Apple-Newton Family of North Carolina Archives:
The Posthumous Online Home of Dr. Robert Lee Newton and Winnie Apple Newton

Robert Lee Newton was born in Durham, North Carolina on May 20, 1925. He and his brother Edward (“Ed”) grew up as southern city boys in a comfortable Christian home. Robert Lee often said he knew he wanted to be a “preacher” from an early age.

He graduated from Duke University in the 1940s after completing his course work at a rapid pace as was deemed necessary during the World War II years. There he met Winnie, who was earning her nursing cap at Duke, and they married soon thereafter. He earned his Master’s of Theology from Yale Divinity School in 1945 and a Doctorate of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary in the late 1960s.

He was the father of four children with Winnie and a grandfather of six. He was an active theologically-focused Baptist minister who began his career as pastor of Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh. He was a professor and Chaplain at Campbell College in Buies Creek, NC, the Director of Christian Family Life for the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, and a prominent member of First Baptist Church in Raleigh.

He died in May 2001 from a stroke at the age of 76.

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Pulpit Spotlight

Angel and Beast: The Doctrine of Man (1978)
[CC BY-ND 4.0 International]

A sermon by Dr. Robert Lee Newton delivered at First Baptist Church in Blowing Rock, NC, circa April of 1978 on the topic of The Doctrine of Man and the metaphysical paradoxes of being human.