2025 Dockery Lecture: Eric Smith
March 20, 2025
Title: "A Southern Baptist Centennial: the Birth of the Baptist Faith and Message and the Cooperative Program at the 1925 SBC"
- 3:30 p.m. — Grant Events Center
- 6:30 p.m. — Grant Events Center
Free and Open to the Public
Afternoon Lecture
Evening Lecture
Eric Smith
Associate Professor of Church History, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church, Savannah, Tenn.
Biography
Eric C. Smith (UU '08) is the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, and Associate Professor of Church History at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of four books related to Baptist history: Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Eighteenth-Century Regular Baptists of South Carolina (USC Press, 2018); Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020); John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America (OUP, 2022); and the forthcoming Between Worlds: John A. Broadus and the Prospects of the New South (LSU Press). He and his wife, Candace, are both Union University alumni (class of 2008), and they have three children.
History of the Dockery Lecture Series
The David and Lanese Dockery Lectures on Baptist Thought and Heritage, named for former Union President David S. Dockery and First Lady Lanese Dockery, is an annual event designed to examine the importance of the Baptist heritage, the distinctives of Baptist thought and the influence of the Christian intellectual tradition.
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