Challenges to Humanity

John Wilsey — Meet the Speakers of Exploring Personhood: Challenges to Humanity

Center for Faith and Culture | January 12, 2024
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What challenges do we face as human beings? How does our faith inform our understanding of mental health, identity, technology, life, and civic engagement?

Join us as we advance the conversation at our second-annual Exploring Personhood conference, presented by the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on Feb. 21-22, 2024.

In this post, get to know one of our speakers, Dr. John Wilsey, who will speak on Christian nationalism in a lecture titled, “The Dead, the Living, and the Yet to be Born: Tradition and American Nationality.”

Meet John Wilsey

John D. Wilsey (MDiv/PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998/2010) is Associate Professor of Church History and Philosophy and Chair of the Church History and Historical Theology Department at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy and the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has held research fellowships with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. In 2017-18, he was the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life with the James Madison Program in American Ideas and Institutions at Princeton University. He is author of three books that consider the intersection between nationalism and theology, most recently God’s Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles, which appeared in Eerdmans’ Library of Religious Biography Series. He is currently writing a book on conservatism and religious freedom for Eerdmans and another book on Christian nationalism and historical thinking for pastors and church leaders for B&H. He is an elder at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, KY, and is married to his wife of 26 years, Mandy–a Raleigh native. They have two daughters, Caroline and Sally.

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