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Elmer Towns
Elmer Towns (born 1932) is co-founder of Liberty University, the largest private, non-profit university in the world. Towns is also a prominent Christian leader, author and speaker on the principles of church growth, church leadership, Christian education, Sunday School, and prayer and fasting. He has authored over 170 books, 8 of which are listed on the Christian Booksellers Association Best Selling List. In 1995, he received the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Booksellers Association for Book of the Year in Biblical Study, ''The Names of the Holy Spirit''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Christian Book Expo: 1995 Gold Medallion Book Awards Winners )〕 Most recently Towns served as Dean of the B. R. Lakin School of Religion, Dean of Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary and Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Liberty University. In the Fall of 2013, Towns announced he would be taking a sabbatical from his teaching and administration duties to focus on speaking and writing.
== Early Life and Education ==
On October 21, 1932, Elmer Leon Towns, Jr. was born to Elmer Leon Towns, Sr., and Erin McFaddin Towns in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of three children. Senior Towns was a clerk at a local hardware store. Though Elmer Sr. made middle class wages, his addiction to alcohol strained the family’s finances and eventually claimed his life. Despite the difficulties at home, Towns Jr. was consistent in attending Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church as an adolescent, though he believes his real conversion to Christianity was in 1950, at the edge of his bed following an evangelistic meeting earlier in the evening.
Towns attended Columbia Bible College for three years (1950-1953) before transferring his senior year to Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and completing hisBachelor of Arts degree. He also married his wife Ruth Jean Forbes in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet Elmer Towns )〕 He then attended Dallas Theological Seminary in pursuit of a Master of Theology degree. While in that program, Towns also enrolled in Southern Methodist University to study for a Master of Arts degree in Education. He received both Masters degrees in 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doctor of Ministry Thesis: A Chronological Presentation of the Writings of Elmer Leon Towns from 1999-2005, Noting the Interrelatedness of His Teachings and Writings from 1980-2005 by Gabriel Benjamin Etzel )〕 A teaching post at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School moved Towns to Deerfield, Illinois, where he earned his Masters of Religious Education from nearby Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois in 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doctor of Ministry Thesis: A Chronological Presentation of the Writings of Elmer Leon Towns from 1999-2005, Noting the Interrelatedness of His Teachings and Writings from 1980-2005 by Gabriel Benjamin Etzel )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Biggest Sets Up Doubling Goal )〕 Following an extended break from being a student, he attendedFuller Theological Seminary and received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1983.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doctor of Ministry Thesis: A Chronological Presentation of the Writings of Elmer Leon Towns from 1999-2005, Noting the Interrelatedness of His Teachings and Writings from 1980-2005 by Gabriel Benjamin Etzel )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Liberty University Faculty Biography of Elmer Towns )〕
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