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Timothy Lin () (18 January 1911–11 October 2009) was a China-born pastor and Old Testament scholar. He served as senior pastor of the First Chinese Baptist Church of Los Angeles (1962–1980) and as the president of
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in
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(1980–1990).


Biography

Born in
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on 18 January 1911, Lin was the eldest of nine children of a minister. Though he grew up in a Christian home, he is said to have been
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at the age of 19. He attended Central Theological Seminary of Nanjing, but left in 1934 due to the modernist theology of the time. He then pastored Jubilee Church in Shanghai until 1937, followed by serving as principal of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Bible Institute of
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from 1937 to 1938. During the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), Lin managed Bethel Orphanage and was the principal of Bethel High School, then served as dean of Shanghai Bible College. In 1940, he went to Concordia Theological Seminary and
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for further studies in Greek and Hebrew. He subsequently served as president of the CIM-affiliated
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. In 1948, he returned to the United States for further study, receiving a BD and a STM from
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and a
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in Hebrew and Cognate Language from Dropsie University in 1954. Lin was taught
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and
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at the graduate school of Bob Jones University and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In 1961, he taught as interim pastor of First Chinese Baptist Church of Los Angeles, becoming its permanent pastor from 1962 until 1994, while also teaching at Talbot School of Theology. He was one of the translators of the Old Testament of the New American Standard Bible. In 1980 Lin succeeded
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as the president of China Evangelical Seminary in Taiwan. He became the seminary's president and professor of Old Testament and Pastoral Ministry, until his retirement in 1990. Upon his retirement, the Timothy Lin Chair of Biblical Interpretation and Church Growth was created at China Evangelical Seminary. He died in Monterey Park, California, on 11 October 2009.


Works

* Selected online articles can be found at:
Biblical Studies Ministries International



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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Timothy 1911 births 2009 deaths Chinese biblical scholars Washington University in St. Louis alumni Dropsie College alumni Bob Jones University alumni Educators from Taizhou, Zhejiang Chinese Protestant ministers and clergy Presidents of universities and colleges in China Concordia Theological Seminary alumni Trinity Evangelical Divinity School alumni Faith Theological Seminary alumni