Biografia Josh Mcdowell (Ingles)

Biography
[edit]Family and education
McDowell was born in Union City, Michigan in 1939 with the given name Joslin.[3] He was one of five children born to Wilmot McDowell, Sr. Biographer Joe Musserindicates that McDowell struggled with low self-esteem in his youth, as his father was an alcoholic and abusive.[4] He enlisted in the Air National Guard, received basic training and assumed duties inmechanical maintenance of aircraft. After sustaining a head injury he was discharged from the service.
He initially intended to pursue legal studies culminating in a political career, and beganpreparatory studies at Kellogg Community College, a two-year junior college in Battle Creek, Michigan. According to McDowell, he was as an agnostic at college when he decided to prepare a paper that wouldexamine the historical evidence of the Christian faith in order to disprove it. However, he converted to Christianity, after, as he says, he found evidence for it, not against it. He subsequentlyenrolled at Wheaton College, Illinois, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then studied at Talbot Theological Seminary of Biola University, La Mirada, California. He completed an exitpaper examining the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses, and was awarded the Master of Divinity degree graduating Magna Cum Laude.
Although he has not performed the necessary academic requirements to earn adoctorate (which include 2 years of academic study and dissertation), he uses the honorific "Dr." in association with his professional life. In 1982 McDowell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Lawsdegree by Simon Greenleaf School of Law, now Trinity Law School, in recognition of his ministry and writings. McDowell was also a visiting lecturer at that school in the 1980s.
Josh McDowell marriedDottie Youd, with whom he has four children; they live in Dallas, Texas.[5]
[edit]Career and ministry
In 1964, he became a traveling representative of Campus Crusade for Christ International. Campus...