Emeriti and Affiliates
Faculty Emeriti
Timothy E. Albrecht
Professor of Church Music; Professor of Music
Roberta C. Bondi
Professor of Church History
Anne Burkholder
Professor in the Practice of Ecclesiology and Church Leadersip
Noel Leo Erskine
Professor of Theology and Ethics
Charles R. Foster
Professor of Religion and Education
John M. Freeman
Assistant Professor of Practical Theology
M. Patrick Graham
Margaret A. Pitts Professor of Theological Bibliography
Jon P. Gunnemann
Professor of Social Ethics
Charles D. Hackett Jr.
Associate Professor in the Practice of Church Ministries
E. Brooks Holifield
Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Church History
Carl R. Holladay
Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament
Rodney J. Hunter
Professor of Pastoral Theology
Steven J. Kraftchick
Professor in the Practice of New Testament Interpretation
Timothy P. Jackson
Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics
Luke Timothy Johnson
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Thomas G. Long
Bandy Professor of Preaching
Walter J. Lowe
Professor of Systematic Theology
Rex D. Matthews
Professor in the Practice of Historical Theology and Wesleyan Studies
Barbara Day Miller
Associate Dean of Worship and Music;
Associate Professor in the Practice of Liturgy
and Music
J. Maxwell Miller
Professor of Old Testament
Carol A. Newsom
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament
Donald E. Nichols
Associate Professor of Practical Theology
David S. Pacini
Professor of Historical and Philosophical Theology
David L. Petersen
Franklin N. Parker Professor of Old Testament
Philip L. Reynolds
Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Medieval Christianity;
Aquinas Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology
Russell E. Richey
William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History
Don E. Saliers
William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship
Karen Scheib
Professor of Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology
Helen Pearson Smith
Professor of Theology
Luther E. Smith Jr.
Professor of Church and Community
John Snarey
Franklin N. Parker Professor of Human Development and Ethics
M. Thomas Thangaraj
D. W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity
Steven Michael Tipton
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Sociology of Religion
James L. Waits
Professor of Practical Theology
Carlton R. Young
Professor of Church Music
Affiliated Faculty
Theodore Brelsford
BA, Slippery Rock State University, 1983; MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988; PhD, Emory University, 1999.
Jill Hamilton
BS, North Carolina Central University, 1976; BSN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982; MSN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001; MRPL, Candler School of Theology, 2021.
Alice Hunt
BS, University of Montevallo, 1978; MA, MTS, PhD, Vanderbilt University.
Marie T. Friedmann Marquardt
BA, Princeton University, 1994; MA, University of Florida, 1997; PhD, Emory University, 2004.
Vincent Wimbush
BA, Morehouse College, 1975; MDiv, Yale University Divinity School, 1978; AM, Harvard University, 1981; PhD, Harvard University, 1983.