Wilbur Moorehead Smith (1894–1976) was an American theologian and one of the founding members of Fuller Theological Seminary.
His mother, Sadie Sanborn Smith, read a lot and had a large library: her father was a follower of the evangelist R. A. Torrey.
[2] From 1914 to 1917, Wilbur studied at the College of Wooster, a liberal arts school then affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
At the end of his first year at Wooster College, Smith married Mary Irene Ostrowsky, a student at the Moody Bible Institute.
In June 1963, Smith, an avowed fundamentalist, resigned his position at Fuller Seminary as a result of a dispute over the doctrine of the inerrancy of the Bible.
[9] Smith wrote regular articles in the Bibliotheca Sacra, Moody Monthly and Sunday School Times.
In that volume Smith recounts his 1957 query of five hundred forty-four scientists listed in Who's Who in America regarding their attitude toward the resurrection of Jesus (pp.