Mohler Get's a New Chair

Congratulations to Al Mohler, President of Southern Seminary, for being appointed to an historic position.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s board of trustees has elected President R. Albert Mohler Jr. to the Joseph Emerson Brown Chair of Christian Theology.

The chair has been held by other giants on the landscape of Southern Seminary’s history such as founding President James Pettigru Boyce and E.Y. Mullins, seminary president from 1899 to 1928. Mohler was elected the seminary’s ninth president in 1993.

“It is an historic chair in systematic theology and we believe an historic president like Dr. Mohler deserves to be teaching from this chair,” said Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration, said after the seminary trustee action April 26. “This will be a great and momentous act in Southern Seminary history.”

Mohler responds...

“This means more than I can say,” Mohler said of the trustee action. “Especially with Dr. Boyce and Dr. Mullins holding that chair during their presidencies, it is an historical connection that speaks to my heart and to the sense of calling.

“It also is a reminder that the Lord has used significant individuals [such as Brown] to make this institution what it is. Some of these names are inscribed on buildings, some are memorialized in scholarship and professorships, and it is easy for us to forget what they meant and who they were.”

Read the entire Baptist Press article.

Comments

[Tim]

See, now you got me all excited. I thought they'd made him the next Pope! Oh well, this is probably for the better. :)

[Amy]

As a Southern Seminary Alumna, I react to news about the school in about the same manner as Anakin Skywalker's loved ones would react to Darth Vader.

[Amy]

I should clarify- I graduated in 1992.