Eric C. Smith

Associate Professor of Church History

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Dr. Smith serves as Associate Professor of Church History. He came to Southern Seminary in 2022 after several years of adjunct work for the school. He has served in pastoral ministry since 2008, and has been the senior pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, Tennessee, since 2013. He is married to Candace and has three children.

Books

John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America (OUP, 2022)

Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America (OUP, 2020)

Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Eighteenth-Century Regular Baptists of South Carolina (USC Press, 2018)

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