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词条 Vernon Grounds
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Academic career

  3. Legacy and death

  4. Publications

  5. References

Vernon Carl Grounds (July 19, 1914 – September 12, 2010) was an American theologian, Christian educator, Chancellor of Denver Seminary, and one of the founders of American evangelicalism.[1]

Early life and education

Grounds was born July 19, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey,[2] the youngest of three children born to John and Bertha Grounds. He earned his B.A. (1937) from Rutgers University. He went on to join the inaugural class of Faith Theological Seminary in Wilmington, Delaware, earning his B.D., and becoming part of a group that included notable evangelical leaders such as Arthur Glasser, Kenneth Kantzer, Joseph Bayly, and Francis Schaeffer.[3] On June 17, 1939, Grounds married Ann Barton, with whom he has one child, a daughter, as well as three grandchildren.[2] He went on to earn his Ph.D. (1960) from Drew University.[4]

Academic career

While pursuing his degrees, Grounds served as pastor at the Gospel Tabernacle in Paterson, New Jersey from 1934 until 1945. During this time, he also taught at the American Seminary of the Bible in Wayne, New Jersey, the Hawthorne Evening Bible School, and King's College (then in Belmar, New Jersey).[4] His full-time teaching career began in 1945, when he became dean and professor of theology and apologetics at Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Johnson City, New York. He served there until 1951, when he moved to Denver to become academic dean at the Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary. He later served as president from 1956 until retiring in 1979. Grounds continued in a teaching and counseling role as president emeritus, and was named chancellor in 1993, where he actively served until his death.[5]

Legacy and death

In 1963, Grounds served a term as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.[6] A festschrift honoring Grounds, titled Christian Freedom, edited by Stanley Grenz and Kenneth Wozniak, was published in 1986. His biography, titled Transformed by Love: The Vernon Grounds Story, written by Bruce L. Shelley was published in 2003.[7] Grounds was also awarded honorary degrees from Wheaton College and Gordon College. He died September 12, 2010, at a nursing facility in Wichita, Kansas.[2] Upon his death, George W. Truett Theological Seminary professor and Patheos blogger Roger E. Olsen memorialized Grounds as "a model post-fundamentalist, centrist evangelical".[8]

Publications

Grounds was the author of five books, including:

  • The Reason for Our Hope (1945)
  • Evangelicalism and Social Responsibility (1969) {{ISBN|0836116011}}
  • Revolution and the Christian Faith: An Evangelical Perspective (1971) {{ISBN|1556353758}}
  • Emotional Problems and the Gospel (1976) {{ISBN|031025311X}}
  • Radical commitment: getting serious about Christian growth (1984) {{ISBN|0880700513}}; later republished as YBH - Yes, but how? (1998) {{ISBN|0929239504}}

Grounds was also a contributing editor for Christianity Today and wrote more than 500 articles for Our Daily Bread from 1993 until 2009.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=How to Finish the Christian Life: Following Jesus in the Second Half|author=Sweeting, Donald W & George|publisher=Moody Publishers|year=2012|isbn=080248297X}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Longtime Denver Seminary president Vernon Grounds dies at 96|newspaper=The Denver Post|date=2010-09-19|author=Culver, Virginia|url=http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_16113403#ixzz2YTv0N6eC}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=A Man for All Evangelicals|journal=Christianity Today|author=Wenig, Scott|date=November 2010|volume=54|issue=11|page=50|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/november/24.50.html}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Biography of Dr. Vernon Grounds|url=http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/biography-of-dr-vernon-grounds/|access-date=2013-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029095613/http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/biography-of-dr-vernon-grounds/|archive-date=2014-10-29|dead-url=yes|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Longtime Christian Leader, Vernon Grounds, Dies at 96|publisher=National Association of Evangelicals|url=http://www.nae.net/resources/news/485-longtime-christian-leader-vernon-grounds-dies-at-96|access-date=2013-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110003046/http://www.nae.net/resources/news/485-longtime-christian-leader-vernon-grounds-dies-at-96|archive-date=2014-01-10|dead-url=yes|df=}}
6. ^{{cite journal|title=Minutes of the Fourteenth Annual National Meeting|journal=JETS|year=1963|volume=6|issue=1|url=http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/6/6-1/BETS_6-1_28-31_Minutes.pdf}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=Transformed by Love: The Vernon Grounds Story|author=Shelley, Bruce L.|year=2003|publisher=Discovery House Publishers|isbn=1572930659}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Another evangelical hero passes to glory|author=Roger E. Olsen|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2010/09/another-evangelical-hero-passes-to-glory/|date=September 13, 2010}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Vernon C. Grounds|url=http://odb.org/authors/vernongrounds/}}
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