D. H. Williams

D. H. Williams recently retired as Professor of Patristics and Historical Theology in the Departments of Religion and Classics of Baylor University and now serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for Studies in Religion.

Dr. Williams has been lecturing and teaching courses at major universities in mainland China since 2007. In 2009 and 2012 he served as Visiting Research Professor at the International Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture at People’s Republic University in Beijing. He also served several years as special lecturer in Judaic and Hellenistic literature at Shandong University. 

Dr. Williams’s publications include scholarly work on early Christian thought and literature, as well as studies that seek to integrate the ancient Christian legacy with contemporary Protestant Christianity. His books include Defending and Defining the Faith:  An Introduction to Early Christian Apologetics (Oxford University Press, 2020), The Church’s Bible: [Patristic] Commentary on Matthew (Eerdmans, 2017); Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church (Baker Academic, 2005), Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism:  A Primer for Suspicious Protestants (Eerdmans, 1999), Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene Arian Conflicts (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Arianism After Arius (co-editor and contributor; T & T Clark, 1993).