Tozer, Aiden Wilson (1897–1963). Christian and Missionary Alliance minister and popular evangelical author and mystic. Tozer’s conversion in 1915 was marked, as he wrote, by “an old-fashioned Biblical invasion of my nature by the Holy Spirit.” Active in witnessing thereafter, he was ordained in 1920. Self-educated, Tozer read widely, with a special love for poetry, the Church Fathers and the mystics of the church. Tozer pastored churches in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and, for more than thirty years (1928–1959), the Southside Alliance Church of Chicago, before becoming preaching minister of the Avenue Road Alliance Church of Toronto, Canada (1959–1963). Elected vice president of the Alliance in 1946 andre-elected in 1949, he resigned that position in 1950, the year he became editor of the Alliance Weekly (later Alliance Witness and currently Alliance Life). A prolific writer, Tozer wrote approximately thirty books. His first published volume, Wingspread (1943), was a biography of A. B. Simpson, founder of the Alliance. Other volumes included The Pursuit of God (1948), The Root of the Righteous (1955), The Knowledge of the Holy (1961) and The Christian Book of Mystical Verse (1963). As editor, author and speaker, Tozer ministered to the evangelical community in North America and abroad, making him one of the most influential American evangelicals of the mid-twentieth century.
Bibliography. D. J. Fant, A. W. Tozer; A Twentieth-Century Prophet (1964).
N. A. Magnuson
Daniel G. Reid, Robert Dean Linder, et al., Dictionary of Christianity in America (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990).
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