George Huntston Williams
American professor and historian of Christianity (1914–2000)
George Huntston Williams
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1914-04-07
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April 7, 1914
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Died | October 6, 2000 (2000-10-06) (aged 86) |
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Marjorie Derr
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1941
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Influences | James Luther Adams |
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Discipline | History of Christianity |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Main interests | Nontrinitarianism , Socinianism , Unitarianism |
Notable works | The Radical Reformation (1962–1995) |
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George Huntston Williams (April 7, 1914, in Huntsburg – October 6, 2000) was an American academic, historian of Christianity , and professor of Nontrinitarian Christian theology . His works focused on the historical research of Nontrinitarian Christian movements that emerged during the Protestant Reformation , primarily Socinianism and Unitarianism .
Biography
Williams' father was a Unitarian minister in Ohio . Williams studied at St. Lawrence University (graduated 1936) and Meadville Theological School (graduated 1939). After his academic studies in history of Christianity at the European universities of Paris and Strasbourg , he returned to the United States and became assistant minister of a Unitarian church in Rockford, Illinois , where he married his wife Marjorie Derr in 1941.
From 1941 onwards, he taught Church history at the Unitarian-affiliated Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California , and at the nearby Pacific School of Religion , while studying for his Th.D. completed at Union Theological Seminary, New York (1946). From 1947 he taught at Harvard Divinity School , being appointed Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1956 to 1963.
In 1981 he was appointed to the Hollis Chair of Divinity . [1] [2] [3] He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius . As an anti-abortion activist , he became the first chairman of the board of Americans United for Life . [4]
Works
- Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers: Documents Illustrative of the Radical Reformation, 1957
- The Polish Brethren : Documentation of the History and Thought of Unitarianism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Diaspora 1601-1685 , Scholars Press, 1980, ISBN 0-89130-343-X .
- The Radical Reformation , 1962 ISBN 0-940474-15-8 .
- Unterschiede zwischen dem polnischen und dem siebenbürgisch-ungarischen Unitarismus und ihre Ursachen, in: Wolfgang Deppert/Werner Erdt/Aart de Groot (Hrsg.): Der Einfluß der Unitarier auf die europäisch-amerikanische Geistesgeschichte , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York/Paris 1990, ISSN 0930-4118, ISBN 3-631-41859-0 , S. 33-57.
- Article The Attitude of Liberals in New England toward Non-Christian Religions, 1784–1885, Crane Review 9.
References
- ↑ Memorial Minute for George H. Williams. Harvard Gazette. March 20, 2003. Accessed September 8, 2021.
- ↑ "George Huntston Williams: Historian of the Christian Church" . Archived from the original on 2011-01-01 . Retrieved 2010-11-14 .
- ↑ "Towards a Complete Bibliography of the Writings of George Huntston Williams". The Harvard Theological Review . 67 (2): 139–153. 1974. doi : 10.1017/S0017816000003229 . JSTOR 1509213 . S2CID 248818980 .
- ↑ Carol Mason: Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2002, ISBN 978-0-8014-3920-9 , page 140.
External links
- A collection of papers on anti-abortion organizations in the United States and abortion issues by George Huntston Williams is in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
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Hollis Chair of Divinity
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