Paul C. H. Lim

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Paul Chang-Ha Lim (Korean: 임창하), born April 29, 1967, in South Korea, is an American ecclesiastical historian. He is Professor of the Humanities at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the intellectual history and historical theology of the Reformation and its aftermath in England, especially Puritanism and Trinity debates.

Lim earned a BA in economics from Yale University (1990), an MDiv from Biblical Theological Seminary (1995), an MTh from Princeton Theological Seminary (1997), and a PhD in the history of Christianity from the University of Cambridge (2001). He taught historical and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from 2001 to 2006 and has since worked in Florida. He is known for his work on Richard Baxter, a prominent 17th-century English Puritan, and for Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2012), which won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize. UC Berkeley’s Jonathan Sheehan praised the book for showing how Trinity debates moved into politics and culture in 17th-century England. Lim has also received a Luce Fellowship in Theology, a Louisville Institute Research Grant, and a Vanderbilt Research Scholars Grant. He is writing a book about books related to Reformation theology and social justice.