HomeBrett Williams
Provost / Executive Vice President
Director, ThM Program
Courses
Systematic Theology I, II, III & IV
Senior Theological Seminar
Advanced Trinitarianism (ThM)
Affections, Identity, and Idolatry (DMin)
BRETT WILLIAMS was born and reared in Littleton, Colorado. He was saved as a young man and has been pursuing ministry since he was a teenager. He holds degrees from Pillsbury Baptist Bible College and Central Seminary. He and his wife Naomi have three children: Evelyn, Lillian, and Lukyn. Brett pastored in Austin, Minnesota for ten years prior to assuming the Provost position at Central. He enjoys reading theology and philosophy, backpacking, anything that deals with mountains and jeeps, and spending time with his family. Dr. Williams’ primary influences have been Anselm, G. K. Chesterton, Isaac Watts, Martin Heidegger, and Augustine.
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Education
B.A., Pillsbury Baptist Bible College
M.Div., Central Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Systematic Theology, Central Baptist Theological Seminary
Publications
“The Doctrine of God” in A Biblical Theology of Soul Care, edited by Nicolas Ellen, Stuart Scott, Dale Johnson, and Josh Stephens [Forthcoming] (Woodlands, TX: Kress Biblical, 2025).
“The Doctrine of Man” in A Biblical Theology of Soul Care, edited by Nicolas Ellen, Stuart Scott, Dale Johnson, and Josh Stephens [Forthcoming] (Woodlands, TX: Kress Biblical, 2025).
“A Brief History of Ideas” in A Biblical Theology of Soul Care, edited by Nicolas Ellen, Stuart Scott, Dale Johnson, and Josh Stephens [Forthcoming] (Woodlands, TX: Kress Biblical, 2025).
“The Problem of the Temporal Incarnation and a Perichoretic, Eternal God: Evaluating Leibniz and Rahner,” Detroit Baptist Theological Journal 29 (2024): 99–115.
“Augustine’s View of the Church as Revealed in His Use of Cyprian’s Contra Donatistas,” Detroit Baptist Theological Journal 27 (2022): 93–111.
“To Heal or to Pray? A Defense of Modern Medicine.” FrontLine Vol. 33 No. 1 (January/February 2023).
“Should Dispensationalism Be in Your Church’s Doctrinal Statement?” FrontLine Vol. 31 No. 6 (November/December 2021).
“The Limits of Science” The Baptist Bulletin March/April 2020.
“The Future of Seminary Training, Part 2,” The Baptist Bulletin July/August 2017.
“The Future of Seminary Training, Part 1,” The Baptist Bulletin May/June 2017.
“A Tale of Two Churches,” Baptist Bulletin (July/Aug 2014)
“The Future of Seminary Education, Part I,” Baptist Bulletin (July/Aug 2017)
“The Future of Seminary Education, Part II,” Baptist Bulletin (Sept/Oct 2017)
Academic Memberships
The Evangelical Theological Society
The Evangelical Philosophical Society
Society of Biblical Literature
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