George W. MacRae

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George Winsor MacRae SJ (born July 27, 1928 in Lynn ( Massachusetts ), † September 6, 1985 in Brighton (Massachusetts)) is an American , Roman Catholic theologian and university professor.

Life

Before MacRae entered the order of the Society of Jesus ( Societas Jesu , abbreviation: SJ) in 1948 , he first attended St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers , (Massachusetts) and Boston College . He received his Philosophiae Licentiatus in 1954 from the Université catholique de Louvain and his Magister Artium three years later, in 1957, from Johns Hopkins University .

In 1960, McRae became the priests ordained and taught following the Weston School of Theology , where he received his 1961 Licentiate of Sacred Theology received (STL); in 1966 he received his PhD from Cambridge University on studies of the New Testament and the history of religions . His dissertation dealt more closely with the relationship between Jewish apocalyptic thought and Gnostic literature.

As a New Testament scholar, he led a. a. Courses and seminars on Gnosticism, the Gospel of John , the Epistle to the Hebrews and the biblical roots of Roman Catholic theology.

The Nag Hammadi writings discovered in December 1945 and made available to research attracted his interest. In 1977 he took part in the translation and interpretation of the texts. He also worked on the standard version of the Bible to be revised. McRae worked with Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant scholars.

From 1954 to 1956 McRae taught at the Fairfield Preparatory School in Connecticut , from 1966 to 1973 at the Weston School of Theology in Massachusetts, and from 1973 to 1985 at Harvard Divinity School , where he was the first professor in the Charles Chauncey Stillman Foundation of Roman Catholic Theological Studies . From 1979 to 1980 he was rector of the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research , "Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research" in Tantur near Jerusalem . Back in the United States , he was appointed Dean of the Harvard Divinity School in 1985 . He was the founder and editor of the New Testament Abstracts magazine and served as the first Roman Catholic secretary for the Society of Biblical Literature from 1973 to 1976 .

MacRae died of complications from heart disease at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Boston. He also had a sister, Jean Melanson, and a brother, John D. MacRae.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Jewish. Background of the Gnostic Sophia Myth. Novum Testamentum (An International Quarterly for New Testament and Related Studies), Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 86-101 DOI: 10.2307 / 1560039
  • Invitation to John: a commentary on the Gospel of John with complete text from the Jerusalem Bible. Image Books, Garden City, New York 1978
  • Faith in the Word: the Fourth Gospel. Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago 1973

Web links

  • George W. MacRae (1928–1985), scholar [4]
  • HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. Found in: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, MacRae, George W. Papers, 1955–1985. [5]
  • Helmut Koester : In Memoriam George W. MacRae, SJ (July 27, 1928 - September 6, 1985). Harvard Theological Review (HTR) 78: 3-4 (1985) 233-35 [6]
  • Photograph by George Winsor MacRae [7]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George MacRae of Harvard dies, Special to the New York Times , Sept. 7, 1985 [1]
  2. ^ Helmut Koester : In Memoriam: George W. MacRae. The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 78, No. 3/4 (Jul-Oct, 1985), pp. 233-235
  3. ↑ Compare also Clan Macrae
  4. ↑ George W. MacRae: Studies in the New Testament and Gnosticism. Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene (Oregon) 2007, ISBN 978-1-55635-595-0 , p. 7 [2]
  5. ↑ Bibliography Harvard Divinity School Faculty Writings File [3]
personal data
SURNAME MacRae, George W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacRae, George Winsor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Roman Catholic theologian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1985
Place of death Brighton