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Hobart Freeman (October 17, 1920 – December 8, 1984) was a charismatic preacher and author, who ministered in northern Indiana and actively promoted faith healing. ==Early life== Hobart Edward Freeman was born in Ewing, Kentucky, and grew up at St. Petersburg, Florida, where he became a successful businessman after studying at Bryant and Stratton Business Institute, despite being a high school dropout.〔"Biblical Thinking and Confession: The Key to Victorious Living 365 Days a Year" By Hobart E. Freeman, Faith Publications, Warsaw IN 197?, back cover.〕 He also contracted polio,〔John F. MacArthur in ''Charismatic Chaos'' says that (p237) "Hobart Freeman's theology did not let him acknowledge that polio had left one of his legs disfigured and lame. 'I have my healing' is all he would say when anyone pointed out the rather conspicuous inconsistency between his own physical disabilities and his teaching."〕 and in later years "... walked stiffly ... with an obvious limp." 〔"Never Far From Home" by Cindy Barnett, Selah Publishing Group, Surprise, Arizona, page 72〕 Freeman was converted to Christ in 1952 at the age of 31, and baptized into a congregation within the Southern Baptist Convention. Shortly before Freeman received "the baptism in the Holy Spirit", he survived a heart attack. He "claimed" his healing, disposed of his medications, and almost immediately suffered a series of angina attacks, which eventually subsided.〔"Biblical Thinking and Confession: The Key to Victorious Living 365 Days a Year" By Hobart E. Freeman, Faith Publications, Warsaw IN nd, pages 49 & 50. Note: The word "claimed" in this context does NOT mean he claimed that he was healed, but rather that he claimed the promise of healing that he believed was in the atonement. As such, the word is used in a theological sense rather than in an everyday sense.〕 Freeman was called to the ministry, and educated at the Georgetown College with a Bible and History major, and then at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (A.B., Th.M.) with an Old Testament major. In 1961, he earned a Doctorate of Theology from Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana with a thesis entitled "The Doctrine of Substitution in the Old Testament",〔Co-authors of this thesis included Richard Michalak, Charles Ware, George Brost, George A Brost and Kevin Magde.〕 and was appointed a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies, and Philosophy and Ethics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hobart Freeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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