GREGORY A. WILLS
BOYCE COLLEGE COURSES
BL 342 History of the Bible
HS 201 Introduction to Church History I
SBTS COURSES
25100 Introduction to Church History I
25177 Studies in Church History: The Crusades
27077 Studies in Biblical and Systematic Theology: Dispensational and Covenantal Theology
MARK T. COPPENGER
BOYCE COLLEGE COURSES
BL 211 Hermeneutics
TH 315 Topics in Theology: History and Religion of Islam
SBTS COURSES
29250 Survey of Christian Ethics
29740 Church-State Relations
29720 Christian Ethical Perspectives on War and Peace
28915 Aesthetics
29580 Christian Ethics and the Environment
32985 History and Religion of Islam
RAY VAN NESTE
BOYCE COLLEGE COURSES
BL 151 New Testament Survey I
BL 152 New Testament Survey II
BL 485 Issues in NT Studies: Theology of the New Testament
BL 352 Interpreting the Gospel of Mark
BL 455 Interpreting Revelation
TH 315 Topics in Theology: The Christian and the Law
TH 315 Topics in Theology: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ
SBTS COURSES
22200 New Testament Survey I
22220 New Testament Survey II
27820 Theology of the New Testament
27177 Studies in Theology: The Christian and the Law
23790 The Revelation of John
22920 The Gospel of Mark
27077 Issues in Biblical & Systematic Theology: Dispensational and Covenantal Theology
37400 The Doctrine of the Person of Christ
FACULTY BIOS
Gregory A. Wills
Professor of Church History (1997); Associate Dean, Theology and Tradition; Vice President for Research and Assessment; Director, Center for the Study of the Southern Baptist Convention
Dr. Wills was appointed to the faculty of Southern Seminary in 1997 after serving since 1994 as Archives and Special Collections Librarian with the seminary’s Boyce Centennial Library. Dr. Wills’s 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 also written Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009.
Mark T. Coppenger
Vice President for Extension Eduction; Director of the Nashville Extension Center; Professor of Christian Apologetics (2004)
In addition to teaching at Southern Seminary, Dr. Coppenger is managing editor of the online Kairos Journal. Before attending seminary, he taught at Wheaton and Vanderbilt, where he directed a project for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has authored, edited, or contributed to numerous books. His articles and reviews have appeared in Teaching Philosophy, Touchstone, American Spectator, Criswell Review, Reformation and Revival, USA Today, and Christian Scholar’s Review. Dr. Coppenger has served as pastor of First Baptist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas; executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana; chairman of the SBC Resolutions Committee; president of Midwestern Seminary; and short-term mission volunteer to Brazil, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Egypt, and Sudan. He is a retired infantry officer.
Ray Van Neste
Professor of Biblical Studies; Director of the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University
Dr. Van Neste earned his Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen and has been teaching at Union since 2001. His published books include Cohesion and Structure of the Pastoral Epistles (T&T Clark, 2005), New Testament Theology in Light of the Church’s Mission: Essays in Honor of I. Howard Marshall (edited along with Jon Laansma and Grant Osborne; Paternoster, 2011), Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship (edited with Richard Wells; B&H, 2012), and KJV400: The Legacy and Impact of the King James Version (edited; Borderstone, 2012). He also wrote the study notes for 1-2 Timothy and Titus for the ESV Study Bible and for the HCSB Study Bible.
