Bruce L. Shelley

Bruce Leon Shelley was born on December 20, 1927, in Owensboro, Kentucky, and grew up during the Great Depression in Evansville, Indiana. After high school he served in the U.S. Army in Japan shortly after the Second World War. He then studied at Columbia Bible College in South Carolina, where he met Mary Harrington; they married in 1952 and had three children. He earned a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a doctorate in history from the University of Iowa. In 1957 he joined the faculty of Denver Seminary, where he taught church history and historical theology for more than fifty years. He was an ordained pastor and wanted to teach 'ordinary people' about Jesus Christ and his church. He wrote or edited more than twenty books, and his Church History in Plain Language (1982) became a standard textbook in colleges and churches. He died in Denver on February 20, 2010, after a stroke.

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Faith: An ordained pastor and church historian who taught at Denver Seminary for over 50 years. Source: Christianity Today

See also: Eusebius of Caesarea