Norman Franklin Douty

Background

Douty was born in Central Pennsylvania on January 14, 1899.

Career

He came to faith in 1910 and was licensed to preach in 1919. After graduating from seminary, he served as a pastor in several churches before taking up an itinerant ministry throughout the United States of America. He was called to serve as president of Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1944, but the original urge to preach induced him to leave his college post in 1945. He first took up conference work, then a pastorate.

He is best known for having authored a detailed refutation of "the false doctrine of limited atonement," and several other theological treatises.

He described himself as "a moderate Calvinist, a traditional Baptist, and a convinced premillennarian.. but a lover of all the saints, whatever their classification may be". Review Douty sold his collection of 4,000 books to Cornerstone University for $4500, payable in installments, giving the university"s John C. Miller Library a substantial jump start.

He died October 25, 1993 in Union County, Pennsylvania.

Works

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  • ANOTHER LOOK AT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM

    (224 pages)

  • Another look at Seventh-Day Adventism, with special reference, Questions on doctrine.
  • Union with Christ