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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Ligon Duncan</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Jennings Ligon Duncan III</div><br><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1960-11-29</span>) </span>November 29, 1960<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Greenville%2C_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Furman_University" title="Furman University">Furman University</a> (<a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br><a href="Covenant_Theological_Seminary" title="Covenant Theological Seminary">Covenant Theological Seminary</a> (<a href="Master_of_Divinity" title="Master of Divinity">MDiv</a>)<br><a href="University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a> (<a href="Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Theological work</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tradition or movement</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterianism</a>, <a href="Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Calvinism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Main interests</th><td class="infobox-data">Calvinism, <a href="Covenant_Theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Covenant Theology">Covenant Theology</a>, <a href="Biblical_Inerrancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical Inerrancy">Biblical Inerrancy</a>, <a href="Gender_roles" class="mw-redirect" title="Gender roles">gender roles</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable ideas</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">Covenant theology</a>, <a href="Complementarianism" title="Complementarianism">Complementarianism</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<p><b>Jennings Ligon Duncan III</b> (born November 29, 1960) is an American <a href="Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> scholar and pastor. He is <a href="Chancellor_(education)" title="Chancellor (education)">Chancellor</a> of <a href="Reformed_Theological_Seminary" title="Reformed Theological Seminary">Reformed Theological Seminary</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div>
<p>Duncan is native to <a href="Greenville%2C_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a>. His father was an eighth-generation Southern Presbyterian ruling elder.<sup id="cite_ref-FPC_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duncan graduated from Greenville Senior High School in 1979 and <a href="Furman_University" title="Furman University">Furman University</a> in 1983 (B.A., History).<sup id="cite_ref-FPC_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued his studies at <a href="Covenant_Theological_Seminary" title="Covenant Theological Seminary">Covenant Theological Seminary</a> with an M.Div. in 1986 and an MA in historical theology in 1987. He completed doctoral studies in theology at the <a href="University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>, <a href="New_College%2C_Edinburgh" title="New College, Edinburgh">New College</a> in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He served on the staff of Covenant Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, (1984–1987). He was licensed to preach in 1985 by Calvary Presbytery (PCA) in South Carolina and was ordained in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-FPC_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FPC-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Institutional_and_organizational_involvement">Institutional and organizational involvement</h2></div>
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<p>In the Summer of 1990, Duncan joined the faculty of <a href="Reformed_Theological_Seminary" title="Reformed Theological Seminary">Reformed Theological Seminary</a> (RTS), Jackson, Mississippi, as the John R. Richardson Chair of Systematic Theology. At the same time he served as assistant pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi (1990–1995), and interim pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Yazoo City, Mississippi (1993).<sup id="cite_ref-rts.edu_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rts.edu-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Effective January 1, 2014, Duncan resigned his position as Sr. Minister at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS, and assumed the role of Chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary.<sup id="cite_ref-rts.edu-a_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rts.edu-a-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continues to teach in the department of Systematic Theology while serving in this role.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_Presbyterian_Church_and_the_PCA">First Presbyterian Church and the PCA</h3></div>
<p>Duncan was named senior pastor at <a href="First_Presbyterian_Church_(Jackson%2C_Mississippi)" title="First Presbyterian Church (Jackson, Mississippi)">First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi</a> (<a href="Presbyterian_Church_in_America" title="Presbyterian Church in America">PCA</a>) in 1996, and served in that capacity until early 2014. An active churchman, he has been involved in the courts of the <a href="Presbyterian_Church_in_America" title="Presbyterian Church in America">Presbyterian Church in America</a> (PCA) in various ways: General Assembly's Committee on Psalmody; Committees of Commissioners for Covenant Theological Seminary, Mission to North America, and Bills and Overtures; member and chair of the Credentials Committee of the Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley (1996–2002); vice-chair of the General Assembly's Creation Study Committee (1998–2000); member of the search committee for a Coordinator of Reformed University Ministries; chair of the General Assembly's Theological Examination Committee; member of the PCA's Strategic Planning Committee; moderator of the Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley (2001); moderator of the PCA General Assembly (2004), making him the youngest elected to this position in the denomination's history.<sup id="cite_ref-monergism.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monergism.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_Organizations">Other Organizations</h3></div>
<p>He is the former president of the <a href="Alliance_of_Confessing_Evangelicals" title="Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals">Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a broad coalition of evangelical Christians from various denominations. It aims to call the church to repent of what it see as its worldliness, and to take up the mantle of the Protestant reformers in recovering the centrality of worship and doctrine in the life of the church. In his capacity as president, Duncan regularly spoke at the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, an Alliance-related forum that offers quarterly conferences on Reformed doctrine and history. He also contributes to the Alliance's online magazine and blog, Reformation21.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He is also a council member of the <a href="Gospel_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Gospel Coalition">Gospel Coalition</a>, a "group of (mostly) pastors and churches in the Reformed heritage who delight in the truth and power of the gospel, and who want the gospel of Christ crucified and resurrected to lie at the center of all we cherish, preach, and teach." They have created The Gospel Coalition Network, which is a consortium of "Christian pastors and other leaders who stimulate one another to faithfulness and fruitfulness in life and ministry in this rapidly-changing, increasingly urbanized, and spiritually hungry world."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Gospel_Coalition_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Gospel_Coalition-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pastoral_History">Pastoral History</h2></div>
<p>Ligon Duncan is the Chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary and the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Ligon was born in Greenville, SC, and reared in the home of an eighth generation Presbyterian ruling elder. A 1983 graduate of Furman University (B.A. History), he received the M.Div. and M.A. (Historical Theology) from Covenant Theological Seminary. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, New College, Scotland, in 1995 (under the supervision of renowned Reformation and Patristics scholar, David F. Wright). While in Scotland he also studied Systematic Theology at the Free Church of Scotland College (now Edinburgh Theological Seminary) with Professor Donald Macleod.
</p><p>Ligon’s pastoral experience began in his twenties, while in seminary. At the age of 24, he was licensed to preach by Calvary Presbytery (PCA) and since then he has preached in Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, Baptist, Congregational, Anglican, Methodist, and Independent churches (including PCA, ARP, EPC, OPC, RPCNA, PC(USA), ECO, CRC, RCA, URCNA congregations, churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention as well as various Reformed Baptist and evangelical Anglican groups). While in Britain, Duncan supplied pulpits in Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland congregations, as well as Presbyterian Association of England churches (now called The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of England and Wales). His pastoral ministry now spans four decades and four congregations: The Covenant Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, Missouri; Trinity Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Miss.; First Presbyterian Church, Yazoo City, Miss.; and historic First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Miss., where he served almost 18 years.
</p><p>At 28, Ligon was elected to the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS). In 1990, Duncan was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and began to teach at RTS, Jackson, Miss., where he eventually became chairman of the department of systematic theology, and the John R. Richardson Professor of Theology. Over his thirty-plus years at RTS he has lectured regularly at all of the campuses of (especially Jackson, Charlotte, Orlando, Washington, and New York) and he has taught all of the core Systematic Theology courses, Pastoral/Social Ethics, Apologetics, History of Philosophy and Christian Thought, Covenant Theology, Patristics, Evangelism, Worship, Church History, Philosophical Theology, Scottish Theology, Contemporary Theology, and Theology of the Westminster Standards. He left his full-time position at RTS to become Senior Minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church (1837) in Jackson, Miss., in 1996 and served until 2013, while continuing to teach at RTS as adjunct. He returned to the regular faculty of RTS in 2012 and became Chancellor/CEO of RTS.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theological_and_Social_Positions">Theological and Social Positions</h2></div>
<p>In 2017, Duncan signed the <a href="Nashville_Statement" title="Nashville Statement">Nashville Statement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Signatories_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Signatories-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gender_Roles">Gender Roles</h3></div>
<p>Duncan holds to a <a href="Complementarianism" title="Complementarianism">complementarian</a> view of gender roles.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He believes that 1 Corinthians 14:34, which says 'women should keep silent in the churches', refers to women teaching men (like found in 1Timothy 2:12),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This puts him at odds with the popular view espoused by <a href="Wayne_Grudem" title="Wayne Grudem">Wayne Grudem</a> and <a href="D._A._Carson" title="D. A. Carson">Don Carson</a> who insist that the context shows that Paul is prohibiting women from publicly judging prophecy in the church.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the church he serves, men teach mixed adult Sunday school classes, occasionally husband/wife teams teach on issues such as parenting and marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Duncan wrote the introduction to Dr. Eric Mason's book "Woke Church," which argues Christian churches should support <a href="Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> and that the <a href="Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a> promotes black pride.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.moodypublishers.com/woke-church/">[1]</a>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2></div>
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<ul><li><i>Does Grace Grow Best in Winter?</i> (co-author with J. Nicholas Reid). <a href="P_%26_R_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="P &amp; R Publishing">P &amp; R Publishing</a>, 2009.</li>
<li><i>Fear Not!</i> (foreword by <a href="Jerry_Bridges" title="Jerry Bridges">Jerry Bridges</a>). <a href="Christian_Focus_Publications" title="Christian Focus Publications">Christian Focus</a>, 2008.</li>
<li><i>The Westminster Assembly: A Guide to Basic Bibliography</i> (co-author with David W. Hall). Reformed Academic Press, 1993.</li>
<li><i>A Short History of the Westminster Assembly</i>(co-author/editor with William Beveridge). Reformed Academic Press, 1993.</li>
<li><i>The Genesis Debate: Three Views of the Days of Creation</i> (co-author with David W. Hall, Meredith Kline, Lee Irons, Hugh Ross, and Gleason Archer). Crux Press, 2000.</li>
<li><i>Should We Leave Our Churches?</i> (co-author with Mark Talbot). P&amp;R, 2004.</li>
<li><i>Women’s Ministry in the Local Church</i> (co-author). <a href="Crossway_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossway Books">Crossway</a>, 2006.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Edited">Edited</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>Matthew Henry’s Method for Prayer</i> (editor). Christian Focus Publications/Christian Heritage, 1994.</li>
<li><i>The Westminster Confession in the 2lst Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Westminster Assembly</i>, (general editor and contributor) Mentor, Vol. 1, 2003; Vol. 2, 2004; Vol. 3, 2008.</li>
<li><i>Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship</i>, (editor and contributor) P&amp;R, 2003.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contributor">Contributor</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>The Practice of Confessional Subscription</i> (contributor). <a href="University_Press_of_America" title="University Press of America">University Press of America</a>, 1995.</li>
<li><i>Reclaiming the Gospel and Reforming Churches</i>, (contributor) <a href="Founders_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Founders Press">Founders Press</a>, 2003.</li>
<li><i>Letters to Timothy</i>, (contributor) Founders Press, 2004.</li>
<li><i>Confessing Our Hope</i>, (contributor) GPTS Press, 2004.</li>
<li><i>The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics</i>, (contributor) IVP, 2004.</li>
<li><i>Preaching the Cross </i>(contributor), Crossway, 2007.</li>
<li><i>Fear Not: Death and the Afterlife from a Christian Perspective</i> (contributor), Christian Focus, 2008.</li>
<li><i>In My Place Condemned He Stood</i> (contributor), Crossway, 2008.</li></ul>
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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101191215/http://www.fpcjackson.org/staff/duncan.htm">"Reverend J. Ligon Duncan III"</a>. First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fpcjackson.org/staff/duncan.htm">the original</a> on 1 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 December</span> 2011</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-monergism.com-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-monergism.com_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/duncan.html">"Monergism.com"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-08-22</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alliancenet.org/cc/article/0,,PTID307086_CHID559376_CIID1920896,00.html">Ligon Duncan</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120505200822/http://www.alliancenet.org/cc/article/0,,PTID307086_CHID559376_CIID1920896,00.html">Archived</a> 2012-05-05 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals</span>
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<li id="cite_note-The_Gospel_Coalition-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Gospel_Coalition_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080921145504/http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/about/council-members/ligon_duncan">"The Gospel Coalition"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/about/council-members/ligon_duncan">the original</a> on 2008-09-21<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-08-22</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbmw.org/Online-Books/Fifty-Crucial-Questions/Fifty-Crucial-Questions">see Question 25, also see footnote on p144 in Wayne Grudem's book <i>Countering the Claims of Evangelical Feminism</i> (or the footnote on p233 in the full length version <i>Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth</i>) for references to more detailed treatments of this question.</a></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ligonduncan.com/">LigonDuncan.com - official website of J. Ligon Duncan III</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rts.edu/Chancellor/bio.aspx?id=177">Ligon Duncan's Complete Bibliography</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181022075412/http://rts.edu/Chancellor/bio.aspx?id=177">Archived</a> 2018-10-22 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fpcjackson.org">First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reformation21.org/">Alliance's reformation21 online magazine</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alliancenet.org/">Alliance Homepage</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbmw.org">Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120722204847/http://www.sovereigngraceministries.org/blogs/cj-mahaney/post/patristics-for-busy-pastors-interview-with-dr-j-ligon-duncan-iii-patrology.aspx">“Patristics for Busy Pastors”: An Interview with Dr. Ligon Duncan</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.t4g.org/">Together for the Gospel</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230506123524/http://www.t4g.org/">Archived</a> 2023-05-06 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071114213425/http://www.fpcjackson.org/general/Twin%20Lakes%20Fellowship/index_twin_lakes_fellowship.htm">Twin Lakes Fellowship</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.twinlakescamp.org/">Twin Lakes Camp and Conference Center</a></li></ul>
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