Full name |
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry |
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Birth |
January 22, 1913 in New York City |
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Death |
December 7, 2003 in Watertown, Wisconsin, USA |
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Family |
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Parents |
Karl and Johanna (Vaethroeder) Henry |
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Siblings |
Eleanor, Isabella and Johanna |
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Marital Status |
Married Helga Irmgard Bender August 17, 1940 at the chapel of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Children |
Paul Brentwood, Carol Jennifer |
Conversion |
At the age of 20 through conversation with acquaintance Gene Bedford |
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Ordination |
by the Council of Baptist Churches of the Chicago Baptist Association on January 19, 1941. |
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Education |
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1929 |
Graduated from Islip High School in Islip, New York, United States |
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1935-1938 |
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA; graduated with B.A. |
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1939-1940 |
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA; M.A. in theology |
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1940-1941 |
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, USA; B.D. |
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1941-1942 |
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, USA; Th. D. |
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194?-1949 |
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Ph.D. in philosophy |
Career |
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1929-1933 |
Started as proofreader at the Smithtown Star newspaper in Nassau County, New York, USA; eventually became editor. He also worked at various times as a stringer for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and Chicago Tribune. |
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1938-1947 |
Taught theology for brief periods at Wheaton College during these years |
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1940-1942 |
Assistant professor of theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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1942-1947 |
Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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1947 |
Acting Dean of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA |
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1947-1956 |
Professor of Theology and Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA |
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1947 |
Published The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism |
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1948 |
Published Remaking the Modern Mind |
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1948-1956 |
Co-chairman of the annual Sunrise Easter Service at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, USA |
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1952-1953 |
Daily radio program, Let the Chips Fall, station KPOL, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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1956-1970 |
Member of the Board of Administration of the National Association of Evangelicals. He had been associated with the NAE in one way or another from its founding in 1943. |
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1956-1968 |
With L. Nelson bell and Billy Graham helped plan Christianity Today; served as the magazine’s first editor |
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1957-1969 |
Editor of the Contemporary Evangelical Thought series |
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1957 |
Published Christian Personal Ethics |
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1966 |
Chairman and one of the chief planners with Billy Graham of the World Congress on Evangelism, which met in berlin Germany |
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1967 |
With Billy Graham convened the meeting of church leaders that resulted in the Key ‘73 national evangelistic effort |
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1967-1970 |
President of the Evangelical Theological Society |
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1968 |
Was one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (IFACS) |
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1969-1974 |
Professor of theology, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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1971 |
Program chairman of the Jerusalem Conference on Biblical Prophecy |
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1971-1974 |
President of IFACS |
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1973 |
Editor of Baker’s Dictionary of Christian Ethics |
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1974-1987 |
Theologian at large, World Vision International |
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1976-1983 |
Published God, Revelation, and Authority in six volumes |
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1976-1979 |
Member of the board of director of IFACS |
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1979-1980 |
President of the American Theological Society |
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1981-1985, 1988-? |
Member of the board of director of IFACS |
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1986 |
Published Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography |
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1987 |
Carl F. H. Henry Study and Resource Center was established in his name, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, USA |
Other significant information |
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Visiting professor or special lecturer at many universities and seminaries around the world (including Asian Center for Theological Studies and Missions, Bethel Theological Seminary, Christian Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College, Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, Gordon Divinity School, Hillsdale College, Hong Kong Baptist College, Latin American Theological Seminary, Soong Sil University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Winona Lake Summer School of Theology) and author of many articles and more than 25 books |
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1963 |
Honorary Litt. D. Degree from Seattle Pacific College |
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1966 |
Freedoms Foundation Medal |
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1968 |
D. Letters, Wheaton College |
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1971 |
Distinguished Social Service Award, Wheaton College Alumni Association |
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1973 |
L.H.D., Houghton College |
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1975 |
Religious Heritage of America Foundation award in America |
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1979 |
Northwestern College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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1984 |
LL. D., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
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1990 |
National Association of Evangelicals. J. Elwin Wright Award |
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1992 |
Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Distinguished Service Award |
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1993 |
Religious Heritage of America Foundation, gold award for fifty years of spiritual and moral leadership |