Academics


 

Gregory A. Wills

Professor of Church History (1997); Director of the Center for the Study of the Southern Baptist Convention

E-mail: gwills@sbts.edu

Education:

  • B.S., Duke University
  • M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
  • Th.M., Duke University
  • Ph.D., Emory University

Dr. Wills was appointed to the faculty of Southern Seminary in 1997 after serving since 1994 as Archives and Special Collections Librarian with the seminary's Boyce Centennial Library. Dr. Wills' dissertation, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900, was published by Oxford University Press. Besides contributions to theological journals, Dr. Wills has authored entries on Basil Manly, Jr. and Jesse Mercer in the American National Biography.