Paul Chang-Ha Lim
Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History
Faculty Head of Crawford House

B.A. Yale University (1990)
M.Div. Biblical Theological Seminary (1995)
Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary (1997)
Ph.D. University of Cambridge (2001)

Email: paul.lim@vanderbilt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Lim is a historian of early modern England, focusing on religious and intellectual changes around and after the Civil War. He is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University (Divinity School and College of Arts & Science), and is Faculty Head of Crawford House in The Commons, Vanderbilt's new campus and collaborative learning community of resident and affiliated faculty, first-year students, and staff professionals.

He has keen interest in connecting the post-Reformation history of England with the concurrent political, religious and intellectual developments on the Continent. This has been the particular focus of his current research project on the rise of anti-trinitarianism in seventeenth-century England, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is author of In Pursuit of Purity, Unity and Liberty: Richard Baxter’s Puritan Ecclesiology in Its Seventeenth-century Context (Brill, 2004), and bookco-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008).
Lim received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and while at Cambridge, he was the recipient of the Sir G.R. Elton Scholarship in History, the Lightfoot Scholarship in History, and the Archbishop Cranmer Scholarship in Ecclesiastical History. Since then, he has held a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2008), and received the Vanderbilt University Research Scholars Grant (2008), and Vanderbilt University Summer Stipend Fellowship (2008).

His future research projects include: a study of the Protestant and Catholic attitude toward Islam in late-seventeenth century England; an intellectual biography of Isaac Watts, a key eighteenth-century Dissenting philosopher, hymn writer, and theologian; the editorial project of the Reliquiae Baxterianae, a key source in our understanding of seventeenth-century English culture, politics and religion.