Jones, Robert "Bob" - Timeline Biography
Time Period
10-30-1883 - 01-16-1968
Description
Robert "Bob" Jones converted to Methodism at age 11 and was licensed to preach by the Alabama Methodist Conference at age 15.
As an evangelist, he was concerned by the effects of modernism and sin on society. Conservative religious education, he presumed, would help counter the sin of secular society. As a result, he founded and became the first president of Bob Jones College in St. Andrews Bay, Florida, in 1926. Eventually, Bob Jones College changed its name to Bob Jones University and moved to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1947, where it currently resides.
His fundamentalist, conservative Christian university remains the hallmark of Bob Jones, Sr.’s career, though he also was influential in founding the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942 and the National Religious Broadcasters in 1944.
As an evangelist, he was concerned by the effects of modernism and sin on society. Conservative religious education, he presumed, would help counter the sin of secular society. As a result, he founded and became the first president of Bob Jones College in St. Andrews Bay, Florida, in 1926. Eventually, Bob Jones College changed its name to Bob Jones University and moved to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1947, where it currently resides.
His fundamentalist, conservative Christian university remains the hallmark of Bob Jones, Sr.’s career, though he also was influential in founding the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942 and the National Religious Broadcasters in 1944.
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Religious Groups
Methodist/Pietist Family: Other ARDA LinksMethodist/Pietist Family: Religious Family Tree
Events
National Association of Evangelicals FoundedRelated Dictionary Terms
Evangelical ProtestantismPhotographs
Bob Jones portrait- Wikimedia Commons
Bob Jones bust- Wikimedia Commons- sculpture by Emery Bopp
Bob Jones and his wife- Wikimedia Commons
Book/Journal Source(s)
Reid, Daniel, Robert Linder, Bruce Shelley, and Harry Stout, 1990. Dictionary of Christianity in America Downers Grove, IL.Web Page Contributor
Benjamin T. GurrentzAffiliated with: Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Sociology
