Biography
Gwilym Tudur is a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is a member of Clare Hall and holds the Lewis and Gibson Scholarship at Westminster College.
His research focuses on the development of Protestant theology in Wales within the broader context of modern intellectual and religious movements, particularly the Enlightenment and Evangelicalism. His doctoral thesis, supervised by the Revd Dr Robert Pope, studies the theology of the Welsh Nonconformist George Lewis (1763–1822), examining his thought in the context of broader transatlantic developments. Close analysis of Lewis’s writings reveals Welsh Calvinism’s engagement with and contribution to the dominant intellectual and religious currents of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North Atlantic world. His PhD is funded by the James Pantyfedwen Foundation and the Lewis and Gibson Scholarship.
Gwilym holds a BA in Welsh and Welsh History from Aberystwyth University, and both an MA and MPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford. His master’s research, supervised by the Revd Professor Andrew Atherstone, focused on doctrinal developments among nineteenth-century Welsh Nonconformists.
Before beginning his doctoral studies, he trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and served as minister of two Congregational churches in Ceredigion, Wales. He currently serves as Academic Administrator for the Cambridge Theological Federation alongside his research.
Research
- Post-Reformation developments in Reformed theology
- Protestant dissent and Nonconformity in modern Wales
- Theology and influence of Welsh Nonconformist Dr George Lewis
- Transatlantic evangelical correspondence and networks, c.1730–1830
- Nonconformist engagement with Enlightenment thought in the eighteenth century
Publications
Tudur, H. G. “Review of Gras, Gobaith a Gogoniant: Crefydd ac Ysbrydolrwydd yng Ngwaith Emrys ap Iwan, by D. Densil Morgan.” Llên Cymru 48 (2025), forthcoming.
Tudur, H. G., trans. Efengyl Ioan: Llyfr Darllen Groeg (The Gospel of John: A Greek Reader). By Timothy A. Lee. Cambridge: Timothy A. Lee Publishing, 2025.
Tudur, H. G. “The Theology of the Great Awakening in North America and Wales: Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and Edward Williams (1750–1813).” International Congregational Journal 17 (Winter 2018): 59–79.
Other Professional Activities
Presentations:
“More Calvinistic than Calvinists? Hyper-Calvinism and George Lewis’s Doctrine of Election.” Daniel Rowland Centre Conference, Union School of Theology, Bridgend, Wales, 6 September 2024.
“George Lewis’s Pastoral Theology.” Welsh Ministers’ Annual Conference, Bryn y Groes Centre, Bala, Wales, 11 October 2022.
“Mawl o enau plant bychain: George Lewis’s hymnody.” Hymn Society of Wales Summer School, Virtual Conference, 21 May 2022.
“George Lewis and Reformed theology in Wales, 1536–1822: The Theologian of Welsh Congregationalism.” University of Oxford Ecclesiastical History Workshop, Keeble College, Oxford, 7 February 2019.
“Why do many historians find the prevalence of miracle stories in medieval historiographies problematic?” Nature and Practice of Ecclesiastical History Seminar, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, 19 December 2018.
“The Theology of the Great Awakening in North America and Wales: Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and Edward Williams (1750–1813).” Symposium of American Congregationalists, Marshalltown, Iowa, USA, 11–13 October 2018.
