Background
Stafford, Gilbert Wayne was born on December 30, 1938 in Portageville, Missouri, United States. Son of Dawsey Calvin and Orell Elvesta (Smith) Stafford.
(Gilbert W. Stafford introduces the reader to seven very i...)
Gilbert W. Stafford introduces the reader to seven very important leaders in the Church of God reformation movement: Daniel Sidney Warner, H. M. Riggle, Frederick G. Smith, Charles E. Brown, Earl L. Martin, and Albert F. Gray. Find how their emphases helped form a movement's theology.
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Stafford, Gilbert Wayne was born on December 30, 1938 in Portageville, Missouri, United States. Son of Dawsey Calvin and Orell Elvesta (Smith) Stafford.
AB, Anderson College, 1961. Master of Divinity, Andover Newton Theological School, 1964. Doctor of Theology, Boston University, 1973.
He was well known inside and outside his church group for his enthusiastic teaching and preaching. Additionally, he contributed in the field of Christian scholarship offering many books and articles from a Wesleyan-holiness perspective. His most substantial work was Theology Foreign Disciples, published in 1996.
Stafford was born in Portageville, Missouri, on December 30, 1938 to District of Columbia and Orell Stafford.
He graduated from Mountain. Carmel High School in 1956 and Anderson College in 1961.
Believing God wished him to be a minister, he enrolled in the Anderson University School of Theology in 1960. Stafford received his Master of Divinity degree at Andover Newton Theological School, along with his Doctor of Theology from Boston University in 1973.
Doctor Stafford began work at the Anderson School of Theology as professor of systematic theology in 1976.
He played a major role in developing Anderson"s Doctor of Ministry degree before his retirement in 2007. Doctor Stafford died from cancer in the spring of 2008.
(Gilbert W. Stafford introduces the reader to seven very i...)
Member Wesleyan Theological Society, American Academy Religion.
Married Darlene Dawn Covert, December 30, 1962. Children: Matthew, Heather, Anne, Joshua.