Daniel E.Wilson is the senior pastor of Plainview Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He and his wife Ginny have one daughter, Lydia. Daniel grew up on the outskirts of a small town in Northw...ver maisDaniel E.Wilson is the senior pastor of Plainview Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He and his wife Ginny have one daughter, Lydia. Daniel grew up on the outskirts of a small town in Northwest Arkansas, Siloam Springs, where he and his four siblings enjoyed the breathtaking foothills of the Ozark Mountains. Daniel graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Animal Science only to find that he would pursue a MDiv and then PhD at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Eventually, Daniel graduated with his PhD in 2005. His dissertation, A Comparison of Irenaeus’ and Athanasius’ Respective Descriptions of Deification in Relation to Adolf Harnack’s History of Dogma, is a culmination of his doctoral studies regarding the doctrine of deification in the Patristic period of the church.ver menos