Joshua A. Waggener
Joshua A. Waggener
Professor of Church Music and Worship
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Durham University (UK)
- MC.M., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
- M.M., University of Georgia
- B.M., Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
Dr. Waggener serves as professor of church music and worship in the School of Church Music and Worship. Prior to his service at Southwestern, Dr. Waggener taught at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and was pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Wake Forrest, NC. He is the author of several book chapters and articles on the relationship between music and theology. He has presented his research at conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Waggener is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, The Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, and the American Musicological society.
He is married to Jessica, and they have three children: Samuel, Grace, Helen.
Meet Joshua Waggener
When Joshua Waggener, professor of church music and worship in the School of Church Music and Worship (SCMW) at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2014, it took him five years and numerous trips “across the pond,” he said, to graduate from Durham University in England.
Now, as the coordinator of the SCMW Ph.D. program since August, he is helping students achieve their terminal degrees online, without disrupting their jobs and displacing their families.