George Huntston Williams

George Huntston Williams (April 7, 1914, in Huntsburg – October 6, 2000) was an American academic, historian of Christianity, and professor of nontrinitarian Christian theology. His works focused on the historical research of nontrinitarian Christian movements that emerged during the Protestant Reformation, primarily Socinianism and Unitarianism.

Biography George Pease Williams was born in 1914. His father David Rhys Williams was a Unitarian minister who signed the Humanist Manifesto, while his grandparents were Congregationalists.

Williams changed his middle name as a young man and chose the name of his village, Huntsburg, Ohio.

In 1981 he was appointed to the Hollis Chair of Divinity. He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius. As an anti-abortion activist, he became the first chairman of the board of Americans United for Life.

A Festschrift was published in his honor in 1999 titled The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University. Contributors included Jaroslav Pelikan, Timothy George and Harold O. J. Brown, among others.

Works The Norman Anonymous of 1100 A.D.: Toward the Identification and Evaluation of the So-Called Anonymous of York, 1951 Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers: Documents Illustrative of the Radical Reformation, 1957 The Radical Reformation, 1962 . The Polish Brethren: Documentation of the History and Thought of Unitarianism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Diaspora 1601-1685, Scholars Press, 1980. The Mind of John Paul II: Origins of His Thought and Action, Seabury, 1981. Unterschiede zwischen dem polnischen und dem siebenbürgisch-ungarischen Unitarismus und ihre Ursachen, in: Wolfgang Deppert/Werner Erdt/Aart de Groot (Hrsg.): Der Einfluß der Unitarier auf die europäisch-amerikanische Geistesgeschichte, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York/Paris 1990, ISSN 0930-4118, , S. 33-57. Article The Attitude of Liberals in New England toward Non-Christian Religions, 1784-1885, Crane Review 9.

Family Williams was married to Marjorie Derr for 59 years and they had four children.