"The Legacy of R. A. Torrey (1856-1928): Radical Evangelicalism in the Early 20th Century" was a one-day scholarly conference held at Biola on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003. It was planned and executed by Fred Sanders and paid for by the Torrey Honors Institute.

The publicity flyer for the conference said, "Historian George Marsden has called him “one of the principal architects of fundamentalist thought,” but 75 years after his death, R. A. Torrey’s impact on American Christianity has not yet been fully explored. Carrying on the work of D. L. Moody, Torrey circled the world preaching the gospel and revival, wrote dozens of books, edited The Fundamentals, and served as superintendent of Moody Bible Institute and dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles."

Papers and Presenters

• “How He Worked for Christ: The Ministries of R. A. Torrey”

  Fred Sanders, Biola University

• “A Feast of Fragments: The Papers of R. A. Torrey”
  Wayne Weber, presenting a paper by Robert Shuster, Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College
• “The Education of R. A. Torrey”
  Kermit Staggers, University of Sioux Falls
• "R. A. Torrey and the Modern(ist) Sources of Radical Evangelicalism”
  Tim Gloege, University of Notre Dame
• "R. A. Torrey as Christian Educator”
  Paul Spears, Biola University
• “Evil Spirits Have Come In: Torrey and the Fundamentalist Response to Pentecostalism”
  William Svelmoe, St. Mary’s College
• "Torrey’s Bible Study Methods and the Bible Institute Movement”
  Joseph Gorra, Talbot School of Theology
• "Fishing for Men: R. A. Torrey’s Influence on Evangelist Percy Crawford”
  Dan Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• “R. A. Torrey in the Fertile Soil of Faith: Non-Mainstream Religious Leadership in Early 20th-Century Southern California”
  Philip Goff, Indiana University