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
Queen's University Belfast
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in 2017.
The son of
Rheinallt Nantlais Williams
Rheinallt Nantlais Williams (1911–1993) was a Welsh people, 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 Amm ...
and the grandson of
Nantlais Williams
William Nantlais Williams (30 December 1874 – 18 June 1959), better known simply as Nantlais, was a Wales, Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christianity, Christian minister who played a prominent role in the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.
Background ...
, Stephen Williams gained his
Master of Arts
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degree in Modern History at the
University of Oxford
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and his Master of Arts degree in Theology from the
University of Cambridge
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. After a period as Henry Fellow in Yale University, he received his
PhD
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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 Research[Professor Stephen Williams]
- Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
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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
United Theological College, Aberystwyth
The United Theological College located in Aberystwyth, in the county of Ceredigion in mid Wales, is a Grade II listed building which was the ministerial training college of the Presbyterian Church of Wales from 1906 to 2003 and an associate colle ...
(1980–1991) and then as Professor of Systematic Theology in
Union Theological College
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in
Belfast
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(1994–2017). He was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at
Queen's University Belfast
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in 2017 and elected Fellow of the
Learned Society of Wales
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(FLSW) in 2018.
[Stephen Nantlais Williams - Brief Biography]
on the Faraday Institute website[Profile for Stephen Nantlais Williams - The Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation database]
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Although his main professional areas are theology and intellectual history, Williams also has an interest in the field of bioethics
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, served on the Editorial Board of ''Ethics & Medicine'' and spoke at the inaugural The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity conference in the US in 1994. During 2018 Williams held a Research Fellowship at the Henry Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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In April 2025, Trinit ...
"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
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His books include: ''Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity'' (Cambridge University Press
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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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1950s births
Living people
People from Aberystwyth
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Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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Academics of Queen's University Belfast
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Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
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Welsh theologians
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