Parker T. Williamson

Parker T. Williamson is a conservative minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Education Williamson earned a Master of Divinity at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, where he studied under John H. Leith, who also held a strongly critical, conservative perspective of the Presbyterian Church. While there, he joined two classmates on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma to Montgomery marches, in order to encourage Civil Rights legislation. Upon graduation, he pursued further studies at Yale Divinity School, where he earned a Master of Philosophy in Christian Ethics.

Completing his studies, Williamson started a ministry in Lenoir, North Carolina, validated by the Presbytery of Western North Carolina.

Conservative Christian Williamson has advocated against liberation theology and accommodation of the church to post-modern cultural mores. He was the founder and editor of the Presbyterian Layman newspaper, and the founder and CEO of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, both of which espoused his views that the less conservative member of the Presbyterian church were preaching a "false gospel".

Publications Williamson, Parker T. Standing firm : reclaiming Christian faith in times of controversy Springfield, PA : PLC Publications, c1996. 209 p. ; 23 cm. Williamson, Parker T. Essays from Zimbabwe, 1999 Williamson, Parker T. Vanishing Point, 2006 Williamson, Parker T. Broken Covenant, 2007