{"id":12936,"date":"2017-02-28T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12936"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:50:10","slug":"idowu-professor-reverend-emmanuel-bolaji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/idowu-professor-reverend-emmanuel-bolaji\/","title":{"rendered":"IDOWU, Prof (Reverend) Emmanuel Bolaji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BD Ph.D, theologian, educationist, born September 28, 1913, Ikorodu, Lagos State; married Elizabeth Yewande, two sons, four daughters; Education: Baptist Boys&#8217; High School, Abeokuta, 1932-33, Wesley College, Ibadan, 1935-38. 1942-44, Wesley House, Cambridge. England, 1945-47, Wesley Col lege, Headingley, England, 1947-48; Minister, Otapete Methodist Church, Ilesa, 1948-49; Minister. Methodist Mission, Northern Nigeria. 1949-51; Minister, Trinity Methodist, Tinubu, 1951-57; Superintendent and Manager of Schools, Tinubu Circuit, Lagos, 1953-57; Chaplain, West-Germany, 1957-58; appointed Professor and Head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, 1963; former Patriarch, Methodist Church, Nigeria; former Chairman, Council of Theological Education in Nigeria; former President, Methodist Chur ch, Nigeria; Publications: Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief (Longman, 1962), God in Nigerian Belief (Lagos, Federal Information Service, 1963), Towards an Indigenous Church (Oxford, England, 1965), Job: A Meditation On The Problems of Suffering (Dayster Press, 1967), and numerous articles in national and international learned journals; Hobbies: photography, table tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[319,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12936","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-clergy","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}