William Carey Taylor (September 30, 1886 in

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– March 18, 1971) was an English

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minister and missionary for a longtime in

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, and a Professor of Greek New Testament and related subjects in the Baptist Theological Seminary of

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Life

While living in Lousville, Kentucky, he belonged to Walnut Street Baptist Church. He received his B.A. degree from Bethel College and completed his Th.M. and Th.D. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. Taylor was a Southern Baptist missionary in Brazil by the

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of the

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for 41 years (1915 to 1956). He worked primarily as an educator in Brazil, serving as President and Dean of the North Brazil Seminary in Recife, Brazil. After leaving the mission field in Brazil, he resided in Louisville, Kentucky. Taylor died at the age of 84 at his home at the Berkeley Hotel, 664 S. Fourth.

Works

He was author of 28 books on theology. * ** * ** *

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, William Carey 1886 births 1971 deaths Evangelicalism in Brazil People from Maysville, Kentucky Southern Baptists Baptist missionaries in Brazil