Name: R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Why you should know him: Oft-quoted for his views on cultural and religious issues. Time.com called Dr. Mohler the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.”
Denomination: Southern Baptist
Position: President and Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary—the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world; Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Previous: Editor of The Christian Index; Associate Editor of Preaching; Host of “The Albert Mohler Program,” a daily radio show distributed nationwide by Salem Communications.
Education:
B.A. Samford University
M. Div. Southern Seminary
PhD Southern Seminary (in systematic and historical theology)
Postgraduate study/research at the St. Meinrad School of Theology and Oxford University (England)
Area of expertise/interest: Evangelical theology; Southern Baptist doctrine; cultural issues
Books: Published five books, including Atheism Remixed; contributed chapters to several books including Here We Stand: A Call From Confessing Evangelicals and The Coming Evangelical Crisis.
Other writings: The Washington Post’s On Faith religion column; maintains a blog at AlbertMohler.com.
Assessment: Dr. Mohler is a prime example of the type of evangelical leader who has a profound impact on our country while remaining relatively unknown outside of Christian circles. He was one of the key figures in the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention, a monumental change that affected the largest Protestant denomination in America.
As bold as he is intelligent, Mohler often takes positions that are politically incorrect (e.g., his claim that Jews and Muslims dont worship the “same God” as Christians) or that would raise the eyebrows of his fellow Baptists (i.e., his view that couple who choose “deliberate childlessness” are in violation of God’s moral order). He is also an ridiculously prolific writer, producing a quality article on culture and society for his blog almost every weekday.
Anyone who wants to know the direction that conservative evangelicalism will take in America would do well to keep track of this influential theologian.
October 5th, 2010 | 12:34 pm | #1
Albert Mohler is terrific.
Calvinist
Complementarian
Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy Inerrantist
Creationist who’s against Theistic Evolution
Christ-follower
October 5th, 2010 | 1:41 pm | #2
Three out of five ain’t bad.
October 5th, 2010 | 2:26 pm | #3
5 out of 5 are Biblical and Glorifying to God.
October 6th, 2010 | 10:20 am | #4
Orthodoxdj,
I know that you dislike Calvinism. What’s the other “C” that Mohler upholds that you don’t like?
October 6th, 2010 | 11:06 am | #5
Former Evangel co-blogger Justin Tayler has just written a post titled
Responses to the CT Cover Story on Mohler.
October 6th, 2010 | 11:38 am | #6
I think it’s fine to reject theistic evolution, but not on Biblical grounds.
October 6th, 2010 | 1:20 pm | #7
I was saved as a Southern Baptist, so I praise God for men like Mohler, who have done yeoman’s work in getting that fine denomination concerned with basic biblical morality — the day-to-day stuff of godly wisdom and how to live life. “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only”.
As for his low view of common grace and his ignorance about science, well, God will straighten him out in due time. Just like Moses or Josiah, every godly prophet or leader will have some fatal flaw in their thinking. I expect no more from men like Mohler.
October 6th, 2010 | 1:44 pm | #8
Mairnéalach,
What do you mean by “low view of common grace”?
October 11th, 2010 | 10:17 pm | #9
Jake Meador, a blogger at “Notes from a Small Place,” has just written a terrific post that properly names Al Mohler a “fundamentalist” who wrongly demands unity among evangelicals on issues that are peculiar to the SBC. His post should be read as a counterweight to the “young, restless, reformed” defense of Mohler’s after the October cover story in Christianity Today:
“Al Mohler, Christianity Today, and Big Tent Evangelicalism”
http://notesfromasmallplace.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/al-mohler-c-and-big-tent-evangelicalism/
October 13th, 2010 | 1:25 pm | #10
Christopher Benson,
Did you enjoy your blog exchanges with Frank Turk on Evangel?
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