Garry Williams read theology at Oxford and worked as a school teacher before returning again to Oxford to complete a Masters on the theology of the Reformation and a Doctorate on the theology of the cross. From 1999 to 2009 he taught Church History and Doctrine at Oak Hill College where he was latterly Academic Dean. Since 2009 he has served as Director of the John Owen Centre for Theological Study at London Theological Seminary. He is Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and an elder at ChristChurch, Harpenden. Garry is married to Fiona and they have four children.
Qualifications
BA; MA; PhD
Research interests
The doctrine of the atonement in Scripture, history, and systematic theology
Covenant theology
Historical theology of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Select publications
‘Penal Substitutionary Atonement in the Church Fathers’, Evangelical Quarterly 83.3 (2011), 195-216
‘Gabbatha and Golgotha: Penal Substitutionary Atonement and the Public Square’, in A Higher Throne: Evangelicals and Public Theology (Leicester: Apollos, 2008), pp. 121-180
‘Karl Barth and the Doctrine of the Atonement’, in Engaging with Barth: Contemporary Evangelical critiques, ed. David Gibson and Daniel Strange (Leicester: Apollos; New York: T&T Clark, 2008), pp. 232-272
‘Penal Substitution: A Reply to Recent Criticisms’, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50.1 (2007), 71-86