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Mark T. Coppenger, Ph.D.

Mark T. Coppenger, Ph.D.

Professor of Christian Apologetics — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville

Dr. Mark T. Coppenger, Professor of Christian Apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, also is managing editor of the online Kairos Journal, the source of the articles in the NKJV Unapologetic Study Bible. He has been executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana; founding editor of SBC Life, the journal of the Southern Baptist Convention; and president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt and a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before attending seminary, he taught at Wheaton and Vanderbilt, where he directed a project for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has written, edited or contributed to numerous books. His articles and reviews have appeared in Teaching Philosophy, Touchstone, American Spectator, Criswell Review, Reformation and Revival, Themelios, Providence, USA Today and Christian Scholar’s Review. Dr. Coppenger has served as pastor of First Baptist Church of El Dorado, Arkansas; chairman of the SBC Resolutions Committee; and a short-term mission volunteer to Brazil, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Egypt and Sudan. He is a retired infantry officer.

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