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R. C. Sproul

1939 - 2017

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Robert Charles Sproul ( SPROHL; February 13, 1939 – December 14, 2017) was an American Reformed theologian, Christian apologist, and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and could be heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally. Under Sproul's direction, Ligonier Ministries produced the Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which would eventually grow into the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. C. Sproul has received more than 1,570,367 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). R. C. Sproul is the 1,202nd most popular philosopher (down from 1,120th in 2019), the 8,751st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,402nd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Philosopher.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, R. C. Sproul ranks 1,202 out of 1,267. Before him are James Burnham, Ernest Belfort Bax, Alexander Berzin, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Nick Bostrom, and Susan Haack. After him are Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Alexander Tarasov, Patricia Hill Collins, Dugald Stewart, Walter Kaufmann, and Simon Blackburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, R. C. Sproul ranks 479. Before him are Ernie Davis, Boris Tishchenko, Jan Mrvík, Ted Kaufman, Erik Hansen, and Gerry Goffin. After him are Al Unser, Jan-Just Bos, Alan Ayckbourn, Chris Craft, Elizabeth Ashley, and Jalal Dabagh. Among people deceased in 2017, R. C. Sproul ranks 446. Before him are Laurynas Stankevičius, Yuriy Poyarkov, Peter Hall, Nikos Koundouros, Alain Jessua, and Ferry Graf. After him are Graham Taylor, Lee Yuan-tsu, Kito Lorenc, Tommy Gemmell, Paavo Lonkila, and Ivan Koloff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, R. C. Sproul ranks 8,751 out of 20,380. Before him are John Romero (1967), Craig Bierko (1964), Mike Dunleavy (1961), Earl Young (1941), David Frankel (1959), and Lucille La Verne (1872). After him are Harvey Korman (1927), Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Toni Basil (1943), Jerry Jones (1942), Richard Garfield (1963), and Michelle Forbes (1965).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, R. C. Sproul ranks 73. Before him are William Chittick (1943), Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929), Robert Brandom (1950), William Alston (1921), James Burnham (1905), and Alexander Berzin (1944). After him are Patricia Hill Collins (1948), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787), David Ray Griffin (1939), Ralph Barton Perry (1876), Charles Hartshorne (1897), and Roderick Chisholm (1916).

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