Malcolm B. Yarnell III serves the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention as Research Professor of Theology at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and as Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology. He also serves the Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas, as Teaching Pastor. He is a Member of the Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity with the Baptist World Alliance, is affiliated with numerous research institutes and publishing projects, and mentors dozens of PhD students.

His most recent books are a biblical theology, Who Is the Holy Spirit? (Nashville, 2019), and a philosophical theology, John Locke’s “Letters of Gold” (Oxford, 2017). His most widely reviewed volumes include a biblical theology, God the Trinity (Nashville, 2016), an historical theology, Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation (Oxford, 2014), and a theological method, The Formation of Christian Doctrine (Nashville, 2007). Malcolm and his co-author, David S. Dockery, the President of Southwestern Seminary, just completed a major dogmatics volume, Special Revelation and Scripture (Nashville, forthcoming 2024).