John T. McNeill papers, circa 1904 -- 2000

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Series 3: Research, circa 1904 -- 2000

This series is open for research.

4.25 linear feet; 4.25 linear feet; 11 boxes

This series contains research materials, including material related to seminars, courses, conferences, lectures, and presentations on topics ranging from Calvinist studies and theology, to church history in Europe. This series also contains the autobiography of John T. McNeill, completed by his son William H. McNeill, titled "Grandfather Stories." This book was not published but was circulated amongst the McNeill family, and contains the fullest account of McNeill's life and family history, including assessments of his scholarly purpose and achievements.

This series is arranged roughly chronologically.



Box 18 Research, circa 1904 -- 1939

Vetter, "Relations between England and Zurich during the Reformation", 1904; Missionary expansion, 1913, 1930s; Egyptian hermit monks, 1918; Knox College, 1920s; "Religious toleration", 1922; Church union in Canada, 1922-1926; Research, 1928



Box 19 Research, circa 1930 -- 1959

Writings, 1930s; Ministry, 1930s; "Feudalism and the Church", 1930s; Cistercians, 1930s; John Calvin, 1930s; Franciscans, 1930s (?); Misc. notes, 1930s (?); Various writings, 1930s-1950s; "18th C", 1931 (?); Elizabeth and Roman Catholicism, 1931; "English Beginnings", 1931, 1935; Christianity and Civilization, 1933; Early Church History, 1935; Various writings, 1935; Brethren of the Common Life, 1936 (?); "Aspects of the English Reformation", 1936, 1950, 1952; Various writings (including "The Catholic Principle in Protestantism" and "Protestantism and Corporate Religion"), 1937 onwards; "John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress", 1937; Leaders of Western Progress, 1938; "The Emergence of Conciliarism", 1938; "Luther at Aldersgate", 1939



Box 20 Research, circa 1930 -- 1969

Book reviews. 1930s-1960s; Misc. journal articles, 1930s-1960s



Box 21 Research, circa 1940 -- 1949

Notes on Friedrich Schleiermacher, circa 1940; Thomas Chalmers, 1940s; Notes and readings, 1940s; "The Emergence of Conciliarism", circa 1942; Notes, 1942; "The Ethical Note in Anglican Preaching" and "The Church in the Thought of Reformed Theologians of the Sixteenth Century", 1942 ; "Intellectual History of Europe in the 17th Century" and other notes, circa 1943; Conciliarism, 1943; John Amos Comenius, 1944; Renaissance seminar, 1946-1947; "Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace", 1943; "Religion and Peace", 1944; Oliver Cromwell, 1946 (?); "Presbyterianism and Elizabeth", 1949 (?); Jesuits, Pascal, 1949



Box 22 Research, circa 1950 -- 1962

Various writings, 1950s; Richard A. Stauffer writings, 1950s ; Calvin and the Word of God, 1950s ; Luther, 1950s ; Levellers, 1950 (?) ; Notes, 1951 ; Papacy, 1951 (?); The Encyclopedia Americana, 1953 and 1961 ; Mystics, 1954 (?); Notes on Blaise Pascal, 1954; The Thirkield-Jones Lectures, 1955; Robert Hastings Nichols, 1955; Edwards, 1955 ; Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, 1955; Book review (1956) and misc. notes (undated); Introduction to Calvin's Institutes, 1957; Photostats of Calvin's Institutes, 1957; Foundation for Reformation Research, 1959-1962



Box 23 Research, circa 1938 -- 1969

Various writings, 1960s, 1938, 1969; The American Waldensian Society, 1961; The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1963-1964; Chapter revisions for The Ecumenical Revival, 1963; "Alexander Alesius", 1963; Dictionary of Theology, 1963-1964; Calvinism and the Political Order, 1963-1965; Research—Battles to McNeill, also Calvin's Commentary on Seneca's De Clementia, 1965, 1963-1965



Box 24 Research, 1970 -- 1973

Relevance of Conciliation, 1970; "Antecedents and Beginnings of English Puritanism", 1971; "John Calvin Doctor Ecclesiae", 1973; Bulletins and newsletters, circa 1806-1973; Presbyterian Outlook, 1973



Box 25 Research, circa 1900 -- 1979

Beginning of the Reformation in Hungary (undated); Reformation in Italy (undated); Early notes on Reading (undated); Misc. notes (undated); Calvin's theology (undated); "The Early Quakers" (undated); Notes on Huss (undated; Various writings (including on Wittenberg) (undated); "Scandinavian lands" (undated); "Changing Frontiers" (undated); Guizot (undated); Monasteries (?) (undated); Eastern Orthodox Movement (undated); Dominicans (undated; Historical method (undated); "Reform measures" (undated); "The Reformation's Debt to the Renaissance" (undated); "Denominations of Dissenters" (undated); Latin Advocates, Bernardino (undated); "Puritanism to 1553" (undated); "Migration and Conversion" (undated); Rise of the Papacy (undated); Roger Williams (undated); Notes on Desiderius Erasmus (undated); Misc. notes (undated); Wessel Gansfort (undated); Benedictine to Cluny (undated); Phillips Brooks (undated); "Bucer" (undated); "Arminius" (undated)



Box 26 Research, circa 1900 -- 1979

John Eliot (undated); Early Monasticism (undated); History of Ministry (undated); "Freedom of Religion and Conscience in a Democracy" (undated); James: Varieties of Experience (undated); Gerard Groote (undated); Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (undated); Scottish moderates (undated); Netherlands (undated); "The Philosophical Movement" (undated); Notes (undated); Luther's Controversies (undated); Oberlin (undated); Richard Baxter (undated); Autobiographical references in Calvin's Institutes (undated); Isaac Casaubon (undated); Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises (undated); "Calixtus" (undated); Notes on the Restoration (undated); "Heresy and Inquisition" (undated); Charles Augustus Briggs (undated); Adolf von Harnack (undated); "The Pioneers of the Reform" (undated); "Consequences of the Reformation" (notebook, undated); Clergy preaching (undated); Various writings (undated); Comment on Dr. Harbison's paper on Calvin (undated); Gerson (undated); Notes (undated); S. Kierkegaard (undated)



Box 27 Research, circa 1900 -- 1979

Research (undated); Biographies (undated); Elizabeth (undated); The Puritans in Elizabeth's reign (undated); Donne (undated); Medieval Christianity readings (undated); Medieval (undated); Photostats of Luther's Epistles to Romans (undated); Medieval Layman's religion (undated)



Box 39 Autobiography, circa 2000

Autobiography of John T. McNeill, completed by his son William H. McNeill, titled "Grandfather Stories." This book was not published but was circulated amongst the McNeill family, and contains the fullest account of McNeill's life and family history, including assessments of his scholarly purpose and achievements.