William S. Barker, II

Professor of Church History, Emeritus

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B.A., Princeton University, 1956; M.A., Cornell University, 1959; B.D., Covenant Theological Seminary, 1960; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1970; Pastoral ministry, Missouri, Tennessee, 1960–1964, 1970–1972; Instructor, Covenant College, 1958–1964; Assistant Professor of History, 1964–1970; Associate Professor of History and Dean of Faculty, 1970–1972; Associate Professor of Church History and Dean of Faculty, Covenant Theological Seminary, 1972–1977; Associate Professor of Church History and President, 1977–1984; Adjunct Professor of Church History, 2002–2006; Editor, Presbyterian Journal, 1984–1987; Westminster, 1987– .

Author: Puritan Profiles: 54 Influential Puritans at the Time When the Westminster Confession of Faith Was Written; “In All Things…”: The Preeminence of Christ in the History of Covenant College, 1955–2005; Word to the World: Selected Writings of William S. Barker.

Contributor: Dictionary of Christianity in America; Theonomy: A Reformed Critique (editor); The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography: 1730–1860; To Glorify and Enjoy God: A Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly; The Practice of Confessional Subscription; Sermons that Shaped America: Reformed Preaching from 1630 to 2001 (co-editor).

Representative Articles: “The Resurrection of the Body,” Tenth Quarterly, 1986; “The Hemphill Case, Benjamin Franklin, and Subscription to the Westminster Confession,” American Presbyterians, Winter 1991; “The Westminster Assembly on the Days of Creation,” Westminster Theological Journal, 2000.