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In 1986, Bill earned his Doctor of Theology (ThD) degree at Boston University School of Theology in Theology and Ancient Literature, having been invited to teach adjunctively in 1983 for Gordon-Conwell’s Hamilton campus. In 1992, he began teaching the required systematic theology classes at Gordon-Conwell’s Boston Campus/Center for Urban Ministerial Education. In 2000, he was granted faculty status, assigned to the Boston Campus/Center For Urban Ministerial Education as its theology professor, and in 2014, honored with the title Distinguished Ranked Adjunct Professor of Theology and the Arts.

William David Spencer is Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Theology and the Arts at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. In response to questions of whether eternal subordination exists in the Trinity, he drafted in consultation with theologians, exegetes, and historians, ''An Evangelical Statement on the Trinity, and “The New Evangelical Subordinationism?” He has written on theology and the arts and the nature of God, including the Trinity, and has done contemporary novels. He has served in street and music ministry, urban missions, college chaplaincies, pastoring, teaching, writing ministry with over 300 publications including 18 books. Bill for a decade (2004-2014) edited “Priscilla Papers,” the journal of Christians for Biblical Equality, which addressed various issues important to women. Bill has won 20 writing and editing awards''.

He has written on theology, the arts, and the nature of God, including the Trinity, as well as having written contemporary novels. He has also served in street and music ministry, urban missions, college chaplaincies, pastoring, teaching, and writing with over 300 publications including 18 books.  Bill for a decade (2004-2014) edited “Priscilla Papers,” the journal of Christians for Biblical Equality, which addressed various issues important to women. Bill has won 20 writing and editing awards. Bill served as Protestant Chaplain for three years, between 1971-1974, at Rider College (now Rider University).

William David Spencer was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to William Day Spencer, (painting contractor and minerologistmineralogist, who has some First Nations (Leni Lenape) ancestry) and Helen Catherine (salesperson honored at Ambassador status and as junior executive, maiden name Collis, a shortening of her family name Callogeines, who is the daughter of a Greek father and a Czech mother). Bill is married to Aida Besancon Spencer, who is an educator, minister, and a world-renowned New Testament Scholar and author and editor of many books. They cowrite the blog “Applying Biblical Truths Today” (https://aandwspencer.blogspot, 2012-). They edit the “Africanus Journal” 2 https://www.gordonconwell.edu/cume/africanus-journal) ''Africanus Journal'' and the House of Prisca and Aquila series (https://wipfandstock.com). Their son, Stephen William Spencer, is the director of programming at a public access cable station.3

William David Spencer, “Three ''Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity” Trinity'' Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2022 ISBN 978-0-8254-4606-1

William David Spencer, “Name in the Papers” (Levittown, PA: Helping Hands Press, 2013), a novel that won the Golden Halo Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature from the Southern California Motion Picture Council5 Council. 5 (2013).