Dockery Lecture Series
2019 - Gregory A. Wills
Gregory A. Wills, David T. Porter Professor of Church History, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Gregory A. Wills was appointed to the faculty of Southern Seminary in 1997 after having previously served as archives and special collections librarian with the seminary's James P. Boyce Centennial Library since 1994. 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, Wills has also written Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009, also published by Oxford. Wills served as the Dean of the School of Theology from 2013-2018.
February 21, 2019
Theme: "Conflict and Collaboration: Baptists, the Church, and American Culture"
- 3:30 p.m. - Harvey Auditorium
"Individualism and Church Discipline" - 7 p.m. - Grant Events Center
"The Church and Slavery"
Free and Open to the Public