Gerald L. Bray


Research Professor of Divinity 
History and Doctrine

Email: glbray@samford.edu

 

Education

B.A., McGill University

M.Litt., D. Litt., University of Paris-Sorbonne

 


Gerald Bray taught full-time at Beeson Divinity School in the areas of church history, historical theology, and Latin from 1993 to 2006. In 2006, he was named research professor, and is currently engaged in writing and speaking on a variety of theological issues. He continues to teach specialized short courses for the divinity school. A prolific author, Bray has published many scholarly articles and books, including The Doctrine of God in the Contours of Christian Theology series (of which he is also the general editor) and Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present. He served as editor for The Anglican Canons 1529–1947 and Tudor Church Reform, which contains the Henrician Canons of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, and for three volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary Series. He edited Galatians, Ephesians, the first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripure, and his systematic theology God is Love will be released by Crossway in spring 2012. Bray is a minister in the Church of England.