Gregory Alan Thornbury
| Gregory Alan Thornbury | |
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| The King's College | |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Mills, Interim |
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| Born |
20 November 1970 Lewisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Spouse(s) | Kimberly Thornbury |
| Children | Katherine Elizabeth Carolyn Taylor |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York |
| Alma mater |
Messiah College Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Green Templeton College, Oxford |
| Profession | Professor, university president |
Gregory Alan Thornbury is President of The King's College in New York City. He was previously Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of Theology & Missions, and Vice President for Spiritual Life at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.,
Thornbury grew up in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His father, John Forrest Thornbury, was Pastor of the Winfield Baptist Church outside of Lewisburg. Greg Thornbury chose Messiah College for his undergraduate studies. He graduated from Messiah College in 1993, with a B.A. in communications. At Messiah College, he met his future wife, Kimberly. They married shortly after their simultaneous graduations from Messiah and moved to the campus of Southern Seminary in the summer of 1993. In 1996, Thornbury received a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary, and subsequently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Southern with an emphasis in philosophical theology under the supervision of R. Albert Mohler, and completed additional graduate study at Green College in Oxford (now Green-Templeton College). He finished his dissertation in 2001 in the area of religious epistemology. During his days as a graduate student, he came to know Carl F.H. Henry through correspondences and meetings. Thornbury relates how he had come close to losing his faith, but that reading Henry helped secure his faith: "Henry showed me how to be both a scholar and a follower of Jesus."
Thornbury was ordained in 1996 at the First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) of Clarksville, Indiana. Most of his career has been spent in higher education at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. In 1998, David Dockery of Union recruited him to teach philosophy, and he received tenure in 2006 after being promoted to associate professor. In 2000, he assumed the role of director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership Union University news release, after acquiring permission from Henry for the name.
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