IN HONOR OF...
WILLIAM ARNETT AND CHARLES CARTER

William Melvin Arnett (1915-1995)

Funeral services for Dr. Arnett were November 29, 1995, in Wilmore, Kentucky. Son of Charles Edward and Frankie Viola (Sherbert) Arnett, William Arnett was born in Clay Center, Kansas. He earned an A. B. degree from Asbury College and degrees from Asbury Theological Seminary (B. D.), Princeton Theological Seminary (Th. M.), and Drew Theological Seminary (Ph. D.). His dissertation was titled "John Wesley: Man of One Book." He married Ruth Priscilla Little in 1940 and they had four children. Ordained a Deacon in 1944 and Elder in 1952 in the Kansas West Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Arnett served student pastorates at High Bridge and Corbin, Kentucky. He was the Frank Paul Morris Professor of Christian Doctrine at Asbury Theological Seminary from 1951 to 1985, retiring in 1985. His service to the Wesleyan Theological Society included being a charter member and the Society's third president and its secretary/treasurer from 1983-1989.

Charles W. Carter (1905-1996)

Death came on October 21, 1996, to Dr. Carter, another charter member of the Wesleyan Theological Society and former Editor of its Wesleyan Theological Journal. He earned Th. B. and A. B. degrees from Marion College (Indiana Wesleyan University), M.A. degrees from Winona Lake School of Theology and Butler University, the B. D. from Asbury Theological Seminary, and an M. Th. from Christian Theological Seminary. Ordained by the North Michigan Conference of the Wesleyan Church, he was author or editor of more than 30 books, including General Editorship of the Wesleyan Bible Commentary and the two-volume Contemporary Wesleyan Theology (Zondervan, 1993). He served three terms as a Wesleyan missionary to Sierra Leone and was Chair of the Division of Religion and Philosophy at Marion College from 1946 to 1957 and at Taylor University from 1959 to 1971. He was Scholar-in-Residence at Indiana Wesleyan University from 1971 to 1990.

God is to be praised for the special gift of these two servants of our Lord. The Wesleyan Theological Society is especially in their debt. - Editor

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