Rufus Hollis Gause

Rufus Hollis Gause, Jr. (July 1, 1925 – September 6, 2015), known as R. Hollis Gause, was an American Pentecostal theologian and pastor. He was affiliated with the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). Gause was the first dean of the Pentecostal Theological Seminary.

Early life and education

Gause was born July 1, 1925. His father was a Pentecostal Holiness Church minister and the family moved to the Church of God (Cleveland) when Gause was a teenager. Gause married Beulah Hunt in 1948 and they had a son, Valdane.

Career

Gause began his teaching career in 1947 at Lee College in Cleveland, Tennessee. He taught there from 1947 to 1975 and 1982-1984.

Gause has authored books of both a popular and scholarly nature. In 2006 he co-authored a book with Kimberly Ervin Alexander entitled Women in Leadership: A Pentecostal Perspective published by the Church of God Theological Seminary's Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care.

A festschrift in honor of Gause titled Passover, Pentecost and Parousia and edited by Steven J. Land, Rickie D. Moore, and John Christopher Thomas was published in 2010.

Gause died in 2015 at the age of 90.

Selected works Church of God Polity (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 1973). Living in the Spirit: The Way of Salvation (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press,1980). Revelation: God's Stamp of Sovereignty on History (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 1983). R. Hollis & Beulah Gause, Women in the Body of Christ (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 1984). The Preaching of Paul: A Study of Romans (Cleveland, TN: Pathway Press, 1986). Kimberly Ervin Alexander and R. Hollis Gause, Women in Leadership: A Pentecostal Perspective (Cleveland, TN: Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care, 2006). Living in the Spirit: The Way of Salvation, Revised and Expanded edition (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2010). The Lukan Transfiguration Account: The Exalted Lord in the Glory of the Kingdom of God (Centre for Pentecostal Theology Classics Series; Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2020, published posthumously). Hebrews (Brill, 2022)