Walter Ralston Martin

Writer, Author

1928 – 1989

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Who was Walter Ralston Martin?

Walter Ralston Martin, was an American Evangelical minister, author, and Christian apologist who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a para-church ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics. As the author of the influential The Kingdom of the Cults, he has been dubbed the "godfather of the anti-cult movement".

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Born
Sep 10, 1928
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Walter Martin
Parents
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • California Coast University
  • New York University
  • The Stony Brook School
Lived in
  • Brooklyn
Died
Jun 26, 1989

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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