Duncan, Ligon
Ligon Duncan is the president of the Alliance of Confessing
Evangelicals. He serves as senior minister of the First Presbyterian
Church of Jackson, Mississippi, the Convener of Twin Lakes Fellowship,
Editorial Director of Reformed Academic Press Adjunct Professor of
Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, and Chairman of the Council
on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He is currently the Moderator of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (2004-2005) -
the youngest minister to serve as moderator in the denomination's
history.
Duncan, a native of Greenville, South Carolina, was
born and reared in the home of an eighth generation Southern
Presbyterian Ruling Elder. He is a graduate of Furman University,
Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, (1986 MDiv; 1987 MA
Historical Theology). He studied Systematic Theology at the Free Church
of Scotland College under Professor Donald Macleod (1988-1990) and
earned the PhD (Ecclesiastical History and Systematic Theology) at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1995. He has written and edited
several books including Give Praise to God and The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century (3 vols.).
Dr.
Duncan's wife Anne (Furman University, BA; Gordon-Conwell Seminary,
MRE; Reformed Theological Seminary, MA) is an accomplished Christian
Educator in her own right. They are the proud parents of daughter Sarah
Kennedy, (7), and son, Jennings, (5).