George Huntston Williams

George Huntston Williams (also George Hunston Williams ; born April 7, 1914 in Huntsburg , Ohio ; † October 6, 2000 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was one of the most important Unitarian theologians of the 20th century.

Live and act

George H. Williams was Professor of Unitarian Theology at the Divinity School at Harvard University . He stood out particularly through his historical work. In addition to a history of the Divinity School (1954), which was founded by Unitarian theologians in 1826 and which later became one of the world's most famous theological schools, Williams mainly wrote the history of the so-called Radical Reformation and the history of the Polish Brothers , who also called themselves Socinians . Williams thus became the great developer of the Radical Reformation and the actor of the great Unitarian influence on the European-American intellectual and cultural history. He also served as the first chairman of the life rights organization Americans United for Life .

In 1953 Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1985, at the invitation of the German Unitarians , George H. Williams came to the first German scientific conference on Unitarianism research in Hamburg , where he gave a lecture on the topic of differences between Polish and Transylvanian-Hungarian Unitarianism and their causes .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carol Mason, Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2002, ISBN 978-0-8014-3920-9 , p. 140.
2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015

Works

• The Polish Brethren: Documentation of the History and Thought of Unitarianism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Diaspora 1601–1685. Scholars Press, 1980, ISBN 0-89130-343-X .
• The Radical Reformation , ISBN 0940474158 .
• Differences between Polish and Transylvanian-Hungarian Unitarianism and their causes. In: Wolfgang Deppert , Werner Erdt, Aart de Groot (eds.): The influence of the Unitarians on the European-American intellectual history. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1990, ISSN  0930-4118 , ISBN 3-631-41859-0 , pp. 33-57.