Ford Lewis Battles

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Ford Lewis Battles (30 Jan 1915- 22 Nov 1979) was a professor of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, an American theologian and one of the foremost Calvin scholars on the study of John Calvin. He contributed much to the renaissance of Calvin studies this century, bequeathing his legacy in the masterly translation of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion published under the editorship of the equally distinguished Canadian-born scholar, Dr. John T. McNeill. [1]

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Battles was born in 1915 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.[2] He studied Classics from the University of West Virginia (AB, 1936), Master's from Tufts University (MA, 1938), studied under C. S. Lewis, and received his Ph.D. from Hartford Theological Seminary(PhD, 1950). He taught at Hartford Theological Seminary from 1950 to 1970, and was also a visiting professor of church history at Calvin Theological Seminary.[3] He translated Calvin's Latin Institutio Christianae Religionis into an English book, and he published several treatises on Calvin's theology with the early church fathers. He died in 1979 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [4] In 1945 Battles married Marion Davis. Battles and Marion had two daughters, Nancy Marion (b. 1946) and Emily Stewart (b. 1951).

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  1. ^ DR FORD LEWIS BATTLES: A PRAYER FOR THEOLOGICAL COLLEGES
  2. ^ Foreword to The Piety of John Calvin
  3. ^ Ford Lewis Battles
  4. ^ Ford Lewis Battles Collection, 1925-1980 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Librar
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