John Albert Broadus (1827–95) was an American Baptist pastor, theologian, and educator known for his contributions to homiletics, biblical studies, and theological education. A founding faculty member of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he later served as its second president.
Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, Broadus was educated at home before earning an M.A. from the University of Virginia (1850.) Ordained that same year, he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlottesville. In 1859, he helped establish the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he taught New Testament interpretation and homiletics.
During the American Civil War, Broadus served as a Confederate chaplain and later became a key figure in Southern Baptist theological education. In 1889, he delivered the Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School. His most influential work, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870,) remains a homiletics classic. Other notable publications include Lectures on the History of Preaching (1876, revised 1896,) Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (1886,) Jesus of Nazareth (1890,) and Harmony of the Gospels (1893.)
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The newspaper is one of the foremost wonders of the modern world. The family that does not take, and carefully read, at least one newspaper, is not living in the nineteenth century.
—John Albert Broadus
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