Roger Duke
Encyclopedia
Dr. Roger D. Duke is an author, theologian, educator, itinerant preacher, published scholar, and professor at several institutions of higher learning including: Union University
, Baptist College of Health Sciences
, Liberty University
, Memphis Theological Seminary
, and Columbia Evangelical Seminary. He serves as Senior Editor and Marketing Manager for BorderStone Press, LLC. Professor Duke also serves as a Consulting Editor for B & H Academic Studies in Baptist Life and Thought series.
, president of Union University
, on the life of John Broadus, who was a founding faculty member of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Charles Spurgeon
deemed Broadus the “greatest of living preachers.” Contributing authors include: Timothy George
, A. James Fuller, Thomas J. Nettles, Mark M. Overstreet, James Patterson, Richard Melick, Craig C. Christina, and Beecher L. Johnson.
Rev. Duke has just released a second volume on one of the other original founders of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-Basil Manly, Jr. It is entitled Soldiers of Christ. He collaborated with Michael AG Haykin and A. James Fuller on this project. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
wrote the foreword
. David Dockery
wrote “The introductory and biographical essays on the lives of Basil Manly, Sr., and Basil Manly, Jr., as well as the carefully selected collections from their writings found in this volume are wonderful and much-welcomed additions to Baptist studies. I am quite pleased to recommend Soldiers of Christ.”
Professor Duke has recently submitted, with Dr. Bob Agee
, a volume entitled: Reason for the Season: Ministerial Reflections on Grief, Suffering, and Loss to Founders Press. It is due out sometime in 2010.
Union University
Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...
, Baptist College of Health Sciences
Baptist College of Health Sciences
Baptist College of Health Sciences is a private, coeducational, specialized college in Memphis, Tennessee. It offers baccalaureate degrees in the following fields:*Diagnostic medical sonography*Health care management*Medical radiography*Nuclear medicine...
, Liberty University
Liberty University
Liberty University is a private Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Liberty's annual enrollment is around 72,000 students, 12,000 of whom are residential students and 60,000+ studying through Liberty University Online...
, Memphis Theological Seminary
Memphis Theological Seminary
Memphis Theological Seminary is an ecumenical theological seminary located in Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but accepts and trains ministerial candidates from other groups as well...
, and Columbia Evangelical Seminary. He serves as Senior Editor and Marketing Manager for BorderStone Press, LLC. Professor Duke also serves as a Consulting Editor for B & H Academic Studies in Baptist Life and Thought series.
Career
Duke recently co-edited a book with David DockeryDavid Dockery
David S. Dockery is the 15th president of Union University, which has been listed among the top tier institutions in the South each of the past thirteen years by U.S. News and World Report...
, president of Union University
Union University
Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...
, on the life of John Broadus, who was a founding faculty member of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a large British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers"...
deemed Broadus the “greatest of living preachers.” Contributing authors include: Timothy George
Timothy George
Timothy George is the dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University and has been the dean since the school's inception in 1988. George teaches church history and doctrine and serves as executive editor for Christianity Today...
, A. James Fuller, Thomas J. Nettles, Mark M. Overstreet, James Patterson, Richard Melick, Craig C. Christina, and Beecher L. Johnson.
Rev. Duke has just released a second volume on one of the other original founders of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-Basil Manly, Jr. It is entitled Soldiers of Christ. He collaborated with Michael AG Haykin and A. James Fuller on this project. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Mohler's approach to Muslims is driven by his belief in the relevance of the Christian Gospel to all people.-Media appearances:Mohler appeared on MSNBC's Donahue on August 20, 2002. The subject was Christian evangelization of Jews...
, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary , located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest of the six seminaries affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention . The seminary was founded in 1859, at Greenville, South Carolina. After being closed during the Civil War, it moved in 1877 to Louisville...
wrote the foreword
Foreword
A foreword is a piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story the book tells...
. David Dockery
David Dockery
David S. Dockery is the 15th president of Union University, which has been listed among the top tier institutions in the South each of the past thirteen years by U.S. News and World Report...
wrote “The introductory and biographical essays on the lives of Basil Manly, Sr., and Basil Manly, Jr., as well as the carefully selected collections from their writings found in this volume are wonderful and much-welcomed additions to Baptist studies. I am quite pleased to recommend Soldiers of Christ.”
Professor Duke has recently submitted, with Dr. Bob Agee
Bob Agee
Bob R. Agee was the thirteenth President of Oklahoma Baptist University from 1982 to 1998. He also served as the Executive Director for the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities from 1997 to 2007.-Biography:...
, a volume entitled: Reason for the Season: Ministerial Reflections on Grief, Suffering, and Loss to Founders Press. It is due out sometime in 2010.
Personal life
He and his wife, the former Katie Melinda (Linda) Young, have been married for 35 years. They have three grown children, two girls and one son. They worship at the South Woods Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee. Duke serves as the Chaplain for the Germantown (TN) Fire Department.Education
- Doctor of Ministry (D. M.), May 2003 The University of the South’s (Sewanee) School of Theology; Sewanee, Tennessee.
- Ph. D. (Studies), 1997-2000 Studied with John Angus Campbell, The University of MemphisUniversity of MemphisThe University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
, College of Communication w/Graduate Seminars in: Classical Rhetoric, Contemporary Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, The Rhetorical Tradition, Political Rhetoric, Rhetoriography, Movie & Media Criticism, Communication Theory, Teaching Communication in College, and Organizational Communication with an Emphasis in Feminist Issues
- Sustaining Pastoral Excellence (SPE): Fall 2004-Spring 2007. This was a three-year research & colleague grant program project funded by The (Eli) Lily Endowment. The program grant was administered through Memphis Theological Seminary. Through monthly ecumenical worship, colleague meetings, academic research, prayer retreats, personally introspection, et al we studied what it meant to practice excellence in ministry and how these applied to scholarship, piety, and justice.
- Master of Arts in Religion (M. A. R.), May 1996 Harding UniversityHarding UniversityHarding University is located in Searcy, Arkansas, in the United States, about north-east of Little Rock. It is a private liberal arts Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ. The university takes its name from James A...
Graduate School of Religion, Memphis, Tennessee. Major Concentration: Christian Thought/History of Christian Thought
- Master of Divinity (M. Div.), With Languages, May 1995, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KentuckyLouisville, KentuckyLouisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
; Major Concentration: Higher Education Track
- Professional Ministerial Studies, 1995, Memphis Theological SeminaryMemphis Theological SeminaryMemphis Theological Seminary is an ecumenical theological seminary located in Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but accepts and trains ministerial candidates from other groups as well...
, Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
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- Bachelor of Science, (B. Sc.), cum laude, May 1987, Crichton CollegeCrichton CollegeVictory University, formerly Crichton College, is a private for-profit Christian, liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.Victory University is a four-year, coeducational institution owned by California-based Significant Education...
, Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, Major: Humanities; Minor: Bible/History.
- Diploma of Theology (Associate of Divinity, A. Div.), May 1985, Mid-America Baptist Theological SeminaryMid-America Baptist Theological SeminaryMid-America Baptist Theological Seminary prepares students for vocational ministry. It provides associate, masters and doctorate theological degrees, and is accredited by The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools....
, Memphis, Tennessee. Majors: Theology & Pastoral Ministries
Books
- Duke, R., co-editor with Bob AgeeBob AgeeBob R. Agee was the thirteenth President of Oklahoma Baptist University from 1982 to 1998. He also served as the Executive Director for the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities from 1997 to 2007.-Biography:...
, Reason for the Season, Founders Press, August 30, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9785711-8-4
- Duke, R., co-editor with David S. Dockery, John Albert Broadus: A Living Legacy, B & H PublishingLifeWay Christian ResourcesLifeWay Christian Resources, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the largest providers of Christian resources in the world. LifeWay has been recognized as one of the "Best Employers in Tennessee" by BusinessTN magazine.-Background:...
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- Duke, R., Michael A.G. Haykin & A. James Fuller, “Soldiers of Christ”: The Piety of Basil Manly, Sr. and Basil Manly, Jr. Cape Corral, FL: Founders Publishers.
Other writings
- (Fall, 2009). “John A. Broadus, Rhetoric, and A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons.” Posted on the Baptist History Home Page at http://web.archive.org/web/20091028075702/http://www.geocities.com/baptist_documents/a-recent.documents.html.
- (Fall, 2009). “Perspicuity in the Preaching and Pietistic Thought of Basil Manly, Jr.” posted in manuscript form at the http://web.archive.org/web/20091026213355/http://geocities.com/baptist_documents/ web page.
- (Fall, 2009). “Perspicuity in the Preaching and Pietistic Thought of Basil Manly, Jr.” Audio of address posted on the Andrew Fuller Center for Biblical Spirituality of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Posted at http://www.andrewfullercenter.org/index.php/conference/baptist-spirituality-historical-perspectives-august-24-25-2009. Conference presentation also posted at http://sbcvoices.com/baptist-spirituality-conference-audio/
- (Summer, 2009). “Perspicuity in the Preaching and Pietistic Thought of Basil Manly, Jr.” Founders Journal 77, Can also be accessed at Founders.org.
- (May, 2009). “Whatever Happened to ‘The Fall?’” Gospel Witness, Publication of the Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto, Canada.
- (Fall 2008). “‘Compel Them to Come In’: Posture and Persuasion in the Preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.” Founders Journal 74. Can be accessed at http://www.founders.org/journal/fj74/article1.html.
- (Summer, 2008). “Studies in Philippians,” Bible Conference Presentation, Choteau Baptist Church, Choteau, Montana.
- (Fall, 2006). Book Review: Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics. By John Rogerson. New York: T & T Clark International, 2004. Submitted to Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society for the Fall 2006 publication.
- (Fall, 2004). “Some Thoughts on Theodicy.” Published on-line 12-1-04 at Columbia Evangelical Seminary Coffee Talks #96. Available: http://www.ces.edu.
- (Spring, 2004). “A Southern Baptist Looks at the Theology of James Cone: Or “Can a Southern Baptist Talk to a Liberation Theologian?” Published on-line 4-14-04 at Reformed Writings Journal. Available: http://reformedwritings. home.comcast.net/.
- (2003) Book review: The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and The Fall of Man. By J. Budziszewski. Dallas TX: Spence Publishing Co., 1999. Submitted to Perspectives in Religious Studies Journal on Jan. 1st, 2004 for publication in the Spring quarterly.
- (2003) Book review: Liberty and Justice for All: Racial Reform and the Social Gospel (1877–1925), The Rauschenbusch Lectures, New Series, II. By Ronald C.White, Jr. Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox, 2002. Submitted to Perspectives in Religious Studies Journal on Jan. 1st, 2004 for publication in the Spring quarterly.
- (2003). “John Bunyan’s Place in Spiritual Theology.” Published on-line 1-2-04 at Reformed Writings Journal. Available: http://reformedwritings.home.comcast.net/.
- (2003). “A Rhetorical Taxonomy of the Jubilee 2000 Papal Apology of John Paul II.” Dissertation presented to The University of the South’s (Sewanee) School of Theology. May, 2003.
- (2003). “A Rhetorical Analysis of Resolution No. 1: On Racial Reconciliation of the 150th Anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention at the June 1995 Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.” Published on-line 12-1-03 at Reformed Writings Journal. Available: http://reformedwritings.home.comcast.net/.
- (Summer, 2001). “The Theology of James Cone.” Seminar paper. Course P.T. 30, D. Min. Ministry Seminar. The University of the South’s School of Theology.
- (Fall, 1999). “A Short Contrast Between the Foundational Hermeneutic of Rabbinic Judaism and Evangelical Christianity.” Seminar paper. Contemporary Rhetoric, Ph. D. Seminar. The University of Memphis.
- (Fall, 1997). “Lee Atwater: Machiavellian or Gamemaker.” Seminar paper. Political Communication, Course 8013, Ph. D. Seminar. The University of Memphis.
- (Spring, 1997). “Is Euthanasia Always Wrong?” Seminar paper. Theory of Practical Reason, Course 7360, Ph. D. Seminar. The University of Memphis.