George Eldon Ladd (July 31, 1911 – October 5, 1982) was an American preacher, Baptist minister, and scholar whose ministry bridged pastoral work and academic theology, shaping evangelical thought on the Kingdom of God across four decades. Born in Alberta, Canada, to George Trumbull Ladd, a laborer who died when George was five, and Ethel May Ladd, he moved with his mother to New England, growing up in poverty. Converted in 1929 at 18 after hearing a Gordon College graduate preach in a Methodist church, he studied at Gordon College (B.Th., 1933) and Gordon Divinity School (B.D., 1942), later earning a Ph.D. in Biblical and Patristic Greek from Harvard in 1949 under Henry J. Cadbury. Ladd’s preaching career began with ordination in the Northern Baptist Convention in 1933, pastoring churches in Gilford, New Hampshire (1934–1936), Montpelier, Vermont (1936–1942), and Dorchester, Massachusetts (1942–1945), while teaching Greek at Gordon College (1942–1945). Joining Fuller Theological Seminary in 1950, he preached and taught New Testament theology until 1980, influencing thousands with sermons on inaugurated eschatology—God’s Kingdom as “already but not yet”—preserved on SermonIndex.net. A critic of dispensationalism, he authored A Theology of the New Testament (1974) and The Gospel of the Kingdom (1959). Married to Winifred Grace Clippinger in 1936, with whom he had two children—David and Ruth—he died at age 71 in Pasadena, California, from cirrhosis following a 1980 stroke.