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Scott Miller Gibson (born April 28, 1957) is an American pastor, theologian, and educator who currently serves as a professor of preaching, is the holder of the David E. Garland Chair in preaching, and is director of the Ph.D. in Preaching Program at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He was previously the Haddon W. Robinson Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1991-2018). Gibson is an author, lecturer, preacher, and conference speaker specializing in homiletics.[1]
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Scott M. Gibson | |
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Born | New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States | April 28, 1957
Occupation | Professor of Preaching |
Known for | Academic, Teaching Preaching |
Board member of | Evangelical Homiletics Society |
Spouse | Rhonda Lynn Aiken |
Academic background | |
Education | Pennsylvania State University, Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, University of Toronto, University of Oxford |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Adoniram Judson Gordon, D.D. (1836-1895) Pastor, Premillennialist, Moderate Calvinist, and Missionary Statesman |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Preaching/ Homiletics |
Institutions | Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Baylor University |
Gibson was born on April 28, 1957, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, to Bob and Jean Gibson.[2]
He attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree. He earned several Master's degrees in theology and divinity from Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Toronto. He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford.[3]
Gibson taught preaching at Gordon–Conwell from 1991 until 2018 when he joined Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary as the holder of the David E. Garland Chair of Preaching and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Preaching.[4][5]
Gibson was co-founder, with Keith Willhite of Dallas Seminary, of the Evangelical Homiletics Society (EHS), in 1997.[6] He has served as founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society since 2000.[5][7]
In 2018 Dr. Gibson was honored with a Festschrift edited by Matthew D. Kim, No Program but Time, No Book but the Bible: Reflections on Mentoring and Discipleship in Honor of Scott M. Gibson (Eugene: Wipf and Stock). ISBN 978-1-5326-5285-1.[citation needed]
Gibson married Rhonda Lynn Aiken (b. 1965) of New Castle, Pennsylvania, on 15 December 2000.[5]
Gibson has pastored churches in Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts.[6]
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