Theologians
- George Washington Baines (1809–1882) – Baptist clergyman in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; maternal great-grandfather of Lyndon B. Johnson
- B. H. Carroll (1843–1914) – First president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Russell H. Dilday – Baptist pastor (Tallowood Baptist Church and others), author, educator, former President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of Texas Monthly's "Texas Twenty"
- James T. Draper, Jr. – Pastor of First Baptist Euless (1975–1991) and president of Southern Baptist LifeWay Resources (1991–2006)
- Robert Jeffress – Pastor of First Baptist Church (Dallas, Texas)
- Kyle Lake – Pastor and leader in the Emerging Church movement
- J. Frank Norris – Popular fundamentalist Baptist preacher and critic of Baylor's embracing of evolution in the 1920s
- Paul Powell – Dean of George W. Truett Theological Seminary, pastor, BGCT leader, author
- Harold Philmon Reeves (1923–2009) – First SBC missionary to Thailand
- John R. Rice – Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper
- Lester Roloff – fundamentalist Baptist preacher, storyteller, and author
- George W. Truett – Pastor First Baptist Church Dallas 1897 to 1944, president Baptist World Alliance and Southern Baptist Convention
Read more about this topic: List Of Baylor University People, Academics, Scientists, and Theologians
Famous quotes containing the word theologians:
“We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“I don’t like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Wordsworth’s particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was—to Plato and who else?
The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)