Roy Arthur Cheville
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1897 – 1986
Who was Roy Arthur Cheville?
Roy A. Cheville was a religious leader, theologian and educator in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or Community of Christ, as it is known today. Cheville graduated from Graceland University in 1921 with an Associate of Arts degree in liberal arts and religious education. In 1926, he authored Graceland's Alma Mater Hymn while on the faculty. He obtained his Ph. B. in 1922, an A.M in Divinity in 1923, a D.B. in Practical Theology in 1925, and later a Ph. D. in Religion in 1942, all from the University of Chicago. He was the first member of his denomination to complete a doctoral level religious education.
Cheville was regarded as an influential professor of Religion at Graceland from 1923 to 1960 and also served as the campus pastor. Cheville taught many introductory religion courses from his own text, “Growing Up In Religion” stressing that a view of God restricted to scriptural and doctrinal traditions was too small and confining.
Cheville was called to the office of Presiding Patriarch in the RLDS Church in 1958 by W. Wallace Smith and was the first person to serve in that office who was not a direct descendant of Joseph Smith, Jr.
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- Born
- Oct 2, 1897
Maxwell - Also known as
- Roy Cheville
- Religion
- Mormonism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Died
- Apr 6, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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