Craig A. Blaising is Executive Vice President and Provost of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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. Blaising earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

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, Scotland, a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary

Dallas Theological Seminary

Dallas Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system known as Dispensationalism...

, and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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. He is a recognized authority in patristic studies and eschatology and is one of the primary proponents of "progressive dispensationalism

Progressive dispensationalism

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Prior to serving at Southwestern, Blaising was Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology and associate vice president for doctoral studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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. Before that, he served as professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary

Dallas Theological Seminary

Dallas Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system known as Dispensationalism...

. In 1978, Blaising was the first faculty member to occupy the Evangelical Bible Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington

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Blaising is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society

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. He was elected as the organization's national president in 2005 and served as the president of the Southwest Region in 1986-87. He is also a member of the International Association of Patristic Studies, the North American Patristics Society, and the Society of Biblical Literature

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Other Contributions

• Blaising, Craig A. "Malachi." In Bible Knowledge Commentary, ed. John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, 1573-89. Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1985.
• Blaising, Craig A. "Lewis Sperry Chafer." In Handbook of Evangelical Theologians, ed. Walter A. Elwell, 83-96. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993.
• Blaising, Craig A. "Spiritual Formation in the Early Church." In The Christian Educators Handbook on Spiritual Formation. Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1994.
• Blaising, Craig A. "Dispensationalism." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A. Elwell, 343-45. 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker / Carlisle: UK: Paternoster, 2001.
• Blaising, Craig A. "Faithfulness: A Prescription for Theology." In Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism? Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 201-16. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2007.
• Blaising, Craig A. "The Future of Israel as a Theological Question." In To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History, ed. Darrell L. Bock and Mitch Glaser, 102-21. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008.

• Dr. Blaising has also contributed various entries in The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, 2nd ed. (1997) and The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (1984 and 2001).