Stephen Nantlais Williams (born 1952) is a

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theologian, author and lecturer who, after retiring from a teaching career was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at

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in 2017. The son of

Rheinallt Nantlais Williams Rheinallt Nantlais Williams (1911–1993) was a Welsh professor of the philosophy of religion and principal of the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth in Wales from 1979 to 1980. Rheinallt Williams was born in Ammanford in Car ...

and the grandson of

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, Stephen Williams gained his

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degree in Modern History at the

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and his Master of Arts degree in Theology from the

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. After a period as Henry Fellow in Yale University, he received his

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through the Department of Religious Studies of the University in 1981. Except for a short time at Oxford at the Whitefield Institute for Theological ResearchProfessor Stephen Williams
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database (1991–1994) he has mostly spent his professional life in Presbyterian seminaries in the United Kingdom, firstly as Professor of Theology in the

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(1980–1991) and then as Professor of Systematic Theology in

Union Theological College ''This page is about a college in Northern Ireland. For institutions with similar names, see Union Theological Seminary and Union School of Theology'' , mottoeng = ''“Buy the truth and sell it not”'' (taken from Proverbs 23:23) , establi ...

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(1994–2017). He was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at

in 2017 and elected Fellow of the

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(FLSW) in 2018.Stephen Nantlais Williams - Brief Biography
on the

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/ref> Although his main professional areas are theology and intellectual history, Williams also has an interest in the field of

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, served on the Editorial Board of ''Ethics & Medicine'' and spoke at the inaugural Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity conference in the US in 1994. During 2018 Williams held a Research Fellowship at the Henry Center at

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"researching the connection between a Christian understanding of creation and philosophies undergirding developments in artificial intelligence."Stephen Nantlais Williams - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity database
/ref> His books include: ''Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity'' (

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, 1995); ''The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity'' (Baker Academic Press, 2006) and ''The Election of Grace: A Riddle Without a Resolution?'' (Eerdmans, 2015).

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