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Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader)

 Person

Found in 306 Collections and/or Records:

Systematic Theology (senior), c1910

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/16
Scope and Contents

A booklet of notes taken at 49 lectures on Systematic Theology at New College.

Dates: c1910

Taken or sent home from America, summer 1945, 1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/21
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items for the period of and around John Baillie's visit to the United States immediately at the end of the Second World War and including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, publishers, Reinhold Niebuhr and Mathew Willard Lampe (State University of Iowa).

Dates: 1945

Testament written 3 June 1936 by John Baillie (1886-1960), Professor of Divinity, in favour of Ursula Mary Niebuhr (1907-1997)

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1378
Scope and Contents The manuscript testimonial (2-sided letter) dated 3 June 1936 and signed by Professor John Baillie was found alongside some more recent photocopies of other material in a book (unnamed in a lot of 19 titles) purchased by Edinburgh University Library. The testimonial talks of Mrs. Niebuhr's maturity of scholarship, the 'soundness of her judgement' and 'the quick intuitive character of her mind'. The other photocopies are: 1 letter from John Baillie to 'My dear Bishop' dated 29 May 1939, in...
Dates: 1936-2012

The Bedmakers' Sermon, undated

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Identifier: BAI 1/8/1/1
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Article examining the existence of God from different theological and philosophical perspectives.

Dates: undated

The Best Books on the Philosophy of Religion, c1940

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Identifier: BAI 1/8/1/10
Scope and Contents

Article by John Baillie examining various texts, historical and more contemporary, including those by Plato, St Thomas Acquinas, John Calvin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frederick Robert Tennant and Karl Barth.

Dates: c1940

The Christian Hope and its Rivals, 1953

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Identifier: BAI 1/6/4
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Broadcast by John Baillie examining Christianity in relation to secularist ideas (including those of Karl Marx).

Dates: 1953

The Church and Civil Order, c1940-c1955

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Identifier: BAI 1/13/12
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2 typescripts of The Church and Civil Order.

Dates: c1940-c1955

The Distinction between Knowledge and Belief historically and critically considered, c1910

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/8
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at New College, Edinburgh, examining the nature of knowledge and belief, and how these have changed over time.

Dates: c1910

The Figurative Language of Jesus in its significance for the Investigation of Inner Life, by Heinrich Weinel, c1908

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/21
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh or New College, introducing and there after containing the inaugural address by Heinrich Weinel on being appointed lecturer at the University of Bonn in 1900.

Dates: c1908

The Freedom of the Will, c1908

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/23
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh or New College, examining the metaphysical problem of whether will is free.

Dates: c1908