of the Logos) The Journal for the Study of Christian Culture 44 (2020). “The Tradition of Christian Persecution,” Pro Ecclesia 28 (2019), 403–417. “Ambrose as Apologist” Studia Patristica 85 (2018), 65-76. “Patristic Theologies of Salvation: An Introduction,” Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction, ed. J. Holcomb (New York University Press, 2017). “The Gospel of Matthew in Service of the Early Fathers,” Pro Ecclesia 23 (2015), 81-98. “A Catechetical Address on the Nicene Creed?” Harvard Theological Review (2010). “Similis et Dissimilis: Gauging our Expectations of the Early Fathers,” in Ancient Faith for the Church's Future , ed., J. Green (IVP Press, 2008). “The Earliest ‘Mere Christianity’: The Rule of Faith,” Christian History and Biography 105 (2008). “Living the Good Life according to Augustine,” Christianity Today, September, 2007. “Monarchianism and Photinus as the Persistent Heretical Face of the Fourth Century”, Harvard Theological Review 99 (2006), 187-206. "Justification by Faith: A Patristic Doctrine," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56 (2006), 649-667. “The Patristic Tradition as Canon”, Perspectives in Religious Studies 32 (2005), 357-79. “American Protestantism and Vocation in Higher Education”, Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community, eds., D. V. Henry and M. D. Beaty (Baker Academic, 2005), 163-79. “Do You Know Whom You Worship? The Council of Nicaea and Its Bitter Aftermath,” Christian History and Biography 85 (2005), 445-61. “The Diffusive Disintegration of Catholicity”, Pro Ecclesia 23 (2003), 389-93. "Scripture, Tradition and the Church: Reformation and Post-Reformation" in The Free Church and the Early Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide, ed., D. H. Williams (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002), 101-26. "Defining Orthodoxy in Hilary of Poitiers' Commentarium in Mattheaum", Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001), 151-171. "The Search for Sola Scriptura in the Early Church", Interpretation 52 (1998), 338-350. "Constantine, Nicaea and the 'Fall' of the Church", in Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community, eds., L. Ayres and G. Jones (London: Routledge Press, 1998), 117-136. "Another Exception to Later Fourth Century 'Arian' Typologies: The Case of Germinius of Sirmium", The Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996), 335-357. "Polemics and Politics in Ambrose of Milan's De fide", Journal of Theological Studies N.S. 46 (1995), 519-531. Reprinted in Recent Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays, ed., E. Ferguson (New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1999). "The Anti Arian Campaigns of Hilary of Poitiers and the Liber Contra Auxentium", Church History 61 (1992), 7 22. -------------------- Seminar Courses Offered: "Ancient Apologetic Literature" “Apostolic Fathers” “Early Latin Theologians” “The Nicene-Arian Conflicts” “Neo-Nicene Christianity” “Orthodoxy and Heresy” Development in the Thought of Augustine
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