David Wilhite, PhD

Education

• PhD, The University of St. Andrews

Research Interests

• Early Christian History and Theology
• Ancient North African Christianity
• Reception of the Bible and Patristic Exegesis
• Christology and Ecclesiology

Courses Taught

• Christian Texts & Traditions 1
• Electives in Historical Theology

Publication Highlights

• Tertullian the African (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2007).
• Co-author w/ Matt R. Jenson, The Doctrine of the Church (London: T&T Clark, 2010).
• The Gospel According to Heretics (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2014).
• Ancient African Christianity (London: Routledge, 2017).
• Co-editor w/ Todd D. Still, of the series Paul Among the Fathers (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2013-).
• Co-editor w/ Bruce Longenecker, Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
• Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Early Christian Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
• Co-author w/ Adam Winn, Israel’s LORD: YHWH as Two Powers in Second Temple Literature (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024).
• Co-author w/ Adam Winn, Christ the LORD: Jesus as YHWH in the New Testament (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming).
• Co-author w/ Adam Winn, The Triune LORD: YHWH Christology in Early Christian History (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming).

About Dr. Wilhite

Dr. David Wilhite is from Columbus, Georgia. He has served on the pastoral staff of two churches in Birmingham, Alabama, and he is frequently invited to speak, supply preach, and help as interim pastor for various churches. After living and studying in Scotland at the University of St. Andrews, he taught for two years at Seattle Pacific University. He came to Truett in the Fall of 2007, where he teaches a required course in early Christian studies, as well as other electives in historical theology.

He has written six books, over 40 articles, and essays, and he has helped edit numerous research projects. His primary work has been in ancient African Christianity and more generally in the development of early Christian theology. He is currently co-authoring a three-volume work on early Christology, focusing on how the early Christians understood Jesus’ pre-existence and how he was the one appearing in the scriptures as “LORD.”