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James Leo Garrett, Jr.
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Distinguished Professor of Theology Emeritus at Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Baylor
University (1945), a B.D. from Southwestern Baptist Seminary (1948), a
Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1949), a Th.D. from
Southwestern Baptist Seminary (1954), and a Ph.D. from Harvard
University (1966). He has also studied at the Catholic University of
America, the University of Oxford, St. John's University, and Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School. He has taught at both Baylor University and
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and was a visiting professor
at the Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also lectured in
Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Romania, the Ukraine, and at numerous
U.S. schools.
He has been author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of a dozen books,
including Baptist Church Discipline (Broadman Press, 1962), Baptists
and Roman Catholicism (Broadman Press, 1965), and We Baptists
(Providence House, 1999). He has also contributed articles to twenty-one
other books and has published hundreds of journal and encyclopedia
articles and book reviews.
He has been a pastor or interim pastor at a number of Baptist
churches. Among other activities, he has also served as the chairman of
the Commission on Cooperative Christianity of the Baptist World
Alliance, was an official guest at the Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity during Vatican Council II, was secretary of the
Commission on Human Rights of the Baptist World Alliance, is a former
managing editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology, and is a
former editor of the Journal of Church and State. He is currently
co-chairman of the Division of Study and Research of the Baptist World
Alliance.
Professor Garrett has three sons and lives with his wife, Myrta Ann,
in Fort Worth.
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