The W.B. West Jr. Lectures for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship honor Dr. W.B. West Jr., founding dean of the School of Theology. Dr. West served the School of Theology as dean until 1972 and as professor of New Testament until his retirement in 1978. These lectures, presented by the Student Association at HST, bring outstanding Christian scholars to the campus to speak on subjects of current interest in the church.
- 1976, Everett Ferguson
- 1977, Neil R. Lightfoot
- 1978, Flavil R. Yeakley, Jr.
- 1979, Jerry Rushford
- 1980, Harvey Floyd
- 1981, Neale Pryor
- 1982, Carl Mitchell
- 1983, Dowell Flatt
- 1984, John T. Willis
- 1985, Landon Saunders
- 1986, Abraham J. Malherbe
- 1987, Frank Pack
- 1988, Rubel Shelly
- 1989, James W. Thompson
- 1990, Jack P. Lewis
- 1991, Jack Vancil
- 1992, Richard Hughes
- 1993, John Mark Hicks
- 1994, James Walters
- 1996, John Wilson & Jack Lewis
- 1997, Leon Sanderson, Jerry Rushford, & Cliff Ganus III
- 1998, James Walters, Evertt W. Huffard, Charlie Middlebrook, Anthony Wood, and Frank Lott
- 2000, John Mark Hicks
- 2001, David Edwin Harrell
- 2002, Stafford North & Jeff Childers
- 2002, Carl Holladay
- 2004, Jack Cottrell
- 2004, John Wilson
- 2005, John D. Fortner
- 2006, Ron Clark
- 2007, Everett Ferguson
- 2008, Ron Highfield
- 2009, Lee Camp
- 2010, Jack Lewis and John Willis
- 2011, George Guthrie
- But We See Jesus: The Incarnation and the Tensions of Life, part 1 and part 2
- 2012, Daniel Rodriguez
- Planting and Nurturing Multiracial/Multiethnic Churches
- 2013, Richard Oster
- New Creation in Revelation