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Dr. Paul Gilliam

Professor of Religion; Director of the Religion Program

Email: prgilliam@chowan.edu
Phone: 252-398-6313

Education

  • PhD, Early Christianity, University of Edinburgh
  • MA, Religious Studies, Christian Origins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • MDiv, Gardner-Webb University
  • BA, Communication Studies, Gardner-Webb University

Academic & Scholarly Achievements

  • Chowan University Faculty Sabbatical Award, 2018
  • McDowell Columns Scholar Prize, 2016
  • The History of Christianity (Introductory and Upper Level Courses)
  • Islam
  • Bible
  • World Religions
  • Introduction to Religion
  • Religion Colloquium
Books
Peeters Press, Forthcoming 2022 in their Studia Patristica Supplement Series
• William Whiston and the Apostolic Constitutions: Completing the Reformation
Brill Publishers, 2017 in their Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Series
• Ignatius of Antioch and the Arian Controversy

Articles
Studia Patristica – Volume XCIII.19 (December 2017): 69-80
• “Ignatius of Antioch: The Road to Chalcedon?”
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History – Volume 66, no.4 (October 2015): 755-771
• “William Whiston: No Longer an Arian”
Baptist History and Heritage – Volume XLVII, No.3 (Fall 2012): 19-33
• “William Whiston: Was He or Wasn’t He?”
Thinking About Religion – Volume 6 (2006)
(the online refereed journal of the North Carolina Religious Studies Association –
http://organizations.uncfsu.edu/ncrsa/journal/index.htm)
• “The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John: Complementary Christological
Compositions”
Book Chapters
Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia: Science, Religion and Metaphysics
Edited by: Steffen Ducheyne, Scott Mandelbrote, and Stephen D. Snobelen – Forthcoming
• “Heterodoxy, Church History, and Biblical Exegesis in Newton’s General Scholium”
Book Reviews and Reference Works
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture – Volume 89, No.4 (2020): 946-948
• Book Review of Rob Iliffe, Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online – Brill Publishers (2018)
• “Apostolicity”
The World’s Greatest Religious Leaders: How Religious Figures Helped Shape World
History 
– ABC-CLIO Press (2018): 2:520-524
• “Perpetua”
Perspectives in Religious Studies – Volume 40, No.4 (Winter 2013)
• Book Review of Adam C. English, The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life
and Trials of Nicholas of Myra (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012)

The Expository Times
 – Volume 120, No.4 (January 2009)
• Book Review of Darrell L. Brock, Acts (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New
Testament; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007)
Review and Expositor – Volume 104, No. 2 (Spring 2007)
• Book Review of Francis J. Moloney, Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody:
Hendrickson Publishers, 2004)
Works in Progress
• A translation and commentary of the Apostolic Constitutions 
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant July 9-August 4, 2017
• The Challenges of Teaching World Religions Summer Institute – Macalester College
Visiting Fellow Cambridge University Summer 2015
• Granted for work on my current book, William Whiston and the Apostolic Constitutions: Completing the Reformation
North American Patristics Society Small Research Grant 2015
• Awarded for my work on William Whiston and the Apostolic Constitutions to be carried out as a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University

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