John Thomas McNeill (28 July 1885,
Elmsdale, Prince Edward Island
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History
The Name
When the Great Western Road and Dock Road were created, Elmsdale was born. Beginning in 1841, the farms along Dock Road were surveye ...
- 2 February 1975,
Chicago) was a Canadian church historian.
He was the son of William Cavendish McNeill (1849-1928). He was educated at
Prince of Wales College
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,
McGill University,
New College, Edinburgh,
Halle University
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and
the University of Chicago. In 1920 he was awarded a doctorate from the latter, where he served on the faculty until 1944. In 1922 he was awarded the
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his work ''The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity''.
As of 1951, he was Auburn Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary. He was the father of
William H. McNeill, and grandfather of
J.R. McNeill, both leading historians and presidents of the
American Historical Association. He was also an ordained
Presbyterian minister.
He served alongside of
John Baillie and Henry P. Van Dusen as a general editor of th
Library of Christian Classicsseries, which includes modern translations of the writings of Christian theologians and thinkers such as
Aquinas,
Augustine,
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Names
* Calvin (given name)
** Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
* Calvin (surname)
** Particularly John Calvin, theologian
Places
In the United States
* Calvin, Arkansas, a hamlet
* Calvin T ...
,
Luther and other
reformers
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and early
church fathers
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. McNeill himself was the chief editor of the series' release of John Calvin's
Institutes of the Christian Religion i
The fresh translation in more contemporary English based on his extensive knowledge of Patristics and Classical literature was done by Ford Lewis Battles at McNeill’s personal request _encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1559565933 two volumes The production of this most recent English translation (released in 1960) of the French Reformer's "magnum opus" was the work of several Latin scholars and theologians on both sides of the Atlantac.
Charles Partee called him "the doyen of American Calvin scholars".
[Charles Partee, ''The Theology of John Calvin'' (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), p. 2, n.]
Works
*''A History of the Cure of Souls'' (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951).
*''The History and Character of Calvinism'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954).
*''The Celtic Churches: A History A.D. 200 to 1200'' (University of Chicago Press, 1974).
*''The Library of Christian Classics'' (
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).
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1885 births
1975 deaths
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian Presbyterian ministers
20th-century Canadian historians
McGill University alumni
Presidents of the American Society of Church History