R. A. Torrey
An evangelist who had been superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and was by 1915 dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. He wrote for The Fundamentals and edited its last two volumes.
The first volume of The Fundamentals contains an essay by Torrey on the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit (The Fundamentals, vol. 1, contents). The statement of the two laymen in the twelfth volume names him among the original committee that supervised the series and as editor of volumes 11 and 12. It adds that he had for many years been superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, had left it for work as an evangelist in many countries, and was now dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, whose magazine The King’s Business he would edit as a continuation of the series (The Fundamentals, vol. 12, pp. 3–5). See the Fundamentals and the Modernist Controversy.
In the timeline
- 1910 to 1925, firm dateThe Fundamentals and the Modernist Controversy
Twelve volumes called The Fundamentals are sent free to Protestant ministers from about 1910. In the 1920s a dispute between Fundamentalists and liberals over the Bible, miracles and modern knowledge divides American churches and reaches a courtroom at Dayton.