A. C. Dixon

Amzi Clarence Dixon (July 6, 1854 – June 14, 1925) was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and evangelist, popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With R.A. Torrey he edited an influential series of essays, published as the The Fundamentals (1910–15), which gave fundamentalist Christianity its name.

Biography

Early life

Amzi Clarence Dixon was born on a farm near Shelby, North Carolina, on July 6, 1854. His father, Thomas Jeremiah Frederick Dixon, was a Baptist preacher; his mother was Amanda Elvira McAfee. His brother, Thomas Dixon, Jr., became a prominent novelist. While still young, Dixon believed he was called to preach the gospel. In 1875, he graduated from Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Career

He was ordained in 1876 and immediately began serving as pastor of two country churches. He also pastored in Chapel Hill and Asheville before attending The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (then in Greenville, South Carolina), where he was a student of John A. Broadus.