Training Disciplined Soldiers for Christ: The Influence of American Fundamentalism On Prairie Bible Institute (1922-1980)

The comparative scarcity of academic attention given Prairie Bible Institute located at Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, serves as the primary motivation behind this book. This work should therefore be regarded as an attempt to contribute to and refine the very small amount of research available regarding how Prairie Bible Institute's first half-century should be understood and interpreted by students of North American church history. Drawing on an insider's perspective of PBI, former PBI "staff kid" Tim W. Callaway challenges the adequacy and accuracy of Canadian scholar Dr. John G. Stackhouse, Jr's inference that the kind of "sectish evangelicalism" that typified PBI in the twentieth century was substantially different from the characteristics that define the traditional understanding of American fundamentalism. The undertaking contained in these pages advances the perspective that Prairie Bible Institute during the L.E. Maxwell era did in fact reflect the influence and attributes of American fundamentalism to a far greater extent than what Stackhouse allowed for in his research.

Timothy Wray Callaway (b. 1956) was raised as a "staff kid" from 1960-1977 at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada. In addition to completing each of the four levels of education that existed at PBI during that era (kindergarten, elementary, high school, and Bible college), he has studied at the University of Calgary and is a graduate of Providence University College (B Rel Ed) in Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada; the University of Waterloo (BA) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv and ThM) in Deerfield, Illinois, and the University of South Africa (ThD) in Pretoria, South Africa. He and his wife, Joyce, are parents to three adult children and reside in Calgary, Alberta, where Tim is active as a pastor, college professor, writer, and social justice advocate.