Background
Grounds was born July 19, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the youngest of three children born to John and Bertha Grounds.
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Grounds was born July 19, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the youngest of three children born to John and Bertha Grounds.
He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy (1960) from Drew University.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1937) from Rutgers University. He went on to join the inaugural class of Faith Theological Seminary in Wilmington, Delaware, earning his Bachelor of Divinity, and becoming part of a group that included notable evangelical leaders such as Arthur Glasser, Kenneth Kantzer, Joseph Bayly, and Francis Schaeffer. On June 17, 1939, Grounds married Ann Barton, with whom he has one child, a daughter.
While pursuing his degrees, Grounds served as pastor at the Gospel Tabernacle in Paterson, New Jersey from 1934 until 1945.
During this time, he also taught at the American Seminary of the Bible in Wayne, New Jersey, the Hawthorne Evening Bible School, and King"s College (then in Belmar, New Jersey). His full-time teaching career began in 1945, when he became dean and professor of theology and apologetics at Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Johnson City, New New York
He served there until 1951, when he moved to Denver to become academic dean at the Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary. He later served as president from 1956 until retiring in 1979.
Grounds continued in a teaching and counseling role as president emeritus, and was named chancellor in 1993, where he actively served until his death.
In 1963, Grounds served a term as president of the Evangelical Theological Society. A festschrift honoring Grounds, titled Christian Freedom, edited by Stanley Grenz and Kenneth Wozniak, was published in 1986. His biography, titled Transformed by Love: The Vernon Grounds Story, written by Bruce L. Shelley was published in 2003.
Grounds was also awarded honorary degrees from Wheaton College and Gordon College.
He died September 12, 2010, at a nursing facility in Wichita, Kansas. Upon his death, George West. Truett Theological Seminary professor and Patheos blogger Roger East. Olsen memorialized Grounds as "a model post-fundamentalist, centrist evangelical".
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