Journal: Journal for Baptist Theology & Ministry
Volume: JBTM 19:2 (Fall 2022)
Article: Editorial Introduction
Author: Adam Harwood

Editorial Introduction

Adam Harwood

Adam Harwood is professor of theology, occupying the McFarland Chair of Theology; divisional associate dean of Theological & Historical Studies; director of the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry; and editor, Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

It has been a personal pleasure and professional honor to serve as director of the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry and editor of JBTM since the Fall of 2013. I built on the solid theological and financial foundation established by my predecessors. Dr. Stan Norman founded the Baptist Center and JBTM. Dr. Steve Lemke ably led the Baptist Center and JBTM from 2007–2012, while serving as provost and professor at NOBTS.

The Baptist Center hosted various events on campus in recent years. In October 2014, we hosted a group of translators and scholars to address the topic of Bible Translation as Missions. Revisions of the presentations were published in the Spring 2015 issue of JBTM. Also, two other journal issues were revised and published under the title Anyone Can Be Saved: A Defense of “Traditional” Southern Baptist Soteriology (Wipf & Stock, 2016). Presentations from another Baptist Center event hosted on campus were revised and later published under the title, Infants and Children in the Church: Five Views on Theology & Ministry (B&H Academic, 2017).

Issues of JBTM are peer-reviewed and available for free online. In addition, every issue since 2003 has been cataloged in the ATLA Religion Database. Thus, the articles and book reviews are accessible to students and researchers worldwide. Some issues of JBTM focused on particular themes, such as the Gospel & Evangelism (Fall 2014), Preaching the Bible (Fall 2016 & Spring 2017); and Complementarianism (Fall 2020). In addition, we also published several unthemed issues which featured articles from scholars representing dozens of institutions in the fields of biblical studies, historical theology, systematic theology, apologetics,

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preaching, pastoral ministry, worship, social work, evangelism, missions, and Christian education.

Five individuals served on the Editorial Advisory Board from the Fall of 2013 to the present:

Bart Barber, PhD, First Baptist Church of Farmersville, Texas

Rex Butler, PhD, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Nathan Finn, PhD, North Greenville University

Eric Hankins, PhD, First Baptist Fairhope, Fairhope, Alabama

Malcolm Yarnell, DPhil, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

I am grateful for their counsel, suggestions, contr...