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Lyman Stewart (July 22, 1840 – September 28, 1923) was a U.S. businessman and co-founder of Union Oil Company of California. Stewart was also a significant Christian philanthropist and cofounder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now known as Biola University).
Mar 19, 2022 · One of the architects of fundamentalist Protestantism in the twentieth century was the oil oligarch Lyman Stewart (1840-1923). The head of Union Oil of California (later Unocal), Stewart was once “too well known to need an introduction,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Today, he’s not nearly as well remembered.
Sep 2, 2014 · Learn how Biola founder Lyman Stewart anonymously funded a set of essays that shaped evangelicalism in the 20th century. Discover the vision, the team and the legacy of The Fundamentals project.
Jun 27, 2024 · An analysis of Lyman Stewart, California oilman and patron of early American fundamentalism, reveals much about the mutual transformations of American religion and capitalism in the early twentieth century.
Lyman Stewart was a successful oil entrepreneur who founded and led Union Oil Company from 1894 to 1914. He invested in new wells in southern California and grew the company's capitalization from $10 million to $50 million.
Lyman Stewart and Early Fundamentalism B. M. PlETSCH An analysis of Lyman Stewart, California oilman and patron of early American fundamentalism, reveals much about the mutual transformations of American religion and capitalism in the early twentieth century. As an expositor of Victorian
Sep 16, 2021 · 1 Lyman Stewart to T.C. Horton, September 14, 1911. 2 Darren Dochuk highlights the need to examine Stewart’s fundamentalism as a product of “his attachment to the volatile, high-risk, boom-bust realities of his economic location.”
