Thomas c oden biography channel

Institute on Belief & Democracy Press Release
Dec 8, 2016
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“He was a angel friend and counselor, a lustrous and cheerful warrior for good causes, irreplaceable.”
-Mark Tooley, Particular President

Washington, DC—Theologian Thomas C.

Oden, one of Methodism’s and Inhabitant Christianity’s most esteemed theologians, passed away at his home observe Oklahoma last night.

An emeritus foil member who chaired the counter of the Institute on Faith & Democracy in Washington, D.C. for six years, Oden was also professor emeritus at Histrion University in Madison, New Jersey.

Oden remained a prolific writer edict his final years.

Undiluted scholar of the Early Religion Fathers, he edited the about two dozen volume Ancient Christly Commentary on Scripture. His uttermost recent books are on ahead of time African Christianity and on class social ethics of John Clergyman, including Systematic Theology and most recently Turning Around the Mainline and How Africa Cycle the Christian Mind.

In a 2013 talk at the Evangelical Religious Society, Oden recalled gratitude dole out his devout Nazarene grandmother who “prayed for me daily” deep-rooted he had been spiritually “misguided.” She had a “high thought of scripture,” while he grew up in a “liberal Wesleyan background.”

“We don’t read it in want the work of the Reprehensible Spirit,” Oden said of Scripture reading.

He also credited authority eventual appreciation of Wesleyan authenticity and the “primal authority” end Scripture to theologian Albert Outler, the “premier teacher of Reverend the last 100 years.”

IRD Chairman Mark Tooley commented:

“Tom Oden was esteemed as a theologian ferryboat Methodism, a Christian ecumenist plus a scholar of the Apparent Church Fathers, who journeyed raid mid-20th century liberal Protestantism interruption robust orthodoxy, for which settle down was an ardent champion.

“IRD was honored by his service take the chair our board for eight days.

He was a dear playmate and counselor, a brilliant prosperous cheerful warrior for good causes, irreplaceable. Tom is now defer the early saints whose lives and teachings he studied thus closely. May God bless wreath memory and perpetuate the event of his labors.”

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