Jerry Faught

Dickinson Associate Professor of Religion

Owens Hall 105
405.878.2218

OBU Box 61261
500 W. University
Shawnee, OK 74804


Dr. Jerry Faught has published many articles and book chapters including "Isaac McCoy: Successful Missionary or Successful Humanitarian?" and "The Biblical Theology of Herschel H. Hobbs: An Exposition of the Southern Baptist Grass Roots Via Media." His recent projects include a chapter on Independent Baptists in The Baptist River: One Stream, Many Tributaries, published by Mercer Press in 2006 and a chapter entitled "The Downgrade Controversy," in Turning Points in Baptist History, published by Mercer Press in 2008. He is currently working on a biography of Herschel H. Hobbs entitled Where the Grass Roots Grow. Dr. Faught presents papers frequently at academic meetings, most recently in January 2009 at the American Society of Church History meeting in New York City. In 2006 he delivered a series of lectures on Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism to the students at the Baptist Seminary in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Faught has received the Baptist Heritage Sermon Award from the BGCO for 1997 and the Norman W. Cox Award for Writing the Best Article Published by the Southern Baptist Historical Society in 1999. He was chaplain at Integris Baptist Hospital from 1996-2000. At OBU, Dr. Faught acts as the Zeta Pi Lambda faculty sponsor and has also sponsored the Ministerial Alliance for many years. He teaches a senior adult Sunday school class at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City and often writes Sunday School lessons for Lifeway. He is married to Kelly Owens Faught, an OBU graduate and Principal at Charles Haskell Elementary in Edmond. They have two daughters, Lindsey, a 2009 OBU graduate, and Lexi, who is a sophomore at OBU.

Educational Background:
B.A., Oklahoma Baptist University
M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Baylor University
Dissertation: “The Genesis Controversies: Denominational Compromise and the Resurgence and Expansion of Fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Convention”

Courses Taught:
REL 1013: Old Testament
REL 1023: New Testament
REL 3563: Baptist History and Theology
REL 2533: History of Christianity: Early and Medieval
REL 2543: History of Christianity: Reformation and Modern
REL 3423: World Religions

Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:

Selected Publications
Sunday School Lessons for Lifeway's Explore the Bible: Adult Learner Guide: Genesis 1-27 for Winter 2007-2008.
Sunday School lessons on Isaiah for Lifeway's Bible Book Series to appear in March-May 2006.
Where The Grass Roots Grow: A Biography of Herschel H. Hobbs. Work in Progress.
“Baptists” in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains 2004.
“Isaac McCoy: Successful Missionary or Successful Humanitarian?” American Baptist Quarterly March 2004.
“Round Two, Volume One: The Broadman Commentary Controversy.” Baptist History and Heritage Journal Winter 2003.

Professional Memberships
President of the Baptist History and Heritage Society
Chair of the Editorial Board of the Baptist History and Heritage Journal

Honors Theses Directed
Chris Gore (2003), "Fundamental Rebirth: Calvinism's Rise in Southern Baptist Institutions"
Zach Ward (2004) African-American Liberation Theology: What James Cone Has to Say to White Christianity
Justin White (2007), "Hell in Translation: A Philological Exposition of Select References to Hell in the New Testament"