2009, ISBN: 9781156898284

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Rubel Shelly is an author, minister, and the current president of Rochester College. He served as Senior Minister for the Family of God at Woodmont Hills in Nashville, Tennessee from 1978 until 2005. He was named the president of Rochester College in May 2009 and currently serves as a co-minister for Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Rubel Shelly is an author, minister, and the current president of Rochester College. He served as Senior Minister for the Family of God at Woodmont Hills in Nashville, Tennessee from 1978 until 2005. He was named the president of Rochester College in May 2009 and currently serves as a co-minister for the Bristol Road Church of Christ in Flint, Michigan. Shelly was educated at Harding University (B.A.), Harding Graduate School of Religion (M.A, M. Th.), and Vanderbilt University (M.A, Ph.D.). Although known primarily as a preacher, Shelly's debates and academic lectures on Christian apologetics, ethics, and medical ethics have won him several teaching appointments. Shelly has also served with such groups as the AIDS Education Committee of the American Red Cross. He taught at Freed-Hardeman College (now Freed-Hardeman University). While preaching at Woodmont Hills, he also taught at Lipscomb University, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Tennessee State University. Additionally, he has taught at Pepperdine University, Abilene Christian University, Emmanuel Seminary, and Kentucky Christian College. In 2005, he became Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Rochester College, and eventually began serving as interim President before being named President of the College. Shelly's career, spanning decades, saw an abrupt shift in tone in the 1980s, perhaps best represented by his book I Just Want to Be a Christian, a radical plea for non-denominationalism. (Peruse Shelly's titles below to get a sense of this shift.) Shelly had started out as a boy preacher in the Churches of Christ, writing several books containing what some have called "sound teaching" , yet eventually Shelly became disenchanted with what he has called a "language. More: Books, , Tennessee-State-University-Faculty~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<