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“He had read thousands of books including Greek philosophy and French infidelity. With a
photographic mind, he could read a page while I was turning to it. He had a tremendous radio
voice, could sing, and was a most amazing artist…Peter Ruckman already had a degree from the
University of Alabama but he went on to Bob Jones the next Fall to get his Master’s and his
Ph.D…When he preached for us in my pastorates he always inspired our people to love God and
to hunger to know more of the Bible…He is a genius in many respects. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., said
that Ruckman was the most brilliant man ever to set foot on the campus.”
Dr. Hugh Pyle, Pyle, Hugh F. The Time of My Life! Fort Pierce, Florida: Faith Baptist Church Publications, 1997, pp. 200-202.
Dr. Peter S. Ruckman’s father is Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman (1888–1966) who was a graduate of M.I.T. and the University of California, a veteran of World Wars I and II, editor of Technology’s War Record, and a chief engineer on the Manhattan Project. The personal diaries of Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman covering the period Ruckman served as chief engineer for the Fercleve Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN (the Manhattan Project).
“What, then, is the point of wasting a few hundred pages to give you the ‘life history’ of such an insignificant character? Simple: mankind can always use a chronicle of the grace of God, and if you ever saw GRACE – absolute and total unmerited FAVOR – lavished on one sinner on this earth, you will see it in the life of Peter Sturges Ruckman – God’s joke on Christian scholarship. He lived twenty-seven years ‘alone in the world… without hope and without God’ (Eph.2:12). Then, after being ‘accepted in the beloved’ (Eph.1:6), he went another forty-nine years as Lord’s ‘junk yard dog,’ a sentinel placed at the doors of the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible to take the seat of the britches out of ‘godly’ scavengers who used the Book to make a living with when they didn’t BELIEVE it. May you enjoy partaking of ‘The Full Cup’ that God poured out for one very small, very base, very insignificant sinner, between 1921 and 1998.” Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, autobiography, The Full Cup, 429
Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, November 19, 1921 (saved: March 14,1949) – April 21, 2016
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalms 116:15