Peter Derek Vaughan Prince (1915-2003) was an internationally recognised Bible teacher whose daily radio programme Today with Derek Prince (also called Keys to Successful Living) broadcasts to half the population of the world in various languages. These languages include English, Arabic, Spanish, Croatian, Russian, Malagasy, Tongan, Samoan and four dialects of Chinese. He was probably most noted for his teachings about demons and Christian Zionism. He was best known in Pentecostal circles although his teaching is distinctly non-denominational, a fact that has long been emphasised by his worldwide ministry. Derek Prince Ministries famously operates under the slogan, Reaching the unreached and teaching the untaught. The Gutenberg Bible owned by the United States Library of Congress The Bible (Hebrew: תנ״ך tanakh, Greek: η Βίβλος hē biblos) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Work of God, The Word, The Good Book or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the name used by Jews and Christians for their... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Countries where Arabic is spoken. ... The demon Satan In folklore, mythology, and religion, a demon is a supernatural being that is generally described as an evil spirit, but is also depicted to be good in some instances. ... Christian Zionism is the belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy, and is a necessary prerequisite for the return of Jesus to reign on Earth. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ...

Early Life and Conversion

Derek Prince was born in India of British parents and was educated at Eton College and Kings College, Cambridge. He was a scholar of Greek and Latin, although at Cambridge he took Philosophy, specialising in logic and studying under Ludwig Wittgenstein. During this time he had an affair with a married woman in Ireland, resulting in the birth of a son. His MA dissertation was titled The Evolution of Plato's Method of Definition, and won him a fellowship at the age of just 24. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a prestigious and internationally known independent school for boys, which is often described as the most famous school in the world. ... Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas Motto Veritas et utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College New College Provost Dame Judith Mayhew-Jonas Location Kings Parade Undergraduates 397 Graduates 239 Homepage Boatclub Kings College, Cambridge... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Philosopher in Meditation (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. ... Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy among philosophers. ... Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (IPA: ) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. ...

Under the influence of vice-chancellor Charles Raven, Prince refused to bear arms in World War Two, and instead joined an ambulance unit. While posted to Scarborough for training, Prince attended a Pentecostal Church and had a religious experience which converted him to Pentecostalism. After this he was posted to North Africa, where he served in Egypt, the Sudan, and Palestine. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... This article is on the English seaside resort. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ... Palestine (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל Eretz Israel, Arabic: فلسطين Filastīn or Falastīn, see also Land of Israel) is one of many historical names for the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east and south. ...

Marriage and the Growth of his Ministry

While serving in Palestine, Prince met Lydia Christensen, a Danish woman who ran an orphanage in Ramallah and who had adopted eight girls (seven of whom were Jewish). Despite Lydia being 25 years Prince’s senior, they married. Prince strongly supported the establishment of the State of Israel, which he saw as the fulfilling of Biblical prophecy, but he left for the UK with the last British convoy out of Jerusalem. Ramallah (Arabic: (help· info) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank of approximately 57,000 residents. ... Jerusalem (; Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds; Greek Ιεροσόλυμα) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ...

In the UK, Prince used Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London, to encourage people to join a Pentecostal church he was leading at his home in Notting Hill. In 1957 he and Lydia moved to Kisumu in Kenya, where he became a school principal and adopted a Kenyan baby. He claimed to have been responsible for raising two people from the dead during this time. Hyde Park is the name of: Hyde Park, a Royal Park in London (the original location) Hyde Park in Sydney - a park some places in the United States of America: Hyde Park, Massachusetts Hyde Park, New York - a town in Dutchess County, New York Hyde Park, Vermont - a town Hyde... } London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya, with a population of 322,724 (1999 census). ...

In 1962, the Princes moved to Canada, and from there to a pastorate at Peoples Church in Minneapolis, becoming US citizens. From here they moved to Broadway Tabernacle in Seattle. During this time Prince was becoming widely known through his cassette-tape Bible lectures, and he became involved with the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International. This led to a move to Faith Tabernacle in Chicago, and then to Ft. Lauderdale in Florida. His son-in-law David Selby attended to the administration of his ministry. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Fort Lauderdale, known as the Venice of America, is a city located in Broward County, Florida. ... David Selby (born February 5, 1941 in Morgantown, West Virginia) is an American character actor, perhaps best known for playing Quentin Collins from 1968-1971 on the ABC-TV cult serial Dark Shadows, and Richard Channing on the long-running night-time CBS soap opera Falcon Crest. ...

Teachings

Demons and Deliverance

As a Pentecostal, Prince believed in the reality of spiritual forces operating the world, and of the power of demons to cause illness and psychological problems. While in Seattle he was asked to perform an exorcism on a woman, and he came to believe that demons could attack Christians. This was at odds with the more usual Pentecostal view that demons could only affect non-Christians. Prince believed that his deliverance ministry used the power of God to defeat demons. Saint Francis exorcised demons in Arezzo, fresco of Giotto Exorcism is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities which are supposed to have possessed (taken control of) a person or object. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

Christian Zionism

Prince also believed that the State of Israel was the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy, and that the collapse of the British Empire had been caused by Britain’s failure to support Israel in 1948. He saw Islam as demonically inspired, and shortly before his death stated that the thought the UK might become a Muslim country. The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Islam (Arabic: ; ) is a monotheistic religion based on the Quran. ...

The Shepherding Controversy

In 1968 Prince joined the Holy Spirit Teaching Mission, which linked him to three other Charismatic Christian pastors living in Ft. Lauderdale: Don Basham, Bob Mumford, and Charles Simpson. The HSTM had been founded by businessman Eldon Purvis, but after the discovery of Purvis’s homosexuality Prince and the others formed Christan Growth Ministries. In 1974 CGM sought to counter what were seen as excesses within the Charismatic movement by emphasising the authority of a few shepherds over their “sheep”. The group was joined by Ern Baxter, and the five men became known as the Fort Lauderdale Five. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...

CGM’s strong emphasis on submission was controversial. Lydia Prince herself disapproved, and as stories of abuses came out the movement was condemned by Pat Robertson, Kathryn Kuhlman, and the FGBMFI. Lydia died in 1975, and when Prince later wanted to marry Ruth Baker, his fellow shepherds forbade him. However, they later gave permission, and Prince was re-married in 1978. He disassociated himself with the movement in 1983, and claimed that he had never been fully connected with what had been going on, due to his busy travelling schedule and his grief following Lydia’s death. American religious broadcaster Pat Robertson Marion Gordon Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is an influential televangelist from the United States. ... Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) was a 20th Century American evangelist and alleged faith healer. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Last Years

Derek met the future Ruth Prince in Jerusalem, and based himself there for six months every year. Together they set up a Global Outreach program, which made materials from his ministry freely available for pastors around the world. A missionary named Ross Paterson arranged for his teachings to be broadcast by radio into China, where Prince is known as “Ye Guang-Ming” (“Clear Light”).

Ruth died in 1998, and Derek followed in September 2003. He spent his last days in Jerusalem in the home of his friend Eliyahu Ben Haim. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Publications

Derek Prince published dozens of books and recorded over 400 audio teaching sermons. Books which he published include, The Grace of Yielding, The Foundations Series, The Destiny of Israel and the Church, The Last Word on the Middle East and Faith to Live By.

Bibliography

Stephen Mansfield, Derek Prince: A Biography (Lake Mary, Charisma House, 2005)

External links

• Derek Prince Ministries, International
• Derek Prince Ministries, USA
• Derek Prince Ministries, UK
• Derek Prince Ministries, Spain