James William McClendon Jr. (1924–2000) was a Christian theologian and ethicist in the Anabaptist tradition,A Genetic History of Baptist Thought. William H. Brackney. Mercer University Press, 2004. . pp. 59-61, 510-514 though he preferred the term 'baptist' with a lower-case 'b'. He was married to philosopher Nancey Murphy, who is a senior faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary.
