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William Stanford Reid (13 September 1913 – 28 December 1996), usually cited as W. Stanford Reid, was a professor of history at
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and the
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and a
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minister. He held a
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degree from the
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(1941). He also had a divinity degree from
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, studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.


Notes

He was the son of Rev. William Dunn Reid and Daisy Sanford. His brother was Stewart Reid - Montreal, Quebec. His parents were Joseph Reid b. 1838 and Janet Dunn b. 1863. His grandparents were some of the first Scottish settlers in the Eastern Townships of Quebec arriving in the late 1820s. His grandparents were William Reid and Jean Gould and Andrew Dunn and Elisabeth Oliver.A Genealogy of the Reid Family by W.D. Reid, 1938


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Further reading


"W. Stanford Reid -- A Classic Case of Exclusion"
A. Donald Macleod Alistair Donald Macleod (born 1938) is a former research professor of church history at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto. Macleod was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at McGill University, Harvard University, and W ...
. Fall 1999 Channels, Vol. 16 No. 1.
''W. Stanford Reid: an evangelical Calvinist in the academy''
A. Donald Macleod Alistair Donald Macleod (born 1938) is a former research professor of church history at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto. Macleod was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at McGill University, Harvard University, and W ...
. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004. .
"Lutheranism In The Scottish Reformation"
W. Stanford Reid.
Westminster Theological Journal ''Westminster Theological Journal'' is an evangelical theological journal published by Westminster Theological Seminary and edited by Vern Poythress Vern Sheridan Poythress (born 1946) is an American philosopher, theologian, New Testament schol ...
. Vol.7 No.2. May 1945.
"The Historical Development of Christian Scientific Presuppositions"
W. Stanford Reid. '' JASA''. Vol.27 (June 1975): 69–75.
"Science and Miracle: Another Approach"
W. Stanford Reid. '' JASA''. Vol.31 (September 1979): 171–172.
Reid's response to "Original Sin as Natural Evil"
(article by
Richard H. Bube Richard H. Bube (August 10, 1927 – June 9, 2018) was an American scientist. Academic career Bube received his B.S. in physics from Brown University in 1946 and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) in physics from Princeton University.Richard H. Bube ...
). '' JASA''. Vol.27 (December 1975):171-180.


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Reid's Worldcat identity
1913 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Presbyterian ministers Calvinist and Reformed scholars Canadian evangelicals Canadian historians of religion Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian Presbyterian ministers Evangelical pastors Historians of Christianity McGill University faculty University of Guelph faculty University of Pennsylvania alumni Westminster Theological Seminary alumni {{Canada-historian-stub