For those students interested in linguistics, Bible translation, biblical languages, semiotics, literary theory or a host of other related areas of study, Southeastern invites you to study biblical languages for the purpose of Bible translation. If you are interested in Bible translation, you will have the opportunity to study with the following faculty, as well as approximately 15 other faculty who teach in the biblical studies division.
Fred Williams (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Biblical Languages and Translation at Southeastern
The Southern Baptist Convention—Name that Denomination
By now you’ve probably read that SBC president Bryant Wright has appointed a task force to study the possibility of changing the name of the Southern Baptist Convention. Wright’s announcement has elicited a number of responses, ranging from elation to despair. Besides differing opinions about the possible name change itself, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not Wright’s task force violates Southern Baptist polity, the stated will of engaged Southern Baptists, or both. I … [Read More]
How One Baptist Denomination Addressed Their Name Change (Because of Their Church Planting Focus)
Southern Baptists are talking about a name change. The stated reason: to help church planting. Much research needs to be done, and a task force is in place to ask the right questions. Yet, perhaps two helpful questions are: has anyone had this question before and what did they do?
The Baptist General Convention is a conservative, evangelical denomination with, for a point of reference, well-known pastors like Leith Anderson and John Piper. (For more context, … [Read More]
Should the SBC change its name?
As we all know, an important announcement was made by SBC president Bryant Wright at the latest Executive Committee meeting in Nashville. Wright proposed that the SBC should explore the possibility of changing the denomination’s 166-year-old name. You can see a list of the exploratory task force members here. This has profound implications for the way we carry out Kingdom work in the United States and around the globe.
The stated reason was the belief that the name might hinder … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study English and Humanities at the College at Southeastern
The College at Southeastern offers a robust core curriculum which includes courses in English and the Humanities. One unique aspect of the college is its four required seminars in the History of Ideas. These seminars are capped at 15 students, and consist of reading 8-10 great books per semester, and writing 10 short papers and 2 long papers per semester. The authors covered include philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, etc.), theologians … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Pastoral Care and Counseling at Southeastern
The guiding foundation for Southeastern’s counseling program is that the Scriptures are sufficient for understanding people as spiritual, moral, relational and psychological beings. As such the program intends to prepare students to counsel from within the framework of a biblical anthropology, developing a biblical, God-related understanding of human problems, and implementing truthful, graceful, timely, relevant, and Christ-centered methods of problem solving and change (Ps. 1:1–2; Heb. 4:12–13).
For those students who seek a counseling track within … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study History at Southeastern
Christianity arose within human history and inevitably is set within the flux of history; and Christian theology and ministry are inevitably done within historical and cultural context. For this reason, Southeastern offers undergraduate courses in global history, Western history, and American history; and offers both undergraduate and graduate level courses in church history and Baptist history. In so doing, we provide students the opportunity to explore the place of Christian persons, institutions, ideas, and movements … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Christian Education and Leadership at Southeastern
If you had asked me fifteen years ago, I would have said that education courses make me go to sleep faster than a hamster swimming in a bucket of Thorazine. But that was fifteen years ago, and I hadn’t yet met Ken Coley, Larry Purcell, Gary Bredfeldt, Jim Porowski, and Greg Lawson who are professors of Education and Leadership at Southeastern. In fact, it was an encounter with Ken Coley that first made me aware … [Read More]
The Gospel and Baptist Identity Series
Over at my personal blog, Christian Thought & Tradition, I recently concluded a nine-part series titled The Gospel and Baptist Identity. In that series, I attempted to offer a constructive proposal about what I think is a healthy way to articulate Baptist identity in the early years of the twenty-first century. I received some helpful feedback, for which I’m very thankful. This is an expansion of what I’ve been teaching my Southeastern Seminary students for … [Read More]
An Invitation to Study Theology at Southeastern
“Knowing and loving God. This is the greatest thing bar none…. It is the work of theologians—and of all believers as they do theology—to serve God by discerning what is true about the most crucial issues of life. The task is to learn of God. The privilege is to love God passionately with the mind.” –David Clark
“Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it … [Read More]
