Gerald L. Bray
Research Professor of Divinity
Beeson Divinity School
History and Doctrine
 Divinity Hall
glbray@samford.edu
205-726-2991

Gerald Bray teaches in the areas of church history and historical theology. In 2006, he was named research professor, and is currently engaged in writing and speaking on a variety of theological issues.  A prolific author, Bray has published many scholarly articles and books, including  in the Contours of Christian Theology series (of which he is also the general editor) and . He served as editor for  and , which contains the Henrician Canons of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, and for three volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series (; ; and ). He is the editor of the Anglican theological journal Churchman. He edited , the first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture. His systematic theology  was released by Crossway in 2012, and his historical theology  was published in 2014. In 2019 he published a theological commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. Bray is a minister in the Church of England.

Education

  • MLitt, DLitt, University of Paris-Sorbonne
  • BA, McGill University

Selected Books

  • , Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2023.
  • Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2019.
  • . London: T&T Clark, 2019.
  • . Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2019.
  • . Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2018.
  • Procès-verbal de l’assemblée générale extraordinaire du clergé de France. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2017.
  • . Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016.
  • . Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.
  • . Wheaton: Crossway, 2012.
  • .  London: The Latimer Trust, 2009.
  • . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005-2006.

Involvement

  • Ecclesiastical Law Society
  • Church of England Record Society
  • Latimer Trust
  • Tyndale Fellowship

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