The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Paul Brewster

Paul Brewster is pastor of Rykers Ridge Baptist Church in Madison, Indiana, and also writes for Baptist Press. He holds degrees from the University of Arkansas (B.A.), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Ph.D.). Brewster and his wife have four children. Brewster is the author of Andrew Fuller: Model Pastor-Theologian (B&H Academic, 2010).

Anthony Cross 

Anthony Cross is the director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.  He has lectured widely in church history, theology and Baptist history, and written, co-authored and edited a dozen volumes, and published numerous chapters and articles in books and journals. He specializes in Baptist history and theology, with a specific interest in the theology and practice of baptism and evangelical sacramentalism. Since 2000 he has been a Consultant for Paternoster and their six academic monograph series, and he conceived and developed Paternoster’s Studies in Baptist History and Thought series, for which he is co-ordinating editor. 

Maurice Dowling

Maurice Dowling teaches Old Testament, Church History and Christian Doctrine at the Irish Baptist College where he has lectured for over 35 years. Dowling also serves as the Chair of the Theology Education Committee of the Institute of Theology at Queen’s University in Belfast. Maurice has an extensive knowledge of European languages which he utilizes as he travels regularly to Eastern Europe, teaching and preaching. 

Nathan Finn

Nathan Finnis Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Nathan has been married to Leah, a homemaker, since 2001. They are the parents of Georgia (born 2006), Baxter (born 2008), and Eleanor Ruth (born 2011). The Finns are members of the First Baptist Church of Durham, where Nathan currently teaches Sunday School and serves as a deacon. Finn has contributed to several volumes and along with Keith Harper co-edited the volume Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution (Mercer, 2008).

James Fuller

James Fuller is Associate History Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of Indianapolis. A past president of the Indiana Association of Historians, Dr. Fuller currently serves as the chair of the Indiana Council for History Education. Dr. Fuller has published five books, including Chaplain to the Confederacy (2000) and Soldiers of Christ (2009). His primary research interest is early and mid-nineteenth century America, especially the Civil War and evangelical Protestant Christianity. Among his current research projects is a biography of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s Civil War governor. 

Keith Harper

Keith Harper earned a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Kentucky. He now serves as professor of Church History at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the author of Send the Light: Lottie Moon’s Letters and Other Writings (Mercer University Press) and Rescue the Perishing: Selected Correspondence of Annie W. Armstrong (Mercer University Press) and is the co-editor of Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution (Mercer, 2008). Harper also serves as editor of the online Journal of Baptist Studies.

Larry Kreitzer

Larry Kreitzer is a Fellow at Regent’s Park College where he has been based since 1986; he is also the Tutor for Graduate Admissions at the college. In addition, Kreitzer holds a Research Lectureship within the Faculty of Theology, and has served as the Lecturer in New Testament at Oriel College, Oxford since 1990. He is a member of the Society of New Testament Studies and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. He is married to Dr. Deborah W. Rooke, a Tutor of Old Testament who is an Associate Member of the Theology Faculty. He has published extensively on 17th-century Baptists, including the two-volume ‘Seditious Sectaryes’: The Baptist Conventiclers of Oxford, 1641-1691 (2006).

Robert Linder

Robert Linder of History at Kansas State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1963. His classes taught at KSU include a History of Modern Christianity from the Reformation to the Present and a History of Religion and Politics in Europe, Australia and the United States. Linder is the author of The Long Tragedy: Australian Evangelical Christians and the Great War, 1914-1918 (Openbook Publishers, 2000), The Reformation Era (Greenwood Press, 2008), and The History of the Church (rev. ed., Angus Hudson LTD, 2002).

Thomas J. Nettles

Thomas J. Nettles is Professor of Historical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He received his Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has served on staff at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  A noted expert in Baptist history, Nettles has written By His Grace and For His Glory (revised by Founders Press), the three part series, The Baptists (Christian Focus), and has recently completed a magisterial biography of Southern Seminary’s founding president, James Petigru Boyce:  A Southern Baptist Statesman (P&R, 2009).

George C. Rable  

George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He earned his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1978.  His Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) was the winner of the Lincoln Prize from the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Southern History Award. His most recent volume is titled God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Rable has served as the President of the Society of Civil War Historians (2004-2006) and is currently on their Advisory Board.

Gregory A. Wills

Gregory A. Wills (Ph.D. Emory) serves at Southern Seminary as Professor of Church History; Associate Dean of the Theology and Tradition department; and Director of the Center for the Study of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Dr. Wills’ dissertation, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900, was published by Oxford University Press. Besides contributions to theological journals, Dr. Wills has authored entries on Basil Manly, Jr., and Jesse Mercer in the American National Biography, and has recently published a history of SBTS, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 (Oxford, 2009).