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Daniel Day Williams

1910 – 1973

American theologian

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Lived 1910 – 1973 (aged 62–63). Daniel Day Williams was an American theologian.

Daniel Day Williams (1910 – December, 1973) was a process theologian, professor, and author. He served on the joint faculty of the University of Chicago and the Chicago Theological Seminary, and later at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Williams was a member of the United Church of Christ.

Works God's Grace and Man's Hope, Harper & Row, 1949 (Rauschenbush Lectureship), reprint 1965, online edition What Present-Day Theologians Are Thinking, Harper & Brothers, 1952, revised ed. 1959, 3rd ed. 1967, Greenwood Publications revised ed. 1978: Basic Christian Affirmations, National Council of Churches, 1953 Christian Teaching and Christian Beliefs, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1955 The Advancement of Theological Education, with H. Richard Niebuhr and James Gustafson, Harper & Brothers, 1955, published online as The Purpose of the Church and its Ministry The Ministry in Historical Perspectives, edited with H. Richard Niebuhr, Harper & Brothers, 1956, online edition The Family Learns About Jesus, Pilgrim Press, 1960 The Minister and the Care of Souls, Harper, 1961, online edition The New Life in Christ: The meaning and experience of continuing redemption, 1965 Spirit and the Forms of Love, Harper & Row, 1968, University Press of America 1981 reprint, online edition The Andover Liberals;: A Study in American Theology, Octagon Press, 1970 Essays in Process Theology, edited with Perry D. LeFevre, Exploration Press 1985,

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1910
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Died
1973
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Chicago Theological Seminary

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American theologian

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Daniel Day Williams was born in 1910.

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Daniel Day Williams died in 1973.

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· Wikipedia: Daniel Day Williams

· Wikidata: Q5216939

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