Paul Woolley (16 March 1902 – 17 March 1984) was professor of

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from its inception in 1929 until his retirement in 1977. Woolley studied at

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and

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. He was a minister of the

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, but left to form the

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in 1936. In 1982, a ''

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'' was published in his honor. ''John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World'' () was edited by W. Stanford Reid and included contributions from Robert Godfrey, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, George Marsden, and R. T. Kendall. The Paul Woolley Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary is named in his honor.

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