Robert L Wilken

Robert L. Wilken (1936-2026) was William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. During his time there, he founded the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought. Prior to teachng at UVA, he taught at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and the University of Notre Dame. His many books include Remembering the Christian Past, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity, and Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom.