Eddie Stepp

Dr. Eddie Stepp serves as Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Accelerated Pastoral Ministry Program within the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Gardner-Webb University, where he has mentored vocationally called students since 2003 through both academic and practical ministry frameworks.

His academic credentials include:

• PhD from Baylor University
• MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• BA from Baylor University

Research spans Christian historical trajectories, Baptist institutional development, and interfaith dynamics, with specialized focus on American Christianity, global religious culture, and Christian complicity in anti-Semitism culminating in Holocaust studies. His fieldwork manifests through mission leadership across Liberia, Kenya, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Guatemala, directly informing pedagogy in spiritual formation and cross-cultural preaching.

Active in local church pastoral and worship ministries beyond campus, his scholarly contributions include Baptist historical analysis while favoring theological classics like Bonhoeffer's Life Together for spiritual formation methodology.