Ruth Carter Stapleton
Ruth Carter Stapleton (born August 7, 1929 in Plains , † September 26, 1983 ) was an American Baptist preacher .
Life
Ruth Carter was one of four children of James Earl Carter (1894-1953) and Bessie Lillian Gordy (1898-1983). Her older brother is former US President Jimmy Carter . After a severe depression in the 1950s, she practiced and advocated Inner Healing , an approach that includes physical exercises in addition to spiritual rebirth , prayer , meditation , psychology and dieting . Stapleton ran Behold Inc. , a not-for-profit organization that promoted their religious views and beliefs.
Works
- Power Through Release , Macalester Park Pub. Co, 1968
- In His Footsteps , Harper & Row, 1973
- The Gift of Inner Healing , Word Books, 1976
- Brother Billy , Harper & Row, 1978
- The Experience of Inner Healing , Bantam Books, 1979
- In His Footsteps: The Healing Ministry of Jesus, Then and Now , Harper and Row, 1979
Web links
- Literature by and about Ruth Carter Stapleton in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Carter Family on New Georgia Encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randall Herbert Balmer: Stapleton, Ruth Carter (1929-1983) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 652 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stapleton, Ruth Carter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American evangelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plains |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1983 |