Arthur Edward Steele (June 17, 1920 – March 2, 2011) was an

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minister of the Bible Presbyterian Church and a Christian educator who served as president of

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and then founded

Clearwater Christian College Clearwater Christian College (CCC) was a non-denominational Christian college in Clearwater, Florida on Tampa Bay from 1966 until 2015. Student life Clearwater Christian College students were composed of roughly 80% residence hall students an ...

Personal life

Arthur Steele was born in

McKeesport, Pennsylvania McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census. It ...

and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Tech (now

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) in 1942. Having been a member of the

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, he was commissioned as an officer upon graduation and served during World War II in the Corps of Engineers Research and Development Board as the Supervisor of the Gas Generating School at

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. In 1956, Steele entered

Faith Theological Seminary Faith Theological Seminary is an unaccredited evangelical Christian seminary in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 in Wilmington, Delaware, moved to Philadelphia in 1952, and then moved to Maryland in 2004. History In response to the Pr ...

while working part-time employment at Air Products. Upon receiving his Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree in 1959, he was asked to serve as the vice president and treasurer of the seminary. In 1962, he was appointed president of

, Ringwood, New Jersey, where he served until 1965. In 1966, he founded

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