Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Modern history (1950s–present)=== In 1951, Duke McCall became the President of Southern. Under McCall's leadership. the School of Religious Education was established to prepare students for Christian education. Three academic schools were organized: School of Religious Education, School of Theology, and the School of Music. A chair in evangelism was dedicated to the American evangelist [[Billy Graham]] in 1966. Southern began to offer the [[Doctor of Ministry]] (D.Min.) program in 1970. Enrollment under McCall reached an estimated 1,500 students. [[Boyce College]] (known as Boyce Bible College at the time) was established as an adult education program in 1974. McCall retired in 1981 and his legacy has drawn praise and controversy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SBTS – Tension: 1950–1981 |url=https://archives.sbts.edu/the-history-of-the-sbts/our-story/tension-1950-1981/ |access-date=2020-06-16 |website=archives.sbts.edu}}</ref> Roy Honeycutt succeeded McCall as the 8th President of Southern in 1981. Under his leadership, the seminary opened the Carver School of Church Social Work and reached an all-time peak in enrollment of students in 1986. Honeycutt also oversaw the leadership of the seminary during a tumultuous time within the Southern Baptist Convention, now known as the [[Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence]]. After the election of [[Adrian Rogers]] as the President of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], the school began to slowly return to its traditional theological positions such as the inerrancy of Scripture. Honeycutt retired in 1992. The seminary Board of Trustee's then elected [[Albert Mohler|R. Albert Mohler]] as the 9th President of Southern in 1993. Under Mohler's leadership, every member of the faculty was required to sign the confession of the seminary known as the "Abstract of Principles" and the "Baptist Faith and Message". They were also required to believe that the Bible is without any error. Boyce Bible College, then an adult education program, was reorganized and established as an undergraduate college.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SBTS – Resurgence: 1993–Present |url=https://archives.sbts.edu/the-history-of-the-sbts/our-story/resurgence-1993-present/ |access-date=2020-06-16 |website=archives.sbts.edu}}</ref> In 2017, the seminary experienced the largest enrollment of students ever in the school's history with over 5,000 students enrolled.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2016–2017 President's Report – The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |url=https://www.sbts.edu/president/2016-2017-presidents-report/ |access-date=2020-06-16 |website=SBTS |language=en-US}}</ref> For the year 2021–2022, it had 4,448 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Student Population and Demographics |url=https://www.univstats.com/colleges/the-southern-baptist-theological-seminary/student-population/ |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=Univstats |language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page