Charles E. Fuller

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

Life

Fuller was born as the son of an orange grower in California. After graduating from Pomona College in 1910, he worked in the family business with near Redlands, but was also active in the Real Estate, the leasing of lands to oil companies and the transport industry.

During a mission event with the Christian fundamentalist preacher Paul Rader in 1916 he experienced a conversion. He began to teach adults at Placentia Presbyterian Church in a Sunday school. Finally, he gave up his professional activities and trained as a Pastor at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. There he occupied himself with the teachings of Reuben A. Torrey, which shaped his views regarding the dispensational premillenarianism. In 1925, Fuller founded the Calvary Church as an independent church, because he was dissatisfied with the strong expression of social work in Placentia Presbyterian Church. He was ordained by a group of Baptist churches that were associated with the fundamentalist Baptist Bible Union. In 1930 he began to broadcast church services and Bible classes on local radio stations. In 1933, Fuller left the community service order henceforth to devote himself to his broadcasting activities. To this end, he founded his own missionary work, the Gospel Broadcasting Association. He has produced the Radio Revival Hour. The program was broadcast on Sundays, starting in the year 1939 under the name The Old Fashioned Revival Hour with national reach. The program was subsequently aired in changing channels and eventually discontinued in 1963.

Fuller was the financial backer and co-founder of the company founded in Pasadena in 1947 Fuller Theological Seminary, the first president of the evangelical Harold John Ockenga was, who had previously been from 1942 to 1944 the first President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE ). Ockenga, more open than Fuller, pursued as head of the seminar a different theological direction as Fuller and was anxious to the theological legacy Fuller, a close prämillenaristischen fundamentalism to drop to question the habitual insistence on the inerrancy of the Bible, and to prevent a separatist course.