Background
Edgar grew up in Paris, New York and Geneva.
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William Edgar
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He studied at Harvard University (Honors Bachelor in Music 1966), Westminster Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity 1969), and the University of Geneva (Doctor Théol 1993).
Career
He has been called by Charles Colson “one of evangelicalism’s most valued scholars and apologists”. Between 1970-1978, he taught at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, and 1979-1989 at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée, in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he continues as Professeur Associé. Since 1989, he is Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary.
He is also Coordinator of the Apologetics Department and Director of the Gospel and Culture Project.
He was Chairman of the Faculty until 2010. Edgar is married to Barbara Smyth Edgar.
They have two children, William Keyes Hill-Edgar and Deborah Boatwright Edgar. He is a Fellow at the Wilberforce Forum and at Colson Center, Honors Trustee at the Greenwood School, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum.
He is on the editorial advisory committee of Louisiana Revue Réforméest
He speaks regularly at the Veritas Forum programs. He frequently participates in the China Christian Scholars Association, and often travels to China. He has taught in French-speaking Africa in several countries.
Edgar is a jazz pianist and regularly performs an evening concert combined with a lecture on the history of jazz.
In 2007, it was recorded live on a double-Civil Defense, Heaven in a Nightclub, during a benefit concert for Chesterton House, a Center for Christian Studies at Cornell University. The concert and recording feature Edgar, vocalist Ruth Naomi Floyd, saxophonist Joe Salzano, and bassist John Patitucci.
His compositions include Louisiana Sainte Victoire, which premiered in Aix-en-Provence, June, 2007. He has also set the Psalms to music in an African mode.
He manages a professional jazz band, Renewal.
Membership
Edgar is a member of American Musicological Society, the Evangelical Theological Society, the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, the American Historical Association and the Society for Ethnomusicology.
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Religion
Christian Evangelical