Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Louis Wilken (November 20, 1936 – June 6, 2026) was an American historian of early Christianity and former Lutheran minister who entered the Catholic Church in 1994. He served as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought, and was a distinguished fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.