Paul Chang-Ha Lim
Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity

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

On Leave 2007-2008

Curriculum Vitae

Trained in philosophy, history, and theology at Yale, Princeton, and Cambridge, Professor Lim’s research spans Reformation history, theological trajectories of the Reformed tradition, and the impact of immigration and diasporas on contemporary religious practices.  He is currently working on the four following monograph-length research projects:  1) Believing Is Seeing? Reason and Revelation in the anti-Trinitarian Debates in Seventeenth-century England (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2010); 2) Beyond Xenophobia: A Trinitarian Theology of Immigration (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming in 2012); 3) Evangelicalisms: A Global Story; 4) Singing the LORD’s Song in a “Strange” Land: Politics of the Psalter in Anglo-American Puritan Traditions.

He is the author of In Pursuit of Purity, Unity and Liberty: Richard Baxter’s Puritan Ecclesiology in its Seventeenth-century Context (Brill, 2004), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, 2008). 

He has been awarded a Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2007), Vanderbilt University Research Scholar Fellowship (2007), and a faculty grant fellowship through Yale University Divinity School’s Center for Faith & Culture (2005).  He serves on the editorial board of Brill’s “Studies in the History of Christian Traditions” series, and of the East Rock Institute, a nonprofit research and educational organization, based in New Haven, CT, with its focus on Asian- and Asian-American culture, history and literature.  Additional professional service include: being a member of the Steering Committee on Theological Education for the American Academy of Religion, and on the Steering Committee for the Evangelical Theology Group of the AAR.