George Huntston Williams
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1914 – 2000
Who was George Huntston Williams?
George Huntston Williams was an American professor of Unitarian theology and historian of the Socinian movement.
Williams' father was a Unitarian minister in Ohio. Williams studied at St. Lawrence University, and Meadville Theological School. After studies in Paris and Strasbourg he became assistant minister of a Unitarian church in Rockford, Illinois, where he married. From 1941 he taught church history at the Unitarian affiliated Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, CA, and at the nearby Pacific School of Religion, while studying for his Th.D. completed at Union Theological Seminary, New York. From 1947 he taught at Harvard Divinity School. In 1981 he was appointed to the Hollis Chair of Divinity. He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius.
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- Born
- Apr 7, 1914
Huntsburg Township - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- St. Lawrence University
( - 1936) - Bachelor of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School
( - 1939) - Doctor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Theology
( - 1946)
- St. Lawrence University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
( - 2000/10/06)
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Oct 6, 2000
Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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