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Walter Ralston Martin
American minister, author (1928–1989)
Walter Ralston Martin (September 10, 1928 – June 26, 1989) was an American BaptistChristian minister and author who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a parachurch ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics.[1][2] As the author of the influential The Kingdom of the Cults (1965), he has been dubbed by the conservative Christian columnist Michael J.
McManus, the "godfather of the anti-cult movement".[3]
Birth and early years
Martin was born in Brooklyn, New York to George Washington Martin II (1876–1948) and Maud Ainsworth (1892–1966).
His father was a prominent figure in the legal profession who served as an assistant District attorney, before working as a criminal trial lawyer. In 1920 George Martin became a county court judge and presided over cases involving some of the notori