Amzi Dixon
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| Born | July 6, 1854 Shelby, North Carolina |
| Died | June 14, 1925 |
| Education | Wake Forest College |
| Occupation | Preacher |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Jeremiah Frederick Dixon Amanda Elvira McAfee |
| Relatives | Thomas Dixon, Jr. (brother) |
Amzi Clarence Dixon (July 6, 1854 – June 14, 1925) was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and evangelist, popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With R.A. Torrey he edited an influential series of essays, published as The Fundamentals (1910–15), which gave fundamentalist Christianity its name.
Amzi Clarence Dixon was born on a farm near Shelby, North Carolina, on July 6, 1854, to Thomas Jeremiah Frederick Dixon, a Baptist preacher, and Amanda Elvira McAfee Dixon. His brother, Thomas Dixon, Jr., became a prominent novelist. While still young, Dixon believed he was called to preach the gospel; and in 1875, he graduated from Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina
Dixon was ordained in 1876 and immediately began serving as pastor of two country churches. He also pastored in Chapel Hill and Asheville before attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (then in Greenville, South Carolina), where he was a student of John A. Broadus.
Thereafter, he served at Immanuel Church, Baltimore (1883–90), Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn (1890-1900), Ruggles Street Church, Boston (1901–06), the Moody Church, Chicago (1906–11), and the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London (1911–19). While in Brooklyn he often rented the Brooklyn Opera House for Sunday afternoon evangelistic services. While in Boston, Dixon also taught at the Gordon Bible and Missionary Training School (today Gordon College, and published Old and New, an attack on the Social Gospel movement.
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