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Richard Owen Roberts -
Biography
Richard Owen Roberts is the
President and a founding Director of International
Awakening Ministries. A native of Schenectady, New
York, Mr. Roberts prepared for the ministry at
Gordon College, Whitworth College and Fuller
Theological Seminary. He has been the pastor of
churches in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
California. During the years he served the
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference as
Minister-at-Large, he was instrumental in the
formation of two churches in the Albany capitol
district: the Bethlehem Community Church of Delmar,
New York, and the Clifton Park Community Church in
Clifton Park, New York.
Since 1975, Mr. Roberts and his family have lived in
the Wheaton, Illinois, area. He worked with the
Billy Graham Association and Wheaton College in the
formation of the Billy Graham Center Library. His
own private collection of some 9,000 volumes
relating to movements of religious revival provides
the nucleus of the Graham Center Library.
From his youth, Mr. Roberts has been a student of
spiritual awakenings. He has authored, edited and/or
published numerous volumes relating to revival and
revivalism. These include:
| Revival -
summarizes Mr. Roberts convictions and
concerns about this urgent theme |
Revival Literature: An Annotated
Bibliography with Biographical and
Historical Notices - details over 5,000
titles on revival |
Whitefield in Print: A Bibliographic Record
of Works By, For and Against George
Whitefield; with Annotations, Biographical
and Historical Notices, and Bibliographies
of Associates and Contemporaries - forms
a literary history of the Great Eighteenth
Century Revival. |
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