Gerald R. McDermott has been named to the Anglican Chair of Divinity in Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, beginning with the 2015 fall semester.
Formerly a professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Va., McDermott is a Jonathan Edwards scholar whose recent book, “The Theology of Jonathan Edwards,” was awarded by Christianity Today its top theology/ethics book in 2013.
McDermott is a distinguished senior fellow at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion and a research associate at the Jonathan Edwards Centre of the University of the Free State in South Africa.
McDermott and his wife, Jean, have three sons and seven grandchildren.
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