Southeastern professor James Blackmore dies

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — James H. Blackmore, an author, pastor and longtime professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, died March 3 at his home in Warsaw, N.C. He was 87.

Blackmore taught at Southeastern 1963–96, and during much of that time led the school’s associate of divinity program. He had degrees from Wake Forest University and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, a doctoral degree from the University of Edinburgh and did post-doctoral studies at Duke University, the University of Iowa and Princeton University. Blackmore also led the seminary’s public relations and communications efforts in the 1960s. He produced a number of books during his lifetime, including works on the life of Christ, biblical studies and several collections of sermons.