Loraine Boettner was an American theologian

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 and author.

Biography

Boettner was born in Linden, Missouri

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. He received a Th.B. (1928) and Th.M. (1929) from Princeton Theological Seminary

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, and he received the honorary degree

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s of Doctor of Divinity

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 (1933) and Doctor of Letters

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 (1957). He was a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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. For eight years he taught Bible at Pikeville College

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 in Kentucky

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, and in 1937 he began working at the Library of Congress

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 and the Bureau of Internal Revenue

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.

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, Boettner's critical commentary on the Roman Catholic faith.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination and Immortality was translated into Chinese by Charles H. Chao (1952, 1962), into German by Ivo Carobbio (2008, download at http://www.ccel.org) and Japanese.

Works

• 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 Person of Christ (1943)
• Studies in Theology (1947) ISBN 978-0-87552-115-2
• Immortality (1956) ISBN 978-0-87552-146-6
• The Millennium (1957) revised ed. (1984) ISBN 978-0-87552-128-2
• Roman Catholicism (1962) revised ed. (1966) ISBN 978-0-85151-082-8
• The Mass (1966)
• Divorce (1972) ISBN 978-0-87552-126-8
• The Reformed Faith (1983) ISBN 978-0-87552-122-0
• The Atonement
• The Christian Attitude Towards War (1985) ISBN 978-0-87552-118-3

External links

• The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination at Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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• Loraine Boettner Papers manuscripts held at the PCA
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  Historical Center
• Writings by Boettner
• The Anti-Catholic Bible Criticism of Boettner's writings about the Catholic Church