William R. Hutchison
William R. Hutchison (born May 21, 1930 in San Francisco , † December 16, 2005 in Boston ) was an American church historian.
Hutchison's father, Ralph Cooper Hutchison, was a Presbyterian pastor and founder of the American University in what is now Iran. After finishing school, Hutchison studied at Oxford University . Hutchison received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford University and his PhD from Yale University . In the following years, Hutchison received employment at Yale University , Hunter College , the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the American University in Persia before moving to Harvard University in 1968 , where he taught at Harvard Divinity School .
In 1952, Hutchison married Virginia Quay. They had four children.
Works
- The Transcendentalist Ministers: Church Reform in the New England Renaissance (1959)
- The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism (1976)
- Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal (2003)
Hutchison was also the editor or co-editor of four other books:
- American Protestant Thought: The Liberal Era (1968)
- Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America, 1900-1960 (1989)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hutchison, William R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2005 |
| Place of death | Boston |