GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Televangelist Robert H. Schuller, who attempted to integrate the teachings of John Calvin with the positive thinking of Norman Vincent Peale and who lost his famed Crystal Cathedral to bankruptcy, died April 2 at age 88.
Schuller was best-known for his four decades of televised Sunday services, “Hour of Power,” broadcast from Crystal Cathedral.
In 1950, after receiving his bachelor of arts degree from Hope College and a master of divinity from Western Theological Seminary he was ordained by the Reformed Church in America.
He soon entered the pastorate at one of the denomination’s churches in Chicago which grew from 38 members to 400 in Schuller’s five years there. In 1955 he was sent to Orange County, Calif., to establish Garden Grove Commuity Church.
Schuller is survived by five children and more than a dozen grandchildren. His wife, Arvella, died in 2014.
(RNS)
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