Harold Lindsell (December 22, 1913 – January 15, 1998) was an

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Christian author and scholar who was one of the founding members of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is best known for his 1976 book ''The Battle for the Bible''. Lindsell was born in

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and obtained degrees at

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and

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. He taught at Columbia Bible College ( Columbia International University),

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, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Wheaton College before becoming editor of ''

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''. He served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1971.'' JETS''
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Lindsell is credited with boosting the efforts of conservatives to wrest the

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away from moderates over the issue of biblical inerrancy.

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credited him with "being used by God to save her doubting faith" while she was a student at Wheaton. Lindsell's contributions to the exegesis of Scripture included preparing and editing the introductions, annotations, topical headings, marginal references, and index to the Harper Study Bible, published by Zondervan Bible Publishers. Lindsell was diagnosed with

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in 1991 and died of flu complications in 1998.

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