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Anthony Flood’s Christian Individualism follows the life of Otis Q. Sellers, an Ohio-born Bible teacher whose ministry moved from Baptist Fundamentalism into Christianity outside denominations. After receiving Christ in 1919, Sellers entered Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, a path that leads to the pastorate at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Newport, Kentucky. His departure from that pastorate in 1932 places him outside the church system that trained him, yet his ministry continues through Bible conferences until the Word of Truth Ministry gives his independent work a home in 1936. Flood follows Sellers from Grand Rapids to Los Angeles as printed studies extend his teaching beyond local meetings. Using correspondence from Sellers’s family to illuminate the record left by his publications, Christian Individualism presents the life of a theologian whose conclusions placed him beyond the traditions surrounding Christianity.
Anthony Flood’s Christian Individualism is a part biography, part theological portrait of Otis Q. Sellers’s life and lifelong study of Scripture. Flood’s writing is exceptional, and there's a unique intimacy within it that pushes through as he presents the habits that shaped how Sellers approached biblical study. I love when he writes about Sellers reading Galatians one hundred times, and I saw Flood’s understanding of his subject shine brightest when he explains how familiarity with Paul’s words became the foundation for Sellers’s method. At the same time, when Flood discusses the 1974 French “Jesus Trial” it is fascinating, but in a testament to his research, he connects Jacques Isorni’s one-franc libel award directly to Sellers’s discussion of responsibility for the Crucifixion. Well written and insightful, readers who enjoy Christian biographies will adore this.
