American Decades
Mouler, R. Albert, Jr. 1959-
PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN BAPTIST
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Florida Roots.
A native of Lakeland, Florida, R. Albert Mohler Jr. attended Florida Atlantic University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1980. He earned a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D (in systematic and historical theology) from Southern Seminary, during which time he served on then President Roy Lee Honneycutt's staff.
Holy War.
When in 1993 the trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in Louisville, Kentucky, elected thirty-three-year-old R. Albert Mohler Jr. to the presidency of the oldest seminary of the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, they signaled an end to the twenty-year struggle by conservatives to control the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and its institutions. Mohler's predecessor had called the struggle a "holy war" and had fought to maintain the...
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