L. Harold DeWolf

Lotan Harold DeWolf (31 January 1905 – 24 March 1986), usually cited as L. Harold Dewolf, was an American Methodist minister and professor of systematic theology at Boston University where he was Martin Luther King Jr.'s "primary teacher and mentor".

The Reverend

L. Harold DeWolf
Born
Lotan Harold DeWolf

(1905-01-31)31 January 1905
Columbus, Nebraska, US
Died24 March 1986(1986-03-24) (aged 81)
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Methodist)
ChurchMethodist Episcopal Church
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisPremises of the Arguments Concerning Immortality in Thirty Ingersoll Lectures (1896–1934) (1935)
Doctoral advisorEdgar S. Brightman
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
  • Theology
  • philosophy
Sub-disciplineSystematic theology
School or tradition
  • Boston personalism
  • theological liberalism
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMartin Luther King Jr.
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