New Testament Scholar Brad Braxton to Give Samford’s Holley-Hull Lectures

Biblical scholar and teacher of preaching Brad Braxton will present Samford University’s 2011 Holley-Hull Lectures Sept. 28–29.

Braxton, an ordained Baptist minister and a respected voice among today’s progressive religious leaders, will speak on the theme “The Beloved Community in a Pluralistic World” during two lectures at Samford and one at Birmingham’s Sixth Avenue Baptist Church.

On Sept. 28, he will speak at the church at 6:30 p.m. He will speak Sept. 29 at Samford at 10 a.m. in Reid Chapel and at 3 p.m. in Brooks Hall Auditorium.

Braxton earned a doctorate in New Testament studies at Emory University in Atlanta and a bachelor’s degree in religious studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has held professorships at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

For more information, call the Samford religion department at 205-726-2925.