Phineas Bresee

Carl Bangs was a professor emeritus of historical theology at Saint Paul School of Theology where he taught for 28 years after teaching 8 years at Olivet Nazarene College. He served as president of the American Theological Society (Midwest Division) and the American Society of Church history. His work, Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation, is a seminal contribution to Dutch church history and Wesleyan-Arminian studies. He has written for scholarly journals and The Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Westminister Dictionary of Church History, Encyclopedia of Religion, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Bangs is a graduate of Pasadena College and Nazarene Theological Seminary and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago.