J. Kenneth Grider is a Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene

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 Christian

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 theologian and former seminary professor primarily associated with the followers of John Wesley

John Wesley

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 who are part of the Holiness movement

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. A member of the Church of the Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th century Holiness movement in North America with its members colloquially referred to as Nazarenes. It is the largest Wesleyan-holiness denomination in the world. At the end of 2010, the Church of the...

, he graduated from the Nazarene Theological Seminary

Nazarene Theological Seminary

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 in 1947 and received his PhD

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 from the University of Glasgow

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 in 1952. His "magnum opus" is the 1994 book A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology (ISBN 0-8341-1512-3). Long active in Wesleyan

Methodism

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 circles, he taught at the Nazarene Theological Seminary for 38 years and was also one of the translators of the New International Version

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of the Bible.

In 1999 Grider received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Wesleyan Theological Society.