John McIntyre (theologian)
John McIntyre
Biography
McIntyre was born in
He was ordained as a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1941 and worked in Glen Orchy and Inishail as locum tenens (1941–43) and in Fenwick as minister (1943–45).
In 1946 he was appointed Hunter Baillie Professor of Theology at
In 1971 he was interim minister of the
In 1982 he succeeded Very Rev Andrew Beveridge Doig as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. From 1983 until 1987 he was convenor of the Church of Scotland Board of Education.[6]
In 1986 he was honoured with a Festschrift, Religious imagination, ed. James P. Mackey (Edinburgh University Press, 1986). Having taken the substantive degree of Doctor of Letters at Edinburgh, he was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Edinburgh (Doctor honoris causa), University of Glasgow (Doctor of Divinity), and the College of Wooster (Doctor of Humane Letters).[6][10] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1977. He was a Member of Council 1979–86 and Vice-President 1983–86.
He retired in 1996 and died at
Publications
- The shape of Christology: studies in the doctrine of the person of Christ (2nd edn, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998; 1st edn, London: SCM, 1966)
- The shape of pneumatology: studies in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997)
- The shape of soteriology: studies in the doctrine of the death of Christ (T&T Clark, 1992)
- Faith theology, and imagination (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1987)
- Prophet of penitence: our contemporary ancestor (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1972)
- The availability of Christ (Edinburgh: Scottish Church Society, 1962)
- On the love of God (London: Collins, 1962)
- The Christian doctrine of history (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1957)
- St. Anselm and his critics: a re-interpretation of the Cur Deus homo (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954)
- The Shape of Soteriology was recently studied in Eamonn Mulcahy, The Cause of Our Salvation: Soteriological Causality according to some Modern British Theologians, 1988–98 (Tesi Gregoriana Serie Teologia 140, Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2007), alongside Colin Gunton, The Actuality of Atonement: a Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1988), Vernon White, Atonement and Incarnation: an essay in Universalism and Particularity (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and Paul Fiddes, Past Event and Present Salvation: the Christian Idea of Atonement (London: Darton, Longman, & Todd, 1989).
References
- ^ a b Eamonn Mulcahy, The Cause of Our Salvation: Soteriological Causality according to some Modern British Theologians, 1988–98 (Tesi Gregoriana Serie Teologia 140, Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2007), p. 269.
- ^ a b New College Bulletin
- ^ McIntyre, John (1953). "St. Anselm and his critics: a re-interpretation of the "Cur Deus Homo" of St. Anselm".
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- ^ a b Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ a b c The Times
- ^ "No. 46421". The London Gazette. 3 December 1974. p. 12169.
- ^ "No. 46572". The London Gazette. 13 May 1975. p. 6195.
- ^ Who Was Who? (2007), s.v. 'McIntyre, John'
- ^ "Royal Society of Edinburgh obituary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
External links
- David Fergusson, 'The Very Rev Professor John McIntyre' (Obituary) The Independent (21 January 2006)
- 'Very Rev Prof John McIntyre' (Obituary), Telegraph.co.uk (22 December 2005)
- 'Very Rev. Prof. John McIntyre', The Gazetteer for Scotland
- David Fergusson, 'Very Rev Professor John McIntyre' (Royal Society of Edinburgh obituary)
- 'The Very Rev Professor John McIntyre' (Obituary) The Times (30 December 2005)
- New College Bulletin: 160 Years
- Photograph, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland website