Scholarship

Featured Publication

Far as the Curse is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2005)

In this study of the meaning and scope of the covenant, Dr. Williams highlights the often overlooked personal and earthly dimensions of this unfolding historical drama, focusing on the goodness of the physical realm and God's redemptive intentions for his creation.

Books

Far as the Curse Is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2005.

Why I Am Not an Arminian, with Robert A. Peterson. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004.

This World Is Not My Home: The Origins and Development of Dispensationalism. Fearn, Tain, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 2003.

Articles

“The Action-Focused Piety of the Epistle of James." Calvinist Contact, July 23, 1991.

“The Five Points of Arminianism.” Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 30, no.1 (Spring 2004): 11-36.

“God: Idea of Person? The Necessity of Historical Revelation to a Personal Knowledge of God.” Covenant 12, no. 2 (April/May 1997).

“The Homosexual, Scripture, and the Body of Christ." Pro Rege 22, no. 1 (September 1993).

“Homosexuality and the Church: An Opportunity for Reflection." Pro Rege 23, no. 3 (March 1995).

“Individualism and Biblical Personhood." Pro Rege 21, no. 3 (March 1993).

“Kingdom Perspective.” Covenant 22, no.2 (Summer 2007): 14-17.

“Man and Beast.” Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 34, no.1 (Spring 2008): 12-26

“No Other Gods: A Reflection on the First Commandment.” ByFaith 13 (February/March 2007). Originally published in Covenant 18, no.1 (Spring 2003).

“On Eschatological Discontinuity: The Confession of an Eschatological Reactionary.” Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 25, no. 1 (Spring 1999).

“Rapture or Resurrection? The Case for a This-Worldly Eschatology.” Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 24, no. 1 (Spring 1998).

“Since Christ Has Been Raised from the Dead.” Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 33, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 65-71.

“Speaking the Gospel to Postmodern Ears.” Concordia Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2001). Originally published in Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review 26, no. 1 (Spring 2000).

“Systematic Theology as a Biblical Discipline,” in All for Jesus: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Covenant Theological Seminary, ed. Robert A. Peterson and Sean Michael Lucas. Fearn, Tain, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 2006, 167-196.

“Where is the Church? Ecclesiology as the Unfinished Business of Evangelical Theology." Grace Theological Journal 10, no. 2 (Fall 1990).

“Y2K and Millennium Madness.” Covenant (December 1990/January 2000).

Reviews

Many reviews published in a variety of scholarly journals.