Curtis W. Freeman is Ruth D. Duncan Director of the Baptist House of Studies and Research Professor of Theology and Baptist Studies. His research and teaching explores areas of Free Church theology.
His most recent books are Pilgrim Letters: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ (Fortress Press 2021) and Pilgrim Journey: Instruction in the Mystery of the Gospel (Fortress Press 2023). His earlier books include Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Noncomformity (Baylor University Press, 2017), Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists (Baylor University Press, 2014), A Company of Women Preachers: Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth-Century England (Baylor University Press, 2011), and Baptist Roots: A Reader in the Theology of a Christian People (Judson Press, 1999). He is an ordained Baptist minister and serves as editor of the American Baptist Quarterly and serves on the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Doctrine and Christian Unity.
A Third Way: Curtis Freeman's Journey as An 'Other Baptist' (pdf)
Recent Books
In the Media
Curtis Freeman: "Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists"
Freeman: The Southern Baptist Convention’s coming ‘Great Ejection’
News and Stories
Duke Baptist House and Keesee Foundation Sign Partnership
The new partnership will ensure that Duke Divinity School students are eligible to apply for theological grants.
Freeman to Lead Baptists in Dialogue with Methodists
Professor Freeman will help lead the first international dialogue between Baptists and Methodists.
Recent Publications on Scholars@Duke
Selected Publications
- Baptists and Baptism at Year 400 (pdf) Baptists Today (December 2009)
- Alterity and Its Cure, CrossCurrents 59/4 (December 2009), 404-41.
- 'Never Had I Been So Blind': W. A. Criswell’s ‘Change’ on Racial Segregation, The Journal of Southern Religion 10 (2007).
- Jesus Christ, the Fullness of God, Baptists Today (August 2008): 17. (pdf)
- Re-Envisioning Baptist Identity: A Manifesto for Baptist Communities in North America, with Mikael Broadway, Barry Harvey, James Wm. McClendon, Jr., Elizabeth Newman, Philip Thompson, and others. Baptists Today (26 June 1997), 8-10. (pdf)