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John Baillie (theologian)

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John Baillie CH (26 March 1886, Gairloch ? 29 September 1960, Edinburgh) was a Scottish theologian, a Church of Scotland minister and brother of theologian Donald Macpherson Baillie.Raised in the Calvinist tradition, Baillie studied at Edinburgh University, Jena and Marburg, and then taught in Canada and the United States. He was professor at Edinburgh University for twenty years. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1943.Son of Free Church Minister John Baillie, he was born in the Free Church Manse in Gairloch, Wester Ross, on 26 March 1886. A leading theologian, he held academic posts in the UK, USA and Canada. His brother Donald Macpherson Baillie was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of St. Andrews and his other brother Peter Baillie served as a missionary doctor at Jalna, India.He met Florence Jewel Fowler while he was in France during the First World War. They married at Leamington Spa in 1919. Their only child, Ian Fowler Baillie, was born in 1921.Baillie wrote A Diary of Private Prayer (1936), regarded as a devotional classic. But his most important contribution to theology was an exploration of the relationship between the knowledge of God to spiritual and moral experience.Shortly after his death, the series of Gifford Lectures he had prepared for the 1961-2 academic year was read by John McIntyre and Thomas Torrance and published by Oxford university Press.

Fecha de nacimiento 1886-03-26

Año de nacimiento 1886

Fecha de defunción 1960-09-29

Año de defunción 1960