Charles Woodbridge

Charles Jahleel Woodbridge (1902 - 1995) was an American Presbyterian missionary, minister, seminary professor, founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals, and author of The New Evangelicalism.

Family and education Woodbridge was born in Chinkiang, China on January 24, 1902, to Presbyterian missionaries Samuel Isett and Jeanie Wilson (Woodrow) Woodbridge, Sr. His father traced his ancestors to John Woodbridge, a Lollard preacher in 15th century England; his mother was a first cousin to US President Woodrow Wilson. He earned degrees at Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Duke University, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1927. He was married on March 4, 1930 to Ruth Eyman Dunning,

Career Woodbridge served as pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Flushing, New York for several years before following the call to become a missionary to French Cameroons in 1932. Just a few years later, he was appointed by one of his seminary mentors, John Gresham Machen, to serve as secretary general for the newly formed Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Both he and Machen were later censured by the Presbyterian Church because of their defense of orthodoxy against liberal and modernist theology. During the summers, he also served as a Bible teacher for Word of Life Fellowship in Schroon Lake. and Campus Crusade's Four Spiritual Laws.

Death Woodbridge died on July 16, 1995. He had been living in Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington.

Publications Standing on the Promises: Rich Truths from the Book of Acts (1947) A Handbook of Christian Truth, co-authored with Harold Lindsell (1953) Romans: The Epistle of Grace (1953) Bible Prophecy (1962) The New Evangelicalism (1969)