Malcom Ollie "Mal" Couch, Jr. (July 12, 1938, Dallas, Texas, USA – February 12, 2013) was the founder and first president of the Tyndale Theological Seminary. He was a pastor, an author of many books, and writer of 40 documentaries on Bible prophecies and biblical issues. While president of Tyndale Theological Seminary Couch recruited some very well known scholars and Bible teachers to teach the student body. Dr. Norman Geisler, Dr. Paige Patterson, Dr. Robert Lightner, Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, and Paul Enns were used in the educational endeavors at Tyndale Seminary. After Dr. Couch retired from Tyndale Seminary he became a Vice President of the Scofield Graduate School and Seminary located in Modesto, California. Couch was part of the Pre-Trib Study Research Group that was founded by Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice. He was also a member of Tyndale Seminary's Conservative Theological Society. Education of Mal Couch Couch earned several degrees. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from John Brown University. Then he earned a Master of Arts from Wheaton College. From there he earned his Masters of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. While there Couch studied under some of the famous Dallas Dispensationalists like John Walvoord, Charles C. Ryrie, and J.D. Pentecost. He also earned a Doctor of Theology degree from Louisiana Baptist University. He also earned two additional degrees beyond his Th.D. with a D.D. and Philosophy Doctorate from Arkansas Biblical Graduate School. As a teacher, he taught at various colleges and seminaries throughout his career. He taught at Philadelphia College of the Bible (Now CAIRN University), Moody Bible Institute, and Dallas Theological Seminary. He founded Tyndale Theological Seminary and led as its president until his retirement. He then served as Vice President of Scofield Theological Seminary as he worked with various students he mentored through various academic degrees. Theology of Mal Couch Dr. Couch held to the full inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. He wrote "God Has Spoken: Inspiration and Inerrancy" to express this conviction. Couch affirmed an epistemological foundation that shows that the ultimate authority is sacred scripture. Mal's colleague Dr. Norman Geisler calls these two truths, inspiration and inerrancy, "epistemological fundamentals" which are "tests of evangelical veracity." Dr. Couch tenaciously held to the full, absolute, and errorless book known as the Holy Bible. Coupling that truth of inspiration and inerrancy Mal embraced along with its subsequent application of a historical grammatical interpretation