[1] Born on August 21, 1918, in Clyde, North Carolina, Williams earned an AB (1939) from Davidson College, a B.D.
[2] Following his military service, he earned a Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion and ethics in 1954 at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York.
[2] Williams was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1943 and served as a pastor for several years before becoming a full-time educator.
Upon his retirement in 2000, Regent University established in his honor an endowed chair in Renewal Theology.
This monumental work was the first complete systematic theology written from a Charismatic perspective.