Herschel Hobbs

Herschel H. Hobbs (1907–1995) was a Southern Baptist clergyman who served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1961 to 1963. He was born in Talladega Springs, Alabama. David Dockery described him as "one of the most influential and shaping leaders in Southern Baptist life in the twentieth century". Jerry Faught held him to be "perhaps the finest denominational statesman Southern Baptists have ever known."

He chaired the committee that drafted the 1963 revision of the Baptist Faith and Message. He graduated from Howard College (later named Samford University) and then attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he earned a doctorate in 1938. He is memorialized at two places on the campus of Samford University.

Partial list of writings of Herschel Hobbs Hobbs, Herschel H. My Faith and Message: An Autobiography. Broadman & Holman, 1993. Hobbs, Herschel H. "Southern Baptists and Confessionalism: A Comparison of the Origins and Contents of the 1925 and 1963." Review & Expositor 76, no. 1 (1979): 55-68. Hobbs, Herschel H. A Layman's Handbook of Christian Doctrine. Baptist Sunday School Board , 1974. Hobbs, Herschel H. "The Baptist Faith and Message-Anchored but Free." Baptist History and Heritage 13, no. 3 (1978): 34ff. Hobbs, Herschel H. The Origin of All Things: Studies in Genesis. Word Books, 1975. Hobbs, Herschel H. The Cosmic Drama: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation. Word Books, 1971. Hobbs, Herschel H. An Exposition of the Gospel of Mark. Baker Book House, 1970. Hobbs, Herschel H. "Pastoral dilemmas in baptismal practice: A symposium." Review & Expositor 65, no. 1 (1968): 69-74. Hobbs, Herschel H. An Exposition of the Gospel of Matthew. Baker Book House, 1965. Hobbs, Herschel H. What Baptists Believe. Baptist Sunday School Board, 1964. Hobbs, Herschel H. Fundamentals of our faith. Baptist Sunday School Board, 1960. Hobbs, Herschel H. "Bible Study and the Southwide Revival." Review & Expositor 36, no. 2 (1939): 187-196. Paschall, H. Franklin, and Herschel H. Hobbs, eds. The teacher's Bible commentary: A concise, thorough interpretation of the entire Bible designed especially for Sunday School teachers. B&H Publishing Group, 1972.