James W. Bryant

James Bryant

 

CONTACT INFORMATION
James Bryant
Office:  214-818-1319

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2004–present Senior Professor of Pastoral Theology

2002–2003 Vice President for Academic Affairs, Criswell College, Dallas, TX

1993-2002 Professor of Religion in the School of Religion, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL

1991-1993 Executive Vice President, then President of Luther Rice Bible College and Seminary, Atlanta, GA

1990 Became Minister-at-Large, Grand Ave. Baptist Church, in order to devote full-time
to Bible conferences, seminars, and revivals.

1983-1989 Pastor, Grand Avenue Baptist Church, Ft. Smith, AR

1977-1983 Pastor, Sagamore Hill Baptist Church, Ft. Worth, TX

1973-1977 Pastor, Hoffmantown Baptist Church, Albuquerque, NM

1970-1972 Organized, served as Academic Dean, and taught in the Criswell Bible Institute (now Criswell College)

1968-1973 Minister of Evangelism and Church Organization, First Baptist Church, Dallas

Organized the Criswell Bible Institute (now Criswell College) and served as the first Academic Dean

1964-1968 Pastor, Burton Hill Baptist Church, Ft. Worth, TX

1960-1964 Associate Pastor, Sagamore Hill Baptist Church, Ft. Worth, TX

1958-1959 Associate Pastor, Colonial Hills Baptist Church, East Point, GA

EDUCATION
1999 Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Criswell College

1968 Th.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX
Major: Philosophy of Religion

1963 M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX

1958 B.A. (with Honor), Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

SCHOLARSHIP
Books: 
The New Guidebook for Pastors.  Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007.  This book is being used at ten seminaries and colleges.

Learning and Living for Christ.  Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print.
Used as one of the textbooks in Philosophy of Religion classes in both Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

God Who Is. Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print

God Who Speaks and Acts. Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print.

The Future of God. Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print.

Christology According to John’s Gospel. Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print.

These books were used primarily as an alternative Bible Study curriculum for college students in First Baptist church, Dallas, and in other large churches across the Southern Baptist convention. 

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.  Dallas: Crescendo Book Publications.  Out of print.
Translated into Swahili for use in Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board seminaries in Africa.

Publications:
Weekly Sunday School lesson comments for the “Explore the Bible Series,” one quarter annually, for the Alabama Baptist News Magazine from 1998 to 2002.

SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES FOR SERVICE
Member and Trustee of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention
Trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Member and Chairman of the Credentials Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention
Trustee of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Member of the Committee on Committees of the Southern Baptist Convention
Member of the Hispanic Theological Education Task Force of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention

TEACHING
Bible Introduction
Pastoral Ministry
Topics in Ministry
Pastoral Leadership
Baptist History and Distinctives
Systematic Theology I
Systematic Theology II
Theology Intensive: Dispensational Pre-millennialism
Theology Intensive: Reformation & Post-Reformation Theology
Theology Intensive: Christology
Reformation & Post-reformation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Evangelical Theological Society
Near East Archaeological Society
Biblical Archaeology Society
Christian History Society