History
Session 6 – John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Battle for Calvin in Later Seventeenth Century England
Session 5 – A Double-Edged Sword: Marriage as a Hindrance and Helper to the Pastor’s Piety in Richard Baxter
Session 4 – “…and yet be loth to die? Death and Dying in the Theologies of John Owen and Richard Baxter”
Session 3 – By the Compass of the World: The Life and Piety of William Kiffen (1616-1701)
Session 2 – Becoming John Owen: A Puritan Among Evangelicals
Session 1 – As a Dying Man to Dying Men: The Life and Ministry of Richard Baxter
‘A poore under-rower’: The life and ministry of John Owen
Charles II once asked one of the most learned scholars that he knew why any intelligent person should waste time listening to the sermons of an uneducated tinker and Baptist preacher by the name of John Bunyan. “Could I possess the tinker’s abilities for preaching, please your majesty,” replied the scholar, “I would gladly relinquish…
Mohler on new academic year, opportunities for students
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what follows, SBTS President R. Albert Mohler Jr. discusses the 2016-17 academic year with Towers editor S. Craig Sanders. CS: Going into the 24th year of your presidency, what are you most thankful for? RAM: I’m most thankful that as we look across the landscape of theological education and even Christian…
Towers | September 2016
3 things John Calvin teaches us about writing
Theology is about God, and that’s precisely what Calvin intended to write about.
Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is Settled in Heaven: The Unchanging Word in an Age of Mega-Change
Editorial: Reflections on the Significance of Biblical Theology
In recent years, “biblical theology” as a discipline has grown in evangelical theology which has resulted in positive results. However, there are still differences in regard to its definition and why it is important. Since this issue of SBJT is devoted to the larger topic of biblical theology and various themes within it, it may…
Sampey’s Summers in Rio: ‘A passion for winning the unsaved to faith’
Having joined the Southern Seminary faculty in 1887 as assistant professor of Hebrew, Greek, and homiletics, John R. Sampey served the institution until his death in 1946, a few weeks shy of his 83rd birthday. His long tenure at SBTS also entailed nearly 13 years as the seminary’s fifth president, during which time…
The Ark Encounter rises above a storm of skepticism
Perched on the hills of northern Kentucky, in a town whose population is smaller than the enrollment of Southern Seminary, is a life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark, in the truest sense a monument of biblical proportions. Using a 20.4-inch cubit, the Ark Encounter measures 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 91.5 feet high —…
The Broadman Bible Commentary Controversy: From Genesis to the Conservative Resurgence
In 1969, the publication of the first volume of the Broadman Bible Commentary created doctrinal controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention. Because the denomination’s Sunday School Board published the commentary, the book was widely read by many Baptist pastors and laypeople. Theologically conservative Baptists objected to the Genesis commentary by British author G. Henton Davies, who applied higher-critical methodology…
Table of Contents (Winter 2015)
Editorial: Remembering the Reformation by Reflecting on its Solas
Read Full Journal Next year the Church will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Historians usually date the start of the Reformation to the 1517 publication of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses.” On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk, posted his theses on a church door in the university town of…