Alan Culpepper Heads
Mercer School Of Theology
The Macon Telegraph
Tuesday, June 20, 1995
Section: B; Page: 1
 A professor from Baylor University will
serve as dean of Mercer University's new School of Theology, Mercer's president announced
Monday.
Richard Alan Culpepper will take the post July 1.
The new school, slated to open in the fall of 1996, will be located on Mercer's Cecil
B. Day campus in Atlanta.
"We are pleased and fortunate to have such an internationally recognized scholar and
teacher lead the school at this formative stage," Mercer President R. Kirby Godsey said
in a release.
Before joining Baylor's faculty in 1991, Culpepper served as an assistant professor at
the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He was also the James
Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the seminary.
He holds a doctorate from Duke University, a master of divinity degree from Southern
Seminary and a bachelor's degree from Baylor, where he graduated cum laude.
Culpepper has served as a visiting professor at the Vanderbilt University Divinity
School. He was pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Madison, Ind., from 1968 to 1970.
He also has written five books and numerous journal articles. "My dream is that the
Mercer School of Theology will offer Baptists in Georgia and the Southeast the finest
preparation for ministry available anywhere,"
Culpepper said.
"It will have a distinguished faculty that is dedicated to preparing students for
ministry well into the next millennium and to perpetuating the historic convictions that
have defined what it means to be Baptist."
Ancestry: Alan Culpepper is the brother of Larry
Culpepper, MD, and the son of Theologian Dr. Hugo H.
Culpepper, son of John Hurlston Culpepper, son of John Francis Culpepper, son of John Malcolm Culpepper, son of
William Henry Culpepper, son of John and Nancy Gillespie Culpepper. Also see his
listing in the Who's Who section.
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