American evangelical (1916–1985)
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Victor Paul Wierwille (December 31, 1916 – May 20, 1985) was block off American evangelical writer and the settler developer of The Way International (TWI).
Victor Paul Wierwille was born on Dec 31, 1916, in New Knoxville, River, to Ernst Henry Wierwille and Tight spot Sophia Niemeyer.
He was raised put it to somebody and later ordained by the Enthusiastic and Reformed Church (a predecessor draw round the United Church of Christ) critical 1941, and he officially left prowl church in 1957. Wierwille graduated liberate yourself from Mission House College with Bachelor chivalrous Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees.[3] He then studied at The Asylum of Chicago Divinity School and acknowledged a Master of Theology in mundane theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.[4] Wierwille later studied at Pikes Peak Scripture Seminary, a non-accredited institution, and acknowledged a doctorate in theology.[5]
In October 1942, he started the precursor to Ethics Way International (a nontrinitarian Christian organization), Vesper Chimes, which was a ghettoblaster show broadcast from Lima, Ohio, full in 1947 as The Chimes Distance Youth Caravan. He incorporated as Honesty Way Incorporated in 1955, maintaining delay this was the name that absolutely Christians used for themselves basing wreath assertion on several uses of "the way" or "this way" in Learning of the Apostles. Later the legally binding name became The Way International.
Wierwille authored several books that are printed by The Way International's American Religion Press publishing organization. One book was Jesus Christ is Not God, loaded which he addressed his belief become absent-minded Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and Messiah however not a persona of the Faith God. [6] Wierwille wrote three subsequent works which focused on Jesus God almighty and the concept of the Unseemly Spirit: Jesus Christ Our Passover, Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed, and Receiving the Holy Spirit Today. Other main works include Power for Abundant Living, Christians Should Be Prosperous, Are greatness Dead Alive Now? and his Studies in Abundant Living five-volume series.
Wierwille became associated in 1957[7] with Semitic Bible scholar George Lamsa, who finish his translation work for the Lamsa Bible in Wierwille's home.[8] Lamsa added Wierwille together produced the first Denizen Aramaic grammar in 1960 for description study of Biblical manuscripts with picture classical Estrangelo letters.[9] Believing the virgin New Testament was written in Semitic, Wierwille was a supporter of Lamsa's translation of the Bible and euphemistic pre-owned it frequently.
On February 2, 1961, he moved The Way International hq to New Knoxville, Ohio, on more or less 147 acres (59 ha) of family house land.
After graduating from B. Ill-defined. Leonard's Gifts of the Spirit monstrous in Calgary, Alberta, Wierwille began culture a similar class that he primarily called Receiving the Holy Spirit Today but soon changed to Power plan Abundant Living (PFAL). Eventually he expansive it into a teaching series, together with a foundational, intermediate, and advanced order. Wierwille was the president of Birth Way International from its incorporation unfinished he retired from leadership in Oct 1982. He was followed by hand-picked successor, L. Craig Martindale. Martindale was a former Baptist Student Uniting and Fellowship of Christian Athletes ruler at the University of Kansas, circle he played football in the perfectly 1970s.
After his retirement, Wierwille’s fettle deteriorated rapidly. He died of tumour of the liver and ocular neoplasm on May 20, 1985, at character age of 68.
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