Charles Edward Fuller

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Charles Edward Fuller (born April 25, 1887 in Los Angeles , † March 18, 1968 in Pasadena ) was an American Christian fundamentalist clergyman and producer of missionary radio broadcasts.

Life

Fuller was born the son of an orange grower in California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1910, he worked in his parents' business near Redlands , but also worked in real estate trading , leasing land to oil companies and transporting .

During a missionary event with the Christian fundamentalist preacher Paul Rader in 1916, he experienced a conversion . He began teaching adults Sunday school at Placentia Presbyterian Church . Eventually he gave up his professional activities and trained as a pastor at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles . There he studied the teachings of Reuben A. Torrey, which shaped his view of dispensational premillenarianism . In 1925, Fuller founded the Calvary Church as an independent church because he was dissatisfied with the high level of social work in the Placentia Presbyterian Church . He was ordained by a group of Baptist churches affiliated with the fundamentalist Baptist Bible Union . In 1930 he began broadcasting church services and Bible lessons on local radio stations. In 1933 Fuller left the community service to devote himself entirely to his radio activities. To this end, he founded his own missionary organization, the Gospel Broadcasting Association . He produced the Radio Revival Hour . The program was broadcast on Sundays, from 1939 under the name The Old Fashioned Revival Hour with national coverage. The program was then broadcast on changing channels and finally discontinued in 1963.

Fuller was the sponsor and co-founder of the Fuller Theological Seminary , founded in Pasadena in 1947 , whose first president was the evangelical Harold John Ockenga , who had previously been the first president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) from 1942 to 1944 . Ockenga, more open-minded than Fuller, pursued a different theological direction as the seminary leader than Fuller and sought to throw off Fuller's theological legacy of narrow pre-millennial fundamentalism, to question the habitual insistence on the inerrancy of the Bible, and to avoid a separatist course .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Randall Herbert Balmer: Fuller, Charles E (dward) (1887–1968) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 275 (English).
  2. ^ Bob Lochte, Christian Radio: The Growth of a Mainstream Broadcasting Force , McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina 2006, p. 27
  3. ^ Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals: Charles Fuller. Wheaton College, archived from the original on June 27, 2012 ; accessed on June 27, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Derek J. Tidball: Stimulus Evangelical . Ed .: Dieter Sackmann. Edition Anker in the Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7675-7058-0 , p. 130 (English, original title: Who are the Evangelicals? - Tracing the roots of today's movements . Translated by Dieter Sackmann).
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Charles Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuller, Charles E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American producer of Christian radio programs, founder of a Bible school
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1968
Place of death Pasadena