William Edgar

Department Coordinator
Professor of Apologetics

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B.A., Harvard University, 1966; M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, 1969; Dr. Théol., Université de Genève, 1993; Home missionary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania, 1969–1970; Faculty, Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1970–1978; Professor of Apologetics, Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1979–1989; Westminster, 1989– .

Author: In Spirit and In Truth: Ten Bible Studies on Worship; Taking Note of Music; Sur le rock; Bibliographie d’ouvrages apologétique; Reasons of the Heart: Recovering Christian Persuasion; La carte protestante: L’apologétique protestante de langue française de 1815 à 1848; The Face of Truth: Lifting the Veil; Truth in All Its Glory: Commending the Reformed Faith; Les dix commandements.

Contributor: Modern Reformation (editor, Borrowed Capital cultural apologetics column); Une Philosophie du Seuil: Hommage à Jean Brun; Art in Question; À propos du SIDA; Practical Theology and the Ministry of the Church; Révolution et Christianisme; Introduction, The God Who is There (Chinese edition); Finding God at Harvard; A Preserving Grace: Protestants, Catholics, and Natural Law; The Identity of Geneva; Creator, Redeemer, Consummator: A Festschrift for Meredith G. Kline; Dictionnaire Œcuménique de Missiologie: Cent Mots Pour la Mission; The Communion of the Saints: Living in Fellowship with the People of God; C. Van Til 1895-1987 Studi di Teologia; It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God; United in Love: The Communion of the Saints; The Practical Calvinist: An Introduction to the Presbyterian and Reformed Heritage; Le Pasteur Samuel Vincent à l’aurore de la modernité, 1787–1857; Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship; Cornelius Van Til: Christian Apologetics, 2nd ed. (editor); Justified in Christ: God’s Plan for Us in Justification; New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics; Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics; Cornelius Van Til: Introduction to Systematic Theology, 2nd ed. (editor); Faith Comes By Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism; God’s Fiery Challenger for Our Time: Festschrift in honor of Stephen Tong.

Representative Articles: “Why Love Can’t Wait: The Lonely Social Ethic of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Mars Hill Review, 2000; “Tricksters and Badmen,” Books and Culture 14/2, March/April 2008; “Shoring up the Fragments: The Poetry of T. S. Eliot,” The Trinity Forum’s Provocations, January 8, 2008.