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R.C. Sproul

Robert Charles Sproul was an American theologian, author, or ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was also the chairman of Ligonier Ministries and also had a radio program which could be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. His ministry Ligonier Ministries produced the Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy which would eventually grow into 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Alongside Norman Geisler was one of the Chief Architects. Robert has been described as the greatest and most influential Proponent of the recovery of Reformed Theology in the last century. Rc Sproul Age He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1939. Rc Sproul Family Sproul was the second child of Robert Cecil Sproul who was an accountant and a veteran of World War 2 and his wife Mayre Ann Sproul. Rc Sproul Education Sproul was a devoted supporter of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates as a youth. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school athletics in order to support his family. He obtained degrees from Westminister College, Pennsylvania in 1961, later Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary M.Div in 1964. He then went to Free University of Amsterdam Drs., in 1969 and Whitefield Theological Seminary Ph.D., in 2001. Rc later taught at a number of colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and in Jackson, Mississipi, and Knox Theological Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale. Rc Sproul Wife He married Vesta in 1960 Rc Sproul Children They were blessed with two children namely Sherrie Darotiak and Robert Craig Sproul. Rc Sproul Career Ligonier Ministries hosts several theological conferences each year, including the main conference in Orlando, FL, at which Sproul was one of the primary speakers. Also served as co-pastor at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, a congregation in Sanford, Florida. He was ordained as an elder in the United Presbyterian Church in the USA in 1965, but left that denomination around 1975 and joined the Presbyterian Church in America. Sproul was also a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Sproul was an ardent advocate of Calvinism in his many prints, audio, and video publications, and he was also known for his advocacy of the Thomistic (classical) approaches to Christian apologetics, less common among Reformed apologists, most of whom prefer presuppositionalism. A dominant theme in many of Sproul’s Renewing Your Mind lessons is the holiness and sovereignty of God. Sproul, a staunch critic of the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic theology, denounced the 1994 ecumenical document Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Rc Sproul Health and Death On April 18, 2015, Sproul suffered a stroke and was admitted to a hospital. Five days later, on April 23, Dr. Sproul went home from the hospital, suffering no ill effects. He was, however, diagnosed with a diabetic condition “that be addressed through diet and regular medical attention.” Sproul had long suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and on December 2, 2017, he was hospitalized when his respiratory difficulties were exacerbated by flu. Despite medical efforts to restore respiratory function, he died on December 14, 2017, at the age of 78.