Professor William H. Brackney

William H. Brackney is The Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College, and a member of the Faculty of Theology in Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. WILLIAM H. BRACKNEY is Principal and Professor of Historical Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. The author of four books and contributor to numerous scholarly publications in Baptist and North American religious history, Dr. Brackney is Chairman of the...See more

William H. Brackney is The Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College, and a member of the Faculty of Theology in Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. WILLIAM H. BRACKNEY is Principal and Professor of Historical Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. The author of four books and contributor to numerous scholarly publications in Baptist and North American religious history, Dr. Brackney is Chairman of the Division of Study and Research of the Baptist World Alliance. His education includes degrees from the University of Maryland, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Temple University, where he received his doctorate in history and religion. William H. Brackney is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Religion at Baylor University. His books include The Baptists (Greenwood, 1988), Christian Voluntarism in Britain and North America (Greenwood, 1992), Christian Voluntarism: Theology and Praxis (1997), Pilgrim Pathways (1998), and Historical Dictionary of the Baptists (1999). See less