Loraine Boettner

Boettner was born on March 7, 1901, in Linden, Missouri. His father, William Boettner, was a Christian school superintendent and had been born in Schwartzenhazel, Germany.Boettner, Loraine. (2013). A history of the Boettner family. Retrieved 2 November 2015. [https://content.byui.edu/items/d1a6216e-1bd6-4f5a-a83b-1abf6f9d39fe/1/ Brigham Young Univ- Idaho website] He attended his father's church until he was eighteen, when he then joined his mother's church, the Centennial Methodist Church. Boettner attended the Lone Cedar and Fairview elementary schools, before going to Tarkio High School. In 1917, he studied agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/boettner/index.html |title="Loraine Boettner Papers", PCA Historical Center |access-date=2009-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110054738/http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/boettner/index.html |archive-date=2018-01-10 |url-status=dead }} A year later, he transferred to Tarkio Presbyterian College, where in 1925 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree.

In the fall of 1925, Boettner entered Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1928 with a Th.B. The following year he obtained a Th.M. His master's thesis formed the basis of The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. From 1929 to 1937 Boettner taught at the Pikeville College (University of Pikeville) in eastern Kentucky, where he met his wife, also a teacher. In 1933, Professor Boettner was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Tarkio College. In 1937, the Boettners left Pikeville for Washington, D.C., where he worked for the Library of Congress. From 1942 to 1947 he was employed by the Department of Internal Revenue.

In 1948, the Boettners joined Mrs. Boettner's sisters in Los Angeles, California, as they had offered to assist with her care, due to her declining health. In 1957 Tarkio College also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Upon his wife's death, in 1958, Boettner returned to his home state, settling in Rock Port, Missouri, where he remained the rest of his life.

He was a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

While his daily vocation was not theology or Biblical studies, he continued to write and publish books until near his death, the most successful of which were The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination and Roman Catholicism,{{cite web | url=http://www.apuritansmind.com/ChristianWalk/LoraineBoettnerBio.htm | title=The Reformed Theologian, Loraine Boettner | author=C. Matthew McMahon | publisher=A Puritan's Mind | access-date=2007-02-01 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202111009/http://www.apuritansmind.com/ChristianWalk/LoraineBoettnerBio.htm | archive-date=2007-02-02 }} Boettner's critical commentary on the Roman Catholic faith. This book has been called by its critics "The Anti-Catholic Bible" because of the author's aim to antagonize the Catholic Church, which, according to Catholic scholars, "has gravely compromised his intellectual objectivity".{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-anti-catholic-bible | title=The Anti-Catholic Bible | publisher=Catholic Answers | access-date=2012-10-27}} A recent doctoral study (Catholic) claims that the research done by Boettner in Roman Catholicism "is simply flimsy" and makes use of old and refuted anti-Catholic clichés.{{cite book |title=The Origin, Proliferation, and Institutionalization of Anti-Catholicism in America, and its Impact on Modern Christian Apologetics |first=Robert |last=Fazzio |publisher=GRIN Verlag |year=2011 |isbn=9783656019664 |page=134 }}

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination and Immortality was translated into Chinese by Charles H. Chao (1952, 1962), into German by Ivo Carobbio, and into Japanese.[http://opac.ndl.go.jp/recordid/000000973879/jpn 『不死:死後の問題の解明』]

• The Christian Attitude Towards War (1st ed. 1940, 3rd ed. 1985) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-118-3}}
• The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination (1932) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-112-1}}
• Harmony of the Gospels (1933) (1976) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-132-9}}
• A Summary of the Gospels (1934)
• The Inspiration of the Scriptures (1940)
• The Atonement (1941)
• The Person of Christ (1943)
• Studies in Theology (1947) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-115-2}}
• A history of the Boettner family (1954)
• Immortality (1956) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-146-6}}
• The Millennium (1957) revised ed. (1984) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-128-2}}
• Divorce (1960) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-126-8}}
• Roman Catholicism (1962) revised ed. (1966) {{ISBN|978-0-85151-082-8}}
• The Mass (1966)
• The Reformed Faith (1983) {{ISBN|978-0-87552-122-0}}

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• [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/boettner/predest.html The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] at Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180110054738/http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/boettner/index.html Loraine Boettner Papers] manuscripts held at the PCA Historical Center
• [http://www.tracts.ukgo.com/loraine_boettner.htm Writings by Boettner]
• [https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-anti-catholic-bible The Anti-Catholic Bible] Criticism of Boettner's writings about the Catholic Church

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