{{Short description|American pastor and professor}} '''Charles Jahleel Woodbridge''' (1902 - 1995) was an American Presbyterian missionary, minister, seminary professor, founding member of the [[National Association of Evangelicals]], and author of ''The New Evangelicalism''.
==Family and education== Woodbridge was born in [[Zhenjiang|Chinkiang, China]] on January 24, 1902, to Presbyterian missionaries [[Samuel Isett Woodbridge|Samuel Isett]] and Jeanie Wilson (Woodrow) Woodbridge, Sr. His father traced his ancestors to [[John Woodbridge]], a [[Lollardy|Lollard]] preacher in 15th century England; his mother was a first cousin to US President [[Woodrow Wilson]].<ref name="Hitler">{{cite book|title=Hitler in the Crosshairs: A GI's Story of Courage and Faith|author=Maurice Possley, John Woodbridge|year=2011|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=978-0310578550}}</ref> He earned degrees at [[Princeton University]], [[Princeton Theological Seminary]], and [[Duke University]], and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1927.<ref name="Encyclopedia">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism|author=Randall Herbert Balmer|year=2002|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=0664224091}}</ref> He was married on March 4, 1930 to Ruth Eyman Dunning,<ref name="Hitler"/> and had four children. He completed his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] at Duke University in 1945 with a dissertation titled ''The Chronicle of [[Salimbene di Adam | Salimbene of Parma]]: a Thirteenth Century Christian Synthesis''.<ref>https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000926091</ref>
==Career== Woodbridge served as pastor at First Presbyterian Church in [[Flushing, New York]] for several years before following the call to become a missionary to [[French Cameroons]] in 1932. Just a few years later, he was appointed by one of his seminary mentors, [[John Gresham Machen]], to serve as secretary general for the newly formed [[Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions]]. Both he and Machen were later censured by the Presbyterian Church because of their defense of orthodoxy against [[Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy|liberal and modernist theology]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> In 1937, Woodbridge became pastor at First Presbyterian Church of [[Salisbury, North Carolina]], and in 1945 became pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church in [[Savannah, Georgia]].<ref name="Hitler"/> In 1947, he was one of the original prospects recruited for the newly founded [[Fuller Theological Seminary]], and though he initially declined the offer, in 1950 he finally joined the faculty.<ref name="Fuller">{{cite book|title=Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism|author=George M. Marsden|year=1995|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=0802808700}}</ref> During the summers, he also served as a Bible teacher for [[Word of Life Fellowship]] in [[Schroon, New York|Schroon Lake]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> In 1952, he served as president of the [[Evangelical Theological Society]]. In 1957, Woodbridge resigned his position at Fuller due to his conviction that the seminary was leaving Fundamentalism for the New Evangelicalism.<ref name="Fuller"/> Woodbridge remained a staunch separatist and was critical of movements such as [[Billy Graham]]'s preaching campaigns,<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Evangelicalism|author=Charles Jahleel Woodbridge|year=1969|publisher=Bob Jones University Press}}</ref> and [[Campus Crusade]]'s [[Four Spiritual Laws]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Campus Crusade: Examined in the Light of Scripture|author=Charles Jahleel Woodbridge|year=1970|publisher=Bob Jones University Press}}</ref>
==Death== Woodbridge died on July 16, 1995. He had been living in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington.<ref>SSDI</ref>
==Publications== *''Standing on the Promises: Rich Truths from the Book of Acts'' (1947) *''A Handbook of Christian Truth'', co-authored with [[Harold Lindsell]] (1953) *''Romans: The Epistle of Grace'' (1953) *''Bible Prophecy'' (1962) *''The New Evangelicalism'' (1969)
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