Author & College President Speaks at Emmanuel College

Dr. Emir Caner, President of Truett-McConnell College, explains "10 Things Every Christian Needs to Know about Islam" at Emmanuel College Monday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. in Taylor Chapel.

The public is invited to attend this free event, which is sponsored by EC’s Cultural Awareness Program (CAP).

Born on August 25, 1970, Emir Fethi Caner grew up in the Columbus, Ohio, area in a Sunni Muslim family, the son of an Islamic leader. As a young teenager, he came to faith in Jesus Christ at a revival service at the Stelzer Road Baptist Church. 

Dr. Caner is a 1993 summa cum laude graduate from The Criswell College in Dallas with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies. He followed in 1995 with a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1999 from the University of Texas at Arlington.

He has served as a lecturer and seminar leader in numerous colleges and institutes, as well as in pastor and staff positions in churches in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Texas. From 1999 to 2004, he served as Assistant Professor of Church History and Anabaptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. During the 2004-05 academic year, he served as the seminary’s Associate Dean of Southeastern College at Wake Forest. In 2005, he became the founding Dean of The College at Southwestern, Director of the Center for Free Church Studies, and Professor of History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He remained there until he accepted the position of eighth president at Truett-McConnell College in Georgia in August 2008.

He has written and contributed to 16 books about various topics, including Islam, persecution, church history, Baptist history, and apologetics. Unveiling Islam, which received the Gold Medallion Book of the Year award, has sold nearly 200,000 copies, while More Than a Prophet was a finalist for Book of the Year in Evangelism for Outreach Magazine.

Dr. Caner is in demand nationally and internationally as a speaker, lecturer, conference leader and participant in television and radio programs. On a mission trip to the Czech Republic in 2000, he met Hana Titerova, daughter of the General Secretary of the Czech Baptist Union in Prague. They were married later that year and are the parents of three children.

For more information, visit www.emircaner.com or contact Dr. Emma K. Pettyjohn at epettyjohn@ec.edu or (706) 245-7227.

Written by Communication Senior Lauren Peeples