Paul Woolley (historian)

Paul Woolley (16 March 1902 – 17 March 1984) was an American pastor and professor.

Biography

Born 16 March 1902, to a pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, Woolley grew up in The Plains, Ohio.[1] During a visit to Germany, in preparation to visit China as a missionary, he married a Russian countess.[2] Along with J. Gresham Machen, he was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, but they were suspended following its split, with them—alongside others—organizng the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936.[1][3]

Woolley was a professor of Church history at Westminster Theological Seminary from its inception in 1929 until his retirement in 1977.[4] In 1982, a Festschrift was published in his honor.[2] John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World included essays by W. Stanford Reid, W. Robert Godfrey, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, R. T. Kendall, George M. Marsden, and C. Gregg Singer.[5]

Woolley had two children. He died on 17 March 1984, aged 82, at OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital, in Athens.[1]

The Paul Woolley Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary is named in his honor.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "PAUL WOOLLEY (Published 1984)". 1984-04-07. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  2. ^ a b MacLeod, A. Donald (2004). W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7735-2818-5.
  3. ^ Marsden, George M. (1995). Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8028-0870-7.
  4. ^ "Paul Woolley". Westminster Theological Seminary. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. ^ Reid, W. Stanford, ed. (1982). John Calvin: His Influence in the Western World. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-44721-4. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Carl Trueman appointed to the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History at Westminster Seminary". The Aquila Report. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
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