Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III, chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Miss., will deliver Grove City College’s J. Howard Pew/Charles S. Mackenzie Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12 in Harbison Chapel on campus.
Duncan will speak on the theme “Biblical Perspective on Christian Higher Education.” The lecture, which is part of the Christian Formation Office’s Faith for Life series, is free and open to the public.
He will also contribute to the Christian Formation Office’s “Psalms for Life” series during a Chapel service at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, delivering a message entitled “Psalms for Christian Perspective."
In addition to leading the Jackson campus, Duncan serves as the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology for RTS. He is an ordained Presbyterian Church in America pastor with a ministry spans four decades and four congregations and a prolific author. His published works include more than 20 books on the gospel, church ministry and historical theology.
He is co-founder of Together for the Gospel, Senior Fellow of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (having served as both chairman of the board and president) and was president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals from 2004-2012. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The combined Pew/Mackenzie lecture honors two of Grove City College’s greatest leaders. Pew was a 1900 graduate of the College who served as president of Sun Oil and served 40 years as chairman of the College’s Board of Trustees. MacKenzie served as president of the College from 1971 to 1991 and led the College’s historic fight against the federal government over funding and regulation.
Faith for Life lectures provide students with the opportunity to hear from invited guests and esteemed faculty about the implications of the Christian faith for life and culture.