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Everett Ferguson

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Everett Ferguson
Ferguson in 2014
Born (1933-02-18) February 18, 1933 (age 91)
United States
EducationAbilene Christian University, Harvard University
OccupationProfessor
EmployerAbilene Christian University
Known forEarly Christianity
Spouse(s)Nancy Ann Lewis Ferguson (m. June 25th, 1956; d. July 16, 2020)
Children3

Everett Ferguson (born February 18, 1933) currently serves as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.[1] He is author of numerous books on early Christian studies and served as co-editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.

Early life and education

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He received both his undergraduate bachelor's degree and his first master's degree from Abilene Christian University in the mid-1950s.[2] He immediately proceeded to Harvard University and received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology followed by a doctoral degree "with distinction" in History and Philosophy of Religion.[3]

Awards and honors

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During his education, Ferguson received such honors as the Honorary John Harvard Fellowship and Harvard Graduate School Fellowship. He later received awards from the Christian Research Foundation for both his dissertation, "Ordination in the Ancient Church," and for a translation of Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses. He was selected to speak as the John G. Gammie Senior Lecturer of the Southwest Commission for Religious Studies. He was later presented with a festschrift, The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honor of Everett Ferguson.[3]

Memberships

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Dr. Ferguson was a council member of the Association Internationale D'Etudes Patristiques,[3] which seeks "to promote the study of Christian antiquity, especially the Fathers of the Church, without prejudice to work undertaken in this domain in various countries."[4] He served for a term on the council of the American Society of Church History, and has also previously served as president of the North American Patristics Society (1990-1992), from which he received the Distinguished Service Award for more than thirty years of service.[2]

Bibliography

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Monographs

  • The Early Church at Work and Worship. Vol 3 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017.) ISBN 9781498285902
  • The Rule of Faith: A Guide. (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015.) ISBN 9781625647597
  • Women in the Church: Biblical and Historical Perspective. (Abilene, TX: Desert Willow Publishing, 2015.) ISBN 9781939838193
  • The Early Church at Work and Worship. Vol 2 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2014.) ISBN 9781498205528
  • The Early Church and Today. Vol. 2 (Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press, 2014.) ISBN 9780891125846
  • A Cappella Music in the Public Worship of the Church. (Abilene, TX: Desert Willow Publishing, 2013.) ISBN 9781939838032
  • Church History: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.) ISBN 9780310516569
  • The Early Church at Work and Worship. Vol 1 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2013.) ISBN 9781498212533
  • The Early Church and Today. Vol. 1 (Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press, 2011.) ISBN 9780891125860
  • Thinking--Living--Dying: Early Apologists Speak to the 21st Century. (Vienna, WV: Warren Christian Apologetics Center, 2010.) ISBN 9781936548019
  • Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.) ISBN 9780802871084
  • Church History: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.) ISBN 978-0310205807
  • Inheriting Wisdom: Readings for Today from Ancient Christian Writers. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004.) ISBN 978-1565633544
  • Women in the Church. (Chickasha, OK: Yeomen Press, 2003.)
  • Backgrounds of Early Christianity. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987; 3rd ed., 2003.) ISBN 978-0802822215
  • Early Christians Speak. Vol. 2 (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 2002.) ISBN 0-89112-046-7
  • Early Christians Speak. Vol. 1, 3rd ed. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1999.) ISBN 0-89112-045-9
  • Some Contemporary Issues Concerning Worship and the Christian Assembly. (Ohio Valley College, 1998).
  • The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996.) ISBN 978-0802841896
  • Church History, Early and Medieval. 2nd ed. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1996.) ISBN 978-0891121060
  • Justin Martyr on Jews, Christians and the Covenant. (Franciscan Printing Press, 1993.)
  • The Everlasting Kingdom: The Kingdom of God in Scripture and in Our Lives. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1989.)
  • A Cappella Music in the Public Worship of the Church. 2nd ed. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1988). ISBN 0891121250
  • Backgrounds of Early Christianity. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987). ISBN 0802802923
  • Acts of the Apostles: The Message of the New Testament. 2 vols. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1986.)
  • Demonology of the Early Christian World. (Em Text, 1984) ISBN 9780773408548
  • The Message of the New Testament: The Letters of John. (Abilene, TX: Biblical Research Press.) ISBN 0891121757
  • The New Testament Church. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1984.) ISBN 9780891125235
  • Inscriptions and the Origin of Infant Baptism. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
  • Progress in Perfection: Gregory of Nyssa's Vita Moysis. (Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1976)
  • Church History: Reformation and Modern. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1967.) ISBN 978-0891121077
  • Church History: Early and Medieval. (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1966.)

Edited Publications

References

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  1. ^ "Everett Ferguson," Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 30, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Thirty Years of Service Earn Former ACU Professor National Award," Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 30, 2008.
  3. ^ a b c "Dr. Everett Ferguson," accessed September 30, 2008.
  4. ^ "AIEP - Statutes," Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 30, 2008.