Inspirational Quotes by John Macquarrie (British Theologian)

The Rev. John Macquarrie (1919– 2007) was a Scottish-born British theologian, philosopher, and Anglican priest. He is noted for synthesizing existential philosophy with orthodox Christian thought and creating a structural and systematic Christian theology analysis.

Born in Renfrew, Scotland, into a devout Presbyterian family, Macquarrie studied philosophy and divinity at the University of Glasgow. Ordained in 1945, he was an army chaplain (1945–48,) coordinating the pastoral care of German prisoners of war in Egypt. After serving as parish minister at St Ninian’s, Brechin, Scotland (1948–53,) he returned to Glasgow and earned a PhD (1954.) He taught at Glasgow (1954–62) and became a systematic theology professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Macquarrie switched from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland to the Episcopal Church, and, in 1965, he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He was a Professor of Divinity of Christ Church, Oxford (1970–86) and Professor of Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana.

Macquarrie was the author of Twentieth Century Religious Thought: The Frontiers of Philosophy and Theology (1963; rev. 1981,) Studies in Christian Existentialism (1965,) Principles of Christian Theology (1966,) and Jesus Christ in Modern Thought (1991.)

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