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Carl Trueman

Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Carl R. Trueman is an English Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History. In 2018 Trueman left Westminster and became a professor at Grove City College in their Department of Biblical and Religious Studies.

Editorial summary

“Carl Trueman” enters the record as christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Carl, Trueman and Christian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Carl, Trueman and Christian.
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Why this record matters

“Carl Trueman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Carl, Trueman and Christian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carl Trueman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.