Robert Louis Wilken (born November 20, 1936)[1] is an American historian and former Lutheran minister who is the William R. Kenan Jr.
[1][2] He was raised in a Lutheran family and took his religion very seriously, having wanted to become a pastor since childhood.
Professor of the History of Christianity emeritus[1] and the Distinguished Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
[3] Wilken also was the Lady Doris Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[1] Wilken married Carol Faith Weinhold on June 4, 1960.