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==Career==
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''. He has written on theology and , the arts , and the nature of God, including the Trinity, and has done as well as having written contemporary novels. He has also served in street and music ministry, urban missions, college chaplaincies, pastoring, teaching, and 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.
Bill served as Protestant Chaplain for three years, between 1971-1974, at Rider College (now Rider University).
==Personal life==
William David Spencer was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to William Day Spencer, (painting contractor and mineralogist, 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”.
Their son, Stephen William Spencer, is the director of programming at a public access cable station.
==Publications==
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).
William David Spencer, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell and Adrian Anthony McFarlane, editors, “Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader,” (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, simultaneously published by Kingston, JA: Ian Randle, 1998, isbn 978-1566-395847 (which has been called the definitive work in its field6).
==References==
1 Evangelical Press Association, as writer and editor of the Priscilla Papers.