About Willard G. Oxtoby
Lived 1933 – 2003 (aged 69). Willard G. Oxtoby was an American religious studies scholar and university teacher.
Willard Gurdon Oxtoby (July 29, 1933 – March 6, 2003) was an American theologian who studied and taught comparative religion, and was the founding director of the Graduate Centre for Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. into a family of scholars. Both his father and grandfather were ministers and teachers of the Old Testament,
Oxtoby died of colon cancer in Toronto on March 6, 2003.
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Who was Willard G. Oxtoby?
American religion scholar (1933-2003)
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Willard G. Oxtoby was born on 29 July 1933 in Kentfield.
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Willard G. Oxtoby died on 6 March 2003.
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Willard G. Oxtoby was a religious studies scholar and university teacher.
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Willard G. Oxtoby was American.
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