H. Leroy Metts

Leroy Metts

 

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office:  214-818-1335

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1976–present Professor of Greek and New Testament, Criswell College

Adjunct Professor of Greek and New Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

1974–1976 First Baptist Church of Hartsville, SC

1969–1972 Wilshire Terrace Baptist Church, Euless, TX

1964–1967 Direct Baptist Church, Sumner, TX

1964 Assistant Pastor & Youth Director:  Diamond Hill Baptist Church, Ft. Worth, TX

1962–1964 Perry Baptist Church, Perry, SC

Interim pastorates:
Pierpont Chapel, Charleston, SC
Gowansville Baptist, Greer, SC
First Baptist Church, Nevada, TX 
and others (a total of 15 interims)

Revivals, Bible Studies & Speaking Engagements:
Preached in over 300 churches in Southeastern & Southwestern part of United States; sent by World Evangelism on preaching missions in London, England & Melbourne, Australia

EDUCATION
1977 Ph.D., New Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Ft. Worth, TX; Thesis Topic: “New Testament Greek Sentence Structure:
A Traditional, Descriptive-Structural, and Transformational-Generative Study”

1967 M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX

1964 B.A., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

1962 A.A., North Greenville Junior College, Greenville County, SC 
 
1960  John’s Island High School, John’s Island, SC

Additional Study:  Ph.D. work in Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX
 
SCHOLARSHIP
Books:
“Discourse, Analysis and the Text-Driven Sermon,” in the Text Driven Sermon, ed. Ned Mathews,
Broadman Holman (forthcoming).

Publications:
Review of Handbook of New Testament Greek: An Inductive Approach based on the Greek Text of
Acts, by William Sanford LaSor. 2 Vols. Southwestern Journal of Theology 16 (Spring 1974): 95-96.

 “Regeneration and Justification,” in We Believe: Sermons on Baptist Doctrine, The Criswell Center for Biblical Studies Pisteuomen Series, vol. 1, pp. 59-66. Edited by Paige Patterson and Luis Pantoja. (Dallas: Criswell Publications, 1977).


“Death, Discipleship, & Discourse Strategies”: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 Once Again” Criswell Theological Review 4 (1989): 57-76.

“The Kingdom of God: Background and Development of a Complex Discourse Concept.” CTR, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2004):51-82.

Stewardship lessons for First Baptist Dallas, 1977.

Articles in Shophar, a publication of Criswell College:
“Roots of Redemption”    Matthew 1-3
“The Dawning of a New Age”   Matthew 4-5
“The Righteousness of the Kingdom” Matthew 6-7
“Jesus and the Disenfranchised”   Matthew 8-10
“The Presence of the Future”   Matthew 11-12
“The Mystery of the Kingdom”   Matthew 13
“Responding to Jesus”    Matthew 14-15
“The Kingdom’s Present Power”   Matthew 16-18
“The Triumphal Entry,”    Matthew 19-21
“Negative Sermons”   Matthew 22-23
“The Coming of God’s Kingdom”  Matthew 24-25
“The New Covenant”    Matthew 26
“The Resurrection Now”    Matthew 27-28
“The Beginning of the Gospel”   Mark 1-2
“Miracles and Faith”    Mark 3-5
“Kingdom Citizens”    Mark 6-7
“Who is This Man?’’     Mark 8-9
“A Ransom for Many”   Mark 10-11
“God’s Coinage”    Mark 12-13
“Not Imma, but Abba”   Mark 14-16
“The Name of Jesus”   Luke 1-2
“The Spirit without Fire”   Luke 3-4
“Living the Sermon”   Luke 5-6
“Jesus and Women”   Luke 7-8
“Cost-counting Discipleship”  Luke 9-10
“The Finger of God”   Luke 11-12
“Three Dimensional Judgment”  Luke 13-15
“Suffering Messiah–A Perplexing Problem” Luke 16-18
“The King Who Comes”   Luke 19-20
“The Fellowship of the Kingdom”  Luke 21-22
“The Christian Basis of Hope”  Luke 23-24

Graduate Seminars & Professional Papers:
 “The Geographical Expansion and Political Organization of the Roman Empire, 753BC–117AD”
“The Apocalypse of Paul”
“The Literature of Qumran: Its Value for Biblical and Theological Studies”
“Hellenistic Jewish Philosophy”
 “The Literary Form of Genesis 1-11”
 “The Fall of Man”
 “The Critical Problems of James”
 “Pre-Pauline Paradosis”
 “The History of the Development of Formgeschichte”
 “The Functional Christology of Oscar Cullmann”
 “The Old Testament Concept of Election”
 “Forgiveness in the Old Testament”
 “The Contributions of James Barr to Theological Dialogue”
 “The Historical-Critical Method:  Conservative and Liberal Perspective”
 “The Hermeneutical Method of Oscar Cullman:
 “The Biblical Concept of Authority”
 “Sociological Factors Influencing Concepts of Biblical Authority”

Book Reviews:
Special Revelation, by Bernard Ramm
Jesus of Nazareth, Edited by C. F. H. Henry
The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition, by E. P. Sanders
The Work and Words of Jesus, by A.M. Hunter

Commentaries:
 “Matthew” and “Isaiah” in The Believer’s Study Bible

Lectures:
“Why Christians Fight Over the Bible,” Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, TX,
and many other church settings
Columbia Bible College, Columbia, SC
Distinguished Christian Scholar Lectures, Mid-America Baptist Seminary, March 1984
Lectures in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1984; Shuburyness, England; Molokai, Hawaii; Mowe, Australia
 
SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES OF SERVICE
To the College
Coordinator of New Testament Program
Academic Cabinet
Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Campaign: 25th Anniversary Campaign
Admissions Committee
Financial Aid Committee
Faculty Development Committee
Graduation Committee
Library Committee

To the Community
Associational work:
President of Church Related Vocations Fellowship of Charleston Baptist Association, Charleston, SC; Secretary of Edisto Association
Sunday School Director of Edisto Association
Moderator and other varied associational and state services from 1962-1976 prior to assuming present position at Criswell College

TEACHING
Greek 1, II
New Testament Introduction
New Testament Introduction II
New Testament Survey I, II
Greek Exegetical Syntax I, II
Greek Exegetical Syntax II (Prison Epistles)
New Testament Theology
Topics in New Testament Studies: New Testament Theology
New Testament Intensive: Jesus
Messiah: Message & Mission
New Testament Intensive: Matthew
Greek Exegesis: Matthew
New Testament Intensive: Ephesians
New Testament Intensive: Romans
Greek Exegesis: Prison Epistles
New Testament Intensive: 1, 2 Peter & 1, 2, 3 John
New Testament Intensive: Gospel of Mark
Greek Exegesis: Mark: The Roaring Lion
New Testament Intensive: Prison Epistles (Col & Eph)
New Testament Exegesis: Romans

AWARDS
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
The Criswell College “Professor of the Year”, 1996-97 & 2000-01
Honored by Administration with H. Leroy Metts Greek Language Award, inaugurated May 2001
and awarded annually
Honored by Criswell College Alumni Association with H. Leroy Metts Scholarship, inaugurated April 2001 and awarded annually
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Criswell College, May 2009

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Evangelical Theological Society