Schools Attended:
Winnsboro High School - Winnsboro, Texas graduated 1934
Bethel College - McKenzie, Tennessee B.A. 1941
Cumberland Presbyterian Theological Seminary B.D. 1943
Oberlin Graduate School of Theology - Oberlin, Ohio S.T.M. 1945
Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee M.A. 1964
Union Theological Seminary - Richmond, Virginia Th.D. 1972

Churches Served:
Pleasant Green Cumberland Presbyterian Church - near Trezevant, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1940-1943
Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Savannah, Tennessee [Richland Presbytery] 1940-1943
Gum Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1940-1943
Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Smithville, Tennessee [McMinnville Presbytery] 1941-1942
Wellington Church of Christ (Disciples) - Wellington, Ohio 1943-1945
Tusculum Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Nashville, Tennessee [Nashville Presbytery] 1945-1947
Rockvale Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Rockvale, Tennessee [Murfreesboro Presbytery] 1945-1947
North Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Murray, Kentucky [Mayfield Presbytery] 1947-1950
Obion Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Martin, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1950-1953
Oak Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1958-1961
Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sharon, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1953-1956
Cool Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Milan, Tennessee [Hopewell Presbytery] 1961-1964

Moderator - Lebanon Presbytery 1946?
Moderator - Mayfield Presbytery 1948?
Manager of Cumberland Presbyterian Book Store - Nashville, Tennessee 1945-1946
Commissioner to General Assembly 1949
Teacher at Bethel College - McKenzie, Tennessee 1950-1956
Professor of Systematic Theology - Memphis Theological Seminary 1956-1981
Member of General Assembly's Theological Studies Committee 1953-1981?
Moderator - Hopewell Presbytery 1956?
Member of Committee to prepare statement on stewardship 1957
Member of General Assembly's Judiciary Committee 1972-1978?
Commissioner to General Assembly 1974
Member of General Assembly's Committee to Revise the Confession of Faith 1978-?

Bethel College Alumni Achievement Award - 1998

Books:

"An Index and Evaluation of Volume 114 of the Cumberland Presbyterian." B. Div. thesis, Cumberland Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 1941.

The Cumberland Presbyterian Doctrine of the Covenant. Two lectures delivered by the Reverend Joe Ben Irby during the annual Ministers' Conference, Bethel College, McKenzie, Tennessee, January 20-23, 1964. Memphis, Tennessee: Frontier Press, 1964.

"Changing Conceptions of the Doctrine of Predestination in American Reformed Theology." Ph.D. diss., Union Theological Seminary, 1972.

The Faith Once Delivered: Some Indispensible Doctrines of the Christian Faith. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2003.

The Good Medicine of Laughter. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2005.

A History of the Pine Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Route 1, Winnsboro, Texas: From its Beginning in 1864 through 1989 with a Brief Account of the Name, Origin, Government, and Doctrine of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Revised and updated. McKenzie, Tennessee: By the author, 1990.

Theological Snippets: 108 Brief Theological Statements Covering the Whole Scope of Christian Theology. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 1993.

This They Believed: A Brief History of Doctrine in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 1997.

Cumberland Presbyterianism and Arminianism Compared/Contrasted on Selected Doctrines. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 1998.

The Life and Thought of Rev. Finis Ewing: A Founder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2006.

The Life and Thought of Milton Bird, DD: An Apologist for Cumberland Presbyterian Theology. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2002.

The Life and Thought of Reuben Burrow, DD: An Advocate of Cumberland Presbyterian Theology. Memphis, Tennessee: By the Author, 2001.

The Life and Thought of Robert Verrell Foster, DD, LLD: An Exponent of Cumberland Presbyterian Theology. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2004.

The Life and Thought of Stanford Guthrie Burney, DD, LLD (1814-1893): A Maker of Cumberland Presbyterian Theology. Memphis, Tennessee: By the author, 2000.

Articles:
"The Law Our Paidogogos." The Theological Medium 1 (November 1949): 6.

"The Place of Religious Experience in the Life of the Minister." The Cumberland Seminarian 1 (Fall 1953): 1-3.

"An Exegetical Note on John 10:16." The Cumberland Seminarian 3 (Fall 1955): 4.

"A Note on Ephesians 2: 8-9." The Cumberland Seminarian 4 (Spring 1957): 5-6.

"Does Paul Teach That All Men Sinned in Adam?" The Cumberland Seminarian 5 (Winter 1958): 4-5.

"Some Aspects of Medium Theology in the Mid-Twentieth Century." The Cumberland Seminarian 7 (Winter 1960): 1-4.

"Jonathan Edwards and Revivalism." The Cumberland Seminarian 9 (Spring 1962): 1-5.

"The Relation of the Child to the Covenant People According to the Confessions and Selected Theologians." The Cumberland Seminarian 11 (Fall 1964): 2-13.

"Toward a Theology of Church Government." The Cumberland Seminarian 13 (Fall 1974): 1-5.

"The Cumberland Presbyterian Doctrine of the Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit." The Cumberland Seminarian 14 (Winter 1976): 1-29.

"The Neo-Pentecostal Doctrine of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit." The Cumberland Seminarian 14 (Winter 1976); 30-39.

"The New Side Presbyterian Doctrine of Predestination: Departure from Westminster?" The Cumberland Seminarian 18 (Fall 1979): 3-14. [The Bowen Lectures - Lecture I]

"The Cumberland Presbyterian Doctrine of Predestination: Something New in American Presbyterian Theology?" The Cumberland Seminarian 18 (Fall 1979): 14-23. [The Bowen Lectures - Lecture II]

"The New School Presbyterian Doctrine of Predestination: Westminster or New Haven?" The Cumberland Seminarian 18 (Winter 1980): 27-36. [The Bowen Lectures - Lecture III]

"The Status of the Westminster Doctrine of Predestination in Contemporary American Presbyterian Theology: In the Potter's Field or Alive and Well?" The Cumberland Seminarian 18 (Winter 1980): 37-49. [The Bowen Lectures - Lecture IV]