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Davis College Homecoming:
September 25, 26, and 27, 2008
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Elmer Towns
Dr. Elmer Towns
is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and
scholarly
 works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar
lecturer, and
dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed
over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He began
teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, for three
years and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing
his own. He has published over 50 books listed in the Library of
Congress, 4 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List;
several becoming accepted as college textbooks. He is also the 1995
recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the
Christian
Booksellers Association for writing the Book of the Year,
The Names of the Holy Spirit.
He was President
of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive
American Accreditation and Provincial authority to offer degrees
(1960-1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in
Greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and
Evangelism (1965-1971).
He is co-founder
of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only
full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today,
the University has over 10,000 students on campus and he is the Vice
President of Liberty University and Dean of the School of Religion.
Dr. Towns has
given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50
theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting
professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000
reference and/or popular articles and received four honorary
doctoral degrees. Three doctoral dissertations have analyzed his
contribution to religious education and evangelism.
His personal
education includes a B.A. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a
MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois and a
D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
His wife of 55
years, Ruth, teaches a Christian Woman class at Liberty
University. They have three children and ten grandchildren. |
