Dr. Donald Dowless - Shorter University

Dr. Don Dowless, presidentPresident, Shorter University
Professor of Christian Studies
315 Shorter Avenue, Rome, GA 30165
Phone: (706) 233-7201
Office: Sheffield-Thompson Building (ST-101)
Email: chimes@shorter.edu

Educational Background:

  • Post-doctoral studies: Oxford University (England)
  • Post-doctoral studies: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
  • Ph.D., Baylor University
  • M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • B.A., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Courses Taught:

  • Survey of Old Testament
  • Survey of New Testament
  • Religion in America
  • Baptist History
  • Church Management and Administration
  • Homiletics
  • Hermeneutics
  • Life and Teachings of Jesus
  • Survey of Church History
  • Contemporary Theology
  • New Testament Bible Book Study: John
  • New Testament Bible Book Study: Revelation

Ministry Experience:

  • Pastor
  • Conference Speaker
  • Interim Pastor and Supply
  • International Ministry: Romania and Guatemala

Publications:

  • Review of Radicalism, Primitivism, and the Lamb’s War, by T. L. Underwood, Baptist History and Heritage, forthcoming.
  • Lesson writer for The Baptist Courier (South Carolina Baptist state paper), February, 1998.
  • “Martha Steams Marshall,” Biblical Recorder.  Series on prominent Baptist women.  February 29, 1997: 3.
  • “Fannie Heck,” Biblical Recorder.  Series on prominent Baptist women.  February 22, 1997: 3.
  • “Eliza Moring Yates,” Biblical Recorder.  Series on prominent Baptist women.  February 15, 1997: 3.
  • “Ann Hasseltine Judson,” Biblical Recorder.  Series on prominent Baptist women.  February 1, 1997: 3.
  • “Sikhism,” Belief Bulletin, Interfaith Witness Department, North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Rewrote Bulletin, 1994.
  • “World Religions Overview,” Belief Bulletin, Interfaith Witness Department, North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Rewrote Bulletin, 1994.
  • Wrote three articles on “Chaplains”, “American Friends Service Committee”, and “American Jewish Relief Committee” for inclusion in the Encyclopedia of World War I, published by Garland Publishing Company.
  • “Seven Deadly Sins in Evangelism,” Evangelism (August 1990): 155-160.
  • “Preserving the Quaker Way: Guidance of Quaker Social Life by the Monthly Meetings in Colonial North Carolina,” The Southern Friend (Fall 1989): 1-16.

Awards:

  • Listed in Outstanding Young Men of America (1988)
  • Member of Theta Alpha Kappa (Religion)

Professional Organizations:

  • Evangelical Theological Society
  • Southern Baptist Historical Society- Board of Advisors
  • South Carolina Baptist Historical Society
  • South Carolina Baptist State Convention Historical Committee

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