George Huntston Williams
George Huntston Williams | |
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| Born | April 7, 1914 |
| Died | October 6, 2000 (aged 86) |
| Spouse |
Marjorie Derr (m. 1941) |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | James Luther Adams |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History of Christianity |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Main interests | Nontrinitarianism, Socinianism, Unitarianism |
| Notable works | The Radical Reformation (1962-1995) |
George Huntston Williams (April 7, 1914, in
Biography
George Pease Williams was born in 1914.[1] His father David Rhys Williams was a Unitarian minister who signed the Humanist Manifesto,[2] while his grandparents were Congregationalists.
Williams changed his middle name as a young man and chose the name of his village, Huntsburg, Ohio.
From 1941 onwards, he taught
In 1962 he was one of several official Protestant observers who attended the sessions of the
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1953.[3]
In 1981 he was appointed to the
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.
Family
Williams was married to Marjorie Derr for 59 years and they had four children.[7]
References
- ^ a b First Things website, ‘’A Holy Calling: To Keep Truth Alive’’
- ^ a b Harvard Square Library website, Biography of George Huntston Williams
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences website, profile page
- ^ Memorial Minute for George H. Williams. Harvard Gazette. March 20, 2003. Accessed September 30, 2023.
- ^ "George Huntston Williams: Historian of the Christian Church". Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-3920-9, page 140.
- ^ Harvard University, Memorial Minute dated March 2003
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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