R. Hollis Gause obit

Passing of Dr. R. Hollis Gause

 

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Passing of Dr. R. Hollis Gause Professor of New Testament & Theology

DATE: September 6, 2015

Communications has just learned that Dr. R. Hollis Gause, Pentecostal Theological Seminary Professor of New Testament and Theology and noted Church Theologian and Parliamentarian, passed away earlier today. Dr. Gause taught New Testament and Theology for more than 60 years.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time. We will share details of the visitation and funeral service as soon as they are available.

Please keep the Gause family in your thoughts and prayers.

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.

He graduated from high school in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended junior college at Emmanuel College in Georgia and finished his undergraduate studies at Presbyterian College back in Clinton. He then studied at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1949 (which was upgraded to an M.Div. in 1971). He would eventually receive a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University in 1975 with a dissertation titled, The Lukan Transfiguration Account directed by William A. Beardslee.

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

Gause joined the lay ministry of the Church of God in 1943 and was promoted to the church's ordained ministry in 1954.

Gause became the first dean and director of the Church of God Graduate School of Christian Ministries (now Pentecostal Theological Seminary) in 1975. Gause served as president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies from 1971 to 1972. He also pastored the Warren Church of God in Warren, Michigan (now known as the Maranatha Church of God) from 1982 to 1984.