Meet Our Faculty
Completing a seminary degree is a challenging journey, but you will not make it alone. These men and women are committed not only to your academic success, but to your spiritual development and growth as a minister of the Gospel.
What’s more, our professors have years of experience in ministry, as well as in the academy, so you’ll be learning from men and women who’ve served in the very churches, ministries, and mission fields where you’re headed.
Meet the administration of Southwestern Seminary and Texas Baptist College here.
Southwestern Seminary professors are experienced:
- Lead Pastors
- Church Planters
- Worship Ministers
- Evangelists
- Scholars
- Missionaries
- Authors
- Children’s Ministers
- Ethicists
- Teachers
- All
- School of Church Music and Worship
- School of Educational Ministries
- School of Evangelism and Missions
- School of Theology
- Senior/Part-Time Faculty
- Southwestern Women
- Texas Baptist College
Ashley L. Allen
Assistant Professor of Women’s Ministries
Director of News and Information
D. Jeffrey Bingham
Research Professor of Historical Theology
Jesse Hendley Chair of Biblical Theology
Jill D. Botticelli
Instructor of History, Texas Baptist College
Director of Libraries and Archivist
Carl J. Bradford
Assistant Professor of Evangelism
Malcolm R. and Melba L. McDow Chair of Evangelism
Felix Cabrera
Assistant Professor of Christian Ministry
Associate Director of Hispanic Programs
Michael Copeland
Assistant Professor of Missions
Associate Director of the World Missions Center
Joseph R. Crider
Professor of Church Music and Worship
Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship
Amy L. Crider
Associate Professor of Foundations of Education
Director of the Southwestern Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Daniel M. Darling
Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Texas Baptist College
Director of Land Center for Cultural Engagement
David S. Dockery
Distinguished Professor of Theology
President
Director of the Dockery Center for Global Evangelical Theology
R. Adam Dodd
Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Backgrounds
Associate Vice President for Campus Technology
W. Madison Grace II
Associate Professor of Theology
Interim Dean of the School of Theology
Director of Oxford Study Program
Friedhelm Jung
Professor of Systematic Theology
Director of M.A. in Theology Program (Bonn, Germany Extension)
Karen P. Kennemur
Professor of Children’s Ministry
Bessie Fleming Chair of Childhood Education
Charles T. Lewis Jr
Professor of Church Music and Worship
Associate Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship
John D. Massey
Associate Professor of Missions
Dean of the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions
Charles F. Stanley Chair for the Advancement of Global Christianity
Shane W. Parker
Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Ministries
Associate Vice President for Online and Innovative Learning
Matt Queen
Professor of Evangelism
Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Administration
L.R. Scarborough Chair of Evangelism (“Chair of Fire”)
Dietmar W. Schulze
Associate Professor of Missions
Associate Director of the M.A. in Theology Program (Bonn, Germany Extension)
Chris Shirley
Professor of Educational Ministries
Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries
Jack D. and Barbara Terry Chair of Religious Education
Dean Sieberhagen
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Vernon D. and Jeannette Davidson Chair of Missions
Director of the Islamic Studies Program
Terri H. Stovall
Professor of Educational Ministries
Interim Associate Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries
Dean of Women
Jack D. Terry, Jr.
Senior Professor of Foundations of Education
Interim Vice President for Institutional Advancement
W. Michael Wilson
Senior Professor of Pastoral and Applied Ministry
Director of Applied Ministry
Hongyi Yang
Assistant Professor of World Christianity
Director of Chinese Language Programs