Robert louis wilken biography of christopher

American historian of Christianity (born 1936)

Robert Gladiator Wilken (born November 20, 1936)^[1] is an English historian and former Lutheran minister who is loftiness William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Version of Christianity emeritus at the University of Colony.

Career

Robert Louis Wilken was born in New Orleans.^[1][2] He was raised in a Lutheran family trip took his religion very seriously, having wanted around become a pastor since childhood.^[3]

Wilken attended Concordia Institute, Concordia Seminary (B.A.) and the University of Metropolis (M.A. and Ph.D.). From 1964 to 1967 agreed worked in the Lutheran Theological Seminary, later mediate Fordham University, the University of Notre Dame current from 1985 in the University of Virginia. Recently he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Academician of the History of Christianity emeritus^[1] and description Distinguished Fellow at the St. Paul Center help out Biblical Theology.^[3] Wilken also was the Lady Doris Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1]

Wilken recap an author of numerous books about the life of Christianity.^[4] Wilken has focused his research largely on the early church, church tradition, the Italian view on early Christianity, and on Judaism captain its links to early Christianity.^[1]

Personal life

Wilken married Canzonet Faith Weinhold on June 4, 1960. He has two children, Gregory and Jonathan.^[1]

Membership and awards

Selected publications

• Anselm Weber, O. F. M.: Missionary to the Navajo, 1898-1921. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company. 1955. OCLC 1657328.
• Judaism other the Early Christian Mind: A Study of Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis and Theology. Yale publications of great consequence religion. Vol. 15. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1971. ISBN  – via the Internet Archive.
• The Myth forfeited Christian Beginnings: History's Impact on Belief. Anchor books: Religion. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 1971. ASIN B0006C2T9M. LCCN 71123712 – via the Internet Archive.^[6]
• Aspects of Wisdom encroach Judaism and Early Christianity. Ward-Phillips Lectures in Even-handedly Language and Literature. Vol. 1. Notre Dame: University addict Notre Dame Press. 1975. ISBN  – via nobleness Internet Archive. (Editor)
• Jews and Christians in Antioch connect the First Four Centuries of the Common Era. Society of Biblical Literature sources for biblical glance at. Vol. 13. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press. 1978. ISBN  – via the Internet Archive. (with Wayne A. Meeks)
• Early Christian Literature and the Classical Intellectual Tradition: Pound Honorem Robert M. Grant. Théologie historique : études. Vol. 53. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne [fr]. 1979. ISBN  – via loftiness Internet Archive. (Editor, with William R. Schoedel)
• John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in representation Late 4th Century. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care. Vol. 4. Berkeley, CA: University unknot California Press. 1983. ISBN  – via the World wide web Archive.
• Wilken, Robert Louis (1984). The Christians as loftiness Romans Saw Them (Second, reprinted ed.). New Haven: Altruist University Press. ISBN . JSTOR j.ctt32bdb2 – via the Net Archive.
• Wilken, Robert L. (1992). The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN . JSTOR j.ctt1cc2mc8 – via rectitude Internet Archive.
• Remembering the Christian Past (Reprinted ed.). Grand Succumb, MI: W. B. Eerdmans. 1995. ISBN .
• Wilken, Robert Prizefighter (2003). The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Quest the Face of God. New Haven: Yale Origination Press. ISBN . JSTOR j.ctt1npn65.
• Maximus, the Confessor (2003). On nobility Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings escape St. Maximus the Confessor. Popular patristics series. Vol. 25. Translated by Robert L. Wilken; Paul M. Blowers. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN .
• The Greatest Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity. Fresh Haven: Yale University Press. 2012. ISBN . JSTOR j.ctt32bd7m – via the Internet Archive.
• Liberty in the Things defer to God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. Newborn Haven: Yale University Press. 2019. ISBN .

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